On AlterNet: u.n.

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "u.n."

U.S. Fails to Make Top 10 in Quality of Life Index, or Why Right-Wingers Really Hate the U.N.

Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: World. October 5, 2009.

In it recent Human Development Index, the U.N. ranks the U.S. at number 13 among the nations of the world.

U.N. Seeks a Green Revolution in Food

Thalif Deen, IPS News. March 4, 2009.

Organic small-scale agriculture can deliver increased yields without the damage that has resulted from the industrial model of agriculture.

Somalia: U.S. Policy Aided Rise in Piracy

Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 11, 2009.

Among the many booby traps left by the Bush administration for the Obama team, Somalia could be one of the most complicated and bizarre.

Twelve Years Ago My Children Were Killed in Lebanon

Haidar Bitar, AlterNet. April 18, 2008.

My country, the United States, has never called for justice or pressed for an official inquiry into the massacre at Qana.

Exploring Christopher Columbus Day

Elias Lawless, WireTap. October 9, 2006.

Opinion: How might a federal holiday relate to U.S. support for Guatemala`s bid at the U.N. Security Council?