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No More Caviar Imports

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The World, United Nations

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 80 percent of [...]

January 4th, 2006 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

World Community

By Callimachus | Related entries in Ideas, The World, United Nations

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. [...]

December 30th, 2005 | Permalink| No Comments »

U.N. for Sale or Reform?

By Denise Best | Related entries in Blogging, In The News, United Nations

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 [...]

October 27th, 2005 | Permalink| No Comments »

Global Violence Down

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in The War On Terrorism, The World, United Nations, War

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 and peace [...]

October 19th, 2005 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Hubris

By Cicero | Related entries in General Politics, United Nations, War

Giving accolades and a medal to people like Mohamed ElBaradei in the era of nuclear hyper-proliferation smacks of hubris.

October 10th, 2005 | Permalink| 4 Comments »

Bush and Blair

By Callimachus | Related entries in Ideas, In The News, Smart Things Said By Smart People, United Nations

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 lives [...]

September 14th, 2005 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

The Other Exodus

By Callimachus | Related entries in History, The Politics Of Film, The World, United Nations

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 legend [...]

September 14th, 2005 | Permalink| No Comments »

Colin Powell Speaks Out Against The Handling Of Iraq

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in History, Smart Things Said By Smart People, The War On Terrorism, United Nations, War

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 event, [...]

September 11th, 2005 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

More Killings in Haiti

By Montag | Related entries in The World, United Nations

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 [...]

August 25th, 2005 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

A Reminder

By Callimachus | Related entries in Foreign Policy, The War On Terrorism, United Nations, War

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 Missourian, [...]

August 14th, 2005 | Permalink| 7 Comments »

US Considers Barring Iranian President from Entering Country

By Montag | Related entries in Foreign Policy, The World, United Nations

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 been involved [...]

August 11th, 2005 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

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