"The Mother of All Coalitions"

UNITED NATIONS - At the second conference of the Organisation for Promoting Global Civilisation (OPGC) this month, participants from around the world argued that the United Nations is effectively hamstrung because it lacks political or military authority, and cannot even generate its own revenues.

Even as the U.N. is called on to tackle enormous problems like ethnic, state and religious conflicts and sustainable use of natural resources, the organisation reflects the imbalance of power that exists between powerful and weak nations, they say.

According to the OPGC, in a rapidly globalising world, people need to rethink the meaning of terms like "nation", "race", "religion" and "culture".

The brainchild of Zhang Shaohua, an academic at the International Natural Science and Social Science Academy and founder of the OPGC, the idea is to create a federal system with an assembly of individual states and a central government.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1130-02.htm

The mother of all coalitions against Cheney-Bush.

Google comes up empty on this organisation, except for a bunch of links with the same text to a page (opgc.org) that no longer exists.