Archiv für den Tag: 24. September 2025

laStaempfli, Regula Staempfli on why there are good reasons the USA should leave the UN. 24.9.2025. “The UN, born out of WWII to prevent another Holocaust, has mutated into an institution the legitimizes dictatorships and undermines democracies.”Die UNO, einst als Traum der Völkerverständigung gegründet, ist zur Bühne autoritärer Codes geworden – statt universaler Menschenrechte dominiert die Tyrannei der Mehrheit.

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laStaempfli, Regula Staempfli on why there are good reasons the USA should leave the UN. 24.9.2025. "The UN, born out of WWII to prevent another Holocaust, has mutated into an institution the legitimizes dictatorships and undermines democracies."Die UNO, einst als Traum der Völkerverständigung gegründet, ist zur Bühne autoritärer Codes geworden – statt universaler Menschenrechte dominiert die Tyrannei der Mehrheit.
Die UNO wird von westlichen Kriegen als Friedensorganisation behandelt: Das ist totalitäre Fiktion im Sinne eines radikalen Wirklichkeitsverlustes. Die UNO hat sich von den Vereinten Nationen zum Gremium der Autokratien & Diktaturen entwickelt. Diese Geschichte wird in unseren Medien aber kaum erzählt. Auch laStaempfli musste lernen, dass ihre geliebte UNO – und ihr Kampf für die Mitgliedschaft der Schweiz zu diesem Gremium 1985 – unter völlig falschen Narrativen geschah.

Die Berichterstattung von SRF nach dem Auftritt des gewählten Präsidenten Donald Trump wird den Problemen, die die Vereinten Nationen tatsächlich haben, nicht gerecht. Deshalb hier die wichtigsten Kritikpunkte an der UNO, den Vereinten Nationen, copyright Regula Staempfli, 24. September 2025.

Systemic bias against Israel
The UN has passed more condemnations against Israel than against all authoritarian regimes combined — a grotesque distortion that undermines its credibility.

Domination by dictatorships
Autocracies (China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, etc.) chair human rights councils and disarmament committees, turning watchdog institutions into shields for abusers.

Erosion of US sovereignty
Critics argue that binding UN treaties and rulings increasingly override democratic decisions taken within the US, weakening constitutional self-rule.

Ineffectiveness in preventing wars
From Rwanda to Syria, Sudan to Ukraine, the UN repeatedly failed to stop genocides or wars — yet still claims authority as a peacekeeper.

Weaponization of “international law”
Legal concepts like “genocide” or “apartheid” are increasingly used as political cudgels against democracies, while real mass atrocities in China, North Korea, or Iran are ignored.

Financial burden
The US funds roughly 22% of the UN’s core budget (billions annually), effectively subsidizing hostile regimes that vote against it in the General Assembly.

Anti-democratic equal vote principle
In the General Assembly, the US has the same vote as microstates or dictatorships, meaning 130+ regimes that oppress their citizens can consistently outvote democracies.

Entrenchment of bureaucracy
The UN has become a sprawling self-referential machine — over 40,000 employees, endless conferences, and agencies — often focused more on institutional survival than outcomes.

Corruption scandals
From the “Oil for Food” program in Iraq to systematic sexual abuse by peacekeepers, the UN’s track record is tainted by corruption and impunity.

Foreign Bodies – “Designing Politics, the Politics of Design” by laStaempfli. An insight into a past programme by the political philosopher Regula Staempfli – at the Jan Van Eyck Academy.

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Regula Staempfli in Maastricht on Foreign Bodies: An early PhD-Programme on algorithmic categories.

Back in February 2015, laStaempfli was invited to contribute to the Foreign Bodies residency at the Van Eyck Academy – a space where philosophy, design, and global health policy came together. It was a unique moment: artists, researchers, and thinkers gathering to ask how public health policies are shaped, whose voices matter, and how bodies – especially women’s bodies – are coded as capital, charity, or “problem.” As political philosopher and lecturer, Regula Staempfli brought her work on democratic theory, bioethics, and media codes into dialogue with PhD candidates in public health. We spoke about design as political communication, about the optics of global health, and about the way women and children are endlessly instrumentalized in policy language. laStaempfli argued then – and I stand by it today – that “we don’t see things how they are, we see them how we are.”

The event was part lecture, part conversation, and very much in the spirit of laStaempflis ongoing practice: to connect theory with lived reality, to question the codes behind our institutions, and to insist that democracy depends on who counts and who is counted.

Below you find the original event text from Foreign Bodies, Van Eyck Academy (2015)

On Friday 27 of February Foreign Bodies welcomes Dr. Regula Staempfli.

Dr. Regula Staempfli (BE) works as a political philosopher and lecturer in Germany, France and Switzerland (Design2Context, MAZ, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, SIPB, Institute for European IEW, Frauenseminar Bodensee, EHESS Paris etc.) teaching in German, English and French. She is the author of many textbooks and various scientific articles dealing, among other issues, with democratic theory, European political decision making, women’s history, design, political communications and political philosophy. She has written extensively about bioethics and policies – working along the idea of people becoming living coins (f.e.: women don’t have capital but are in fact capital). And in art: We don’t see things how they are, we see them how we are.

Regula Staempfli will act as research advisor to the resident and participants in a conversation grounded in a dialogue started via email over the month. We will delve into questions of the optics of public health policy, whose voices are included in collaboration, and the implications of charity’s emphasis on ‘women and children.’Staempfli will offer a short presentation on her practice and current projects.

For more information visit: http://foreign-bodies.com/ see https://www.janvaneyck.nl/calendar/foreign-bodies