By Joseph A. Klein Saturday, June 15, 2013
Outgoing United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice delivered the latest set of the Obama administration’s talking points to reporters on Friday June 14th, this time regarding the Syrian government’s alleged use of chemical weapons and the U.S. response. Rice said that U.S. intelligence agencies had determined with “high confidence” from “multiple streams of information” that the Assad regime has used the chemical weapon sarin multiple times in small amounts over the last year. There was no reliable, corroborated reporting, according to Rice, that the Syrian opposition possesses, or has used, any chemical weapons.
{paginate} {/paginate} Bayefsky Reveals the Madness of the UN Human Rights Council, in TweetsBy Guest Column Thursday, June 13, 2013
This article by Joel Pollak originally appeared on Breitbart.com.
On Monday morning, Anne Bayefsky was one of the few voices to oppose the anti-Israel madness of the execrable Richard Falk, the 9/11 Truther who is a Special Rapporteur at the UN Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council, incidentally, is something the U.S. government chose to ignore until President Barack Obama decided to give it legitimacy—a policy both Susan Rice and Samantha Power fully support.
{paginate} {/paginate} UN Ignores Hamas Training Of Child SoldiersBy Joseph A. Klein Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The annual report of the United Nations Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict highlights progress it claims was made in 2012 to protect children living in countries affected by conflict, but also documents how the evolving character and tactics of war are creating unprecedented threats for them.
{paginate} {/paginate} Bayefsky Reveals the Madness of the UN Human Rights Council, in TweetsBy Guest Column Wednesday, June 12, 2013
This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on Breitbart.com.
On Monday morning, Anne Bayefsky was one of the few voices to oppose the anti-Israel madness of the execrable Richard Falk, the 9/11 Truther who is a Special Rapporteur at the UN Human Rights Council. The Human Rights Council, incidentally, is something the U.S. government chose to ignore until President Barack Obama decided to give it legitimacy—a policy both Susan Rice and Samantha Power fully support.
{paginate} {/paginate} Will UN Ambassador Samantha Power Legitimize Anti-US/Israel Richard Falk?By Guest Column Monday, June 10, 2013
This article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on Breitbart.com.
What do Samantha Power, Obama’s nominee for UN Ambassador, and Richard Falk, UN Human Rights Council “expert” and Boston terror-apologist, have in common? They both champion the United Nations’ human rights credentials and denigrate those of the United States.
{paginate} {/paginate} U.S. Rejects Top UN Official’s Bid to Expel Watchdog NGO, Says Richard Falk is ‘Unfit to ServeBy UN Watch Sunday, June 9, 2013
- UN Watch: “We do not take this lightly: the UN has suspended NGOs for criticizing the wrong regimes”
GENEVA, – America’s envoy to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, has demanded the resignation of one of its top officials, saying Richard Falk’s attempt to investigate and potentially shut down a UN-accredited NGO could “threaten the independent voice of civil society at the United Nations.”
{paginate} {/paginate} The Grenade-Throwing President of the Palestine Olympic Committee Comes To The UNBy Joseph A. Klein Sunday, June 9, 2013
Palestinian Major General Jibril Rajoub, Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and the president of the Palestinian Football Federation and the Palestine Olympic Committee, spoke to reporters at United Nations headquarters in New York on June 6th. He was accompanied by Palestine’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations, Riad Mansur.
{paginate} {/paginate} President Obama Chooses Left-Wing Samantha Power For UN Ambassador PostBy Joseph A. Klein Thursday, June 6, 2013
Samantha Power, who previously served in the Obama administration as Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, is President Obama’s choice to take Susan Rice’s place as the United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations.
{paginate} {/paginate} Turkish Raid: UN Rights Council Called to InvestigateBy UN Watch Friday, May 31, 2013
GENEVA, – In reaction to this morning’s brutal Turkish police action that targeted peaceful protesters and journalists, creating scenes of chaos on the streets of Istanbul, a Geneva-based human rights group is demanding an urgent debate of the United Nations Human Rights Council, now in session, in a letter (see full text below) sent today to Council President Remigiusz Achilles Henczel, and UN rights chief Navi Pillay.
{paginate} {/paginate} New High-Level UN Development Panel Report Retreads Old Left-Wing IdeasBy Joseph A. Klein Friday, May 31, 2013
On May 30, 2013,the United Nations High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda released a report entitled “A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development.” Its authors claimed that the report sets out a “universal” and “transformative” agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development.
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