Damn this War On Terrorism! Damn it to hell!!! From the AP: The ban covers exports from the major sturgeon-exporting countries, said CITES, which regulates legal caviar exports through an international system of permits. The Caspian Sea produces the sturgeons said to be the world’s highest quality. The countries bordering the Caspian Sea account for [...]
A mini-blogburst sparked by Dr. Demarche illuminates the term “world community.” He asks whether the term has any real meaning and what is the role of the United Nations and the United States in such a place. I’m afraid my modest contribution doesn’t reveal much except the disordered condition of my own thoughts about it. [...]
Quite significant findings coming out of the Oil for Food investigation by Volcker & Company In an interview, Mr. Volcker said that while he knew the naming of companies and the exposure of international “machinations” would draw attention, he hoped it would not obscure his committee’s purpose in keeping the focus of their work on [...]
Good news from the U.N. UNITED NATIONS – Armed conflicts have declined by 40 percent since the end of the Cold War primarily because the United Nations was finally able to launch peacekeeping and conflict-prevention operations around the world, according to a new study. The first Human Security Report paints a surprising picture of war [...]
Giving accolades and a medal to people like Mohamed ElBaradei in the era of nuclear hyper-proliferation smacks of hubris.
Marc at “American Future” reprints key passages of Bush’s and Blair’s U.N. speeches today one after the other, for comparison. Blair is stellar as always, in his choice of words and the cadences of his sentences, but also in the way he seems to clearly “get it.” This terrorism that today again has claimed the [...]
Somehow, I don’t think Michael Moore considered making this documentary: In 1948 nearly one million Jews lived in Arab lands. But In barely twenty years, they have become forgotten fugitives, expelled from their native lands, forgotten by history and where the victims themselves have hidden their fate under a cloak of silence. A people whom [...]
Wow. Let me say that again…wow. I NEVER expected this move from Powell, but I’m glad he’s speaking out now. Many on the left decried his speech at the U.N. even when our media trumpeted it as an open and shut case. Now he’s saying it was a low point in his career. In any [...]
I have noted here before the unrest in Haiti. Saturday, there were more killings there, this time in the Port-au-Prince slum of Martissant. This time it was “hooded police and individuals with machetes” attacking “bandits” with machetes. “Everybody gathered to watch the [soccer] game, suddenly the police surrounded the area and ordered everyone to lie [...]
Who wrote this on Oct. 15, 2002? Democratic Rep. Dick Gephardt, the minority leader, invoked Sept. 11. “If you’re worried about terrorists getting weapons of mass destruction or their components from countries, the first candidate you worry about is Iraq.” No it isn’t. Start with Pakistan, or some of the former Soviet republics. As a [...]
Not sure what to make of this: The United States mulled the unprecedented step of refusing Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad a visa to attend next month’s UN General Assembly, the State Department said. Deputy spokesman Adam Ereli said the U.S. was looking at the visa request by Ahmadinejad in light of allegations he might have [...]
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