Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 29, 2009. In spite of this statement, Bolton, the former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, stopped short of endorsing the policy's dissolution.
Lee Fang, Think Progress AlterNet: World. September 29, 2009. "It's time to get a jackhammer and simply chip that part of New York City," Huckabee told a cheering crowd on Saturday. "Let it float into the East River, never to be seen again."
Suzanne Ito, Blog of Rights AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 20, 2009. The Working Group on the use of mercenaries will focus on questions of transparency, accountability, and human rights.
Marcela Valente, IPS News. June 13, 2009. The International Planned Parenthood Federation launched the world's first declaration of sexual rights in the Buenos Aires on Wednesday.
The Washington Post June 12, 2009. With the gap between industrialized and developing countries still wide, the best that U.N. officials could offer were small achievements.
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 9, 2009. Obama could use his enormous political leverage to cease Israel's illegal expansion into the West Bank. But will he?
Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. June 6, 2009. Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. April 30, 2009. A unique civilization that has existed in Iraq for thousands of years, the marsh Arabs survived Saddam but now are losing a battle against nature.
Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 22, 2009. To the dismay of human rights groups across the world, Obama decided to pander to right-wing hawks and boycott the historic gathering.
Jonathan Cook, AlterNet. January 26, 2009. Israeli officials are in a frenzy of activity to forestall legal actions abroad over their involvement in the recent Gaza offensive.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 26, 2009. Obama's administration will engage in "direct diplomacy" with Iran, the newly installed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Monday.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 13, 2009. The U.S. Secretary of State helped write and "fully supports" a resolution, and then suddenly decides she doesn't want to vote for it?
Phyllis Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus. December 24, 2008. The decision to detain the UN's envoy fits a pattern of hiding the human consequences of the siege of Gaza from the world.
John Ridley, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 20, 2008. As innocuous as the U.N. declaration was, it could turn into a sharp-toothed boomerang that might whip around and bite Uncle Sam in the backside.
Siun, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. November 19, 2008. On Tuesday, Israel reinstated the full blockade leaving the people of Gaza without essential humanitarian aid.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. September 23, 2008. Dear McCain/Palin campaign, if you want media somewhere to take pictures, you may just have to let them report too.
Melinda Brouwer, AlterNet. July 2, 2008. Creating a "League of Democracies" is a central tenet of John McCain's foreign policy "vision," but in other democracies, the idea's a non-starter.
