Israel's expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem is gaining momentum, ensuring that the “nation” that the U.N. might grant membership will be each day a little smaller.
It's outrageous that Washington is threatening the Palestinians and the UN itself with dire consequences if a move is made toward UN recognition of statehood.
Ian Williams, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 1, 2011.
In addition to the Tea Party wanting to cut off UN funding, there's also the Cuban American lobby and the Likudnik Israel supporters, who think that the UN is now anti-Israel.
According to a UN report and testimony of former inmates, prison workers and relatives, prisoners were not armed at the time, were made to lie down and were shot.
"Abandon the people, leave the people to despair and desperation, and that will make the politics more difficult going forward," says UNRWA Director John Ging.
Sarah Terry Cobo, Center for Investigative Reporting. March 23, 2010.
Environmental "externalities," says one expert, "pose a major risk to the global economy and markets are not fully aware of these risks, nor do they know how to deal with them."
A US resolution at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs conference could mean that governments that currently do not offer access to these drugs will sit up and take notice.
Some 30 percent of all U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have occurred during Obama's presidency. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned.
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. November 20, 2009.
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.
Lee Fang, ThinkProgress 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."
