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And you won't even give me a link to the Progressive Manifesto?
Here's one:
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm
Pay attention to the first two paragraphs. The rest is mostly just a catalog of some fairly unprogressive acts and policies. Just negative definitions of progressivism, if you will (h/t Dick "who once shot a 78-year-old man in the face with a shotgun" Cheney)
Here's another:
http://un.org/Overview/rights.html
A careful perusal of this manifesto will give a good overview of why some states consider the United Nations to be a hostile forum and incredibly biased against nations that practice oppression, genocide, and ethnic cleansing.