The UN is largely ineffective due to the security council. The fact that one country can effectively shut down a vote is the opposite of the Federation of Planets.

Now that I think of it, of course the UN is ineffectual. It's set up like the US system of legislature. A powerful smaller body that is largely disproportionate to the rest of the world fully controls everything the UN does.

Its a failed experiment. It had no real backing and thus has no real power.

Because all the agressor countries have veto power on anything, aka it's a useless organisation.

I assume the article covers that.

Vijay Prashad:

Such texts are boring not because of their content but because of how they are written. The style of these texts is almost intended to prevent the reader from getting anything out of them. It’s believed that just by publishing these manuals and reports they meet a certain standard of democracy. But what this kind of writing does is to turn people away from reading. Such writing is, therefore, antidemocratic.

The UN is struggling financially and this report makes the claim that there’s too many meetings and reports that no one reads. They said their most popular reports get 5000 downloads and 1 in 6 reports gets less than 1000 downloads.

UN something, something…

This is the first NotTheOnion-style headline I've seen in a looooong time that actually made me laugh. I miss when NotTheOnion wasn't a constant reminder of the abysmal state of the world.