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By Claudia Rosett
Monday, September 24, 2007
While all eyes are on the circus surrounding the trip by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, a quiet but important showdown over misconduct is shaping up at high levels of a major United Nations agency in Geneva. In this case, one of the whistleblowers is none other than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
By Cliff Kincaid
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Did you know that China could become the world's leading naval power by 2020? That's the verdict of military analyst Tony Corn. This may help explain why the U.S. Navy thinks a piece of paper called the U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty provides some sort of protection for American forces on the high seas. It offers no such protection, of course, but it creates the impression that Navy leaders are doing something about our increasing weakness and vulnerability. However, like so many other U.N. treaties, including the 19 anti-terrorism treaties in effect on 9/11, this one offers a false sense of security. It will mask a dramatic decline in our military power.
By Joseph Klein
Thursday, September 20, 2007
The Organization of Islamic Conferences ("OIC") has become the diplomatic and public relations arm of the Islamic-fascists. It uses the United Nations to gain international legitimacy for an Islamic-centric agenda that whitewashes the Shiite and Sunni religious extremists who have declared a holy jihad against our freedoms. Justifying its quest for ever more Muslim control of the United Nations' major bodies -- including a permanent seat on the Security Council -- the OIC boasts that it is "the largest institution after the United Nations, which brings together one-fifth of the world population" and is "the second largest intergovernmental organisation in terms of the number of member states". But the OIC has no right to claim a permanent seat on the one UN body charged with responsibility for collective international peace and security, given the OIC's record of encouragement to the Islamic-fascists in its midst.
By Claudia Rosett
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
In the pantheon of United Nations causes, Africa by many measures occupies a preeminent role. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has described "the African challenge" as "the highest priority on my agenda."1 Africa is the main theater of UN peacekeeping operations, the poster-continent for UN aid appeals, the object of a long series of high-minded promises and home to a huge roster of lavishly funded UN programs, projects, offices, commissions and initiatives.
By Claudia Rosett, National Review
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Talk about skeletons in the closet. The United Nations weapons inspectors once tasked with tracking Saddam Hussein's arsenal have just discovered that for more than a decade they've been storing vials containing one of Iraq's chemical-weapons concoctions — phosgene — in a cabinet in their own New York office. Removed from Iraq's Al Muthanna chemical-weapons facility in 1996, the phosgene apparently sat unnoticed in the UNMOVIC office until last week.
This discovery was presented by the U.N. at a press briefing Thursday as the sort of mistake anyone could make, even if — as one of the U.N. weapons experts explained — opening the containers would mean "a couple of people would be dead." Phosgene is an irritant, widely used as a weapon in World War I, which causes people to choke to death.
By Claudia Rosett, National Review
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
We are about to learn the meaning of "ethics" in the United Nations administration of Ban Ki-moon. Eight months after Secretary-General Ban took office, promising to "restore trust," he has been presented with a simple test, via the case of a former employee of the U.N. Development Program, Artjon Shkurtaj.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Thursday, August 9, 2007
The failure by the U.S. State Department to cite historical evidence that American explorers actually discovered the North Pole, in the wake of Russian claims to the oil-rich region, has had the desired effect. Our media are declaring that the matter has to be resolved by the United Nations. One writer, Eric Margolis, even proposes that the U.N. take complete control of the region.
By Claudia RosettRosett Report
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Let no one fault the UN for lack of enterprise and ingenuity. A series of federal investigations over the past few years have been delving into the activities of a growing list of UN officials engaged in all sorts of lively and creative endeavors, from setting up secret offshore front companies, to laundering money meant to buy UN peacekeeping supplies, to allegedly keeping counterfeit U.S. $100 bills in a UN Development Program (UNDP) office safe in North Korea.
By Claudia Rosett, Rosett Report
Monday, August 6, 2007
Sipping soda and chatting away to the press, one of the most indefatigable briefers on the international scene is the U.S. envoy to the six-party talks on North Korea, Chris Hill. Part of Hill's diplomatic art includes ladling out a certain amount of merriment in his endless rounds of morning walkthroughs, evening walkthroughs, airport interviews, statements, q and a's, and full-bore press briefings. On July 23rd, having just returned from Beijing, Hill gave a briefing for which the State Department's transcript includes seven instances of mirth so pronounced that the transcribers took the trouble to note, in parentheses, the "laughter" soundtrack.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Thursday, August 2, 2007
It is fascinating to watch how our liberal media treat the Bush Administration on foreign policy matters. The bias against its Iraq War policy has been phenomenal. But when the administration moves in the direction of abandoning an assertive U.S. foreign policy and relying more heavily on international institutions and other nations to solve problems, the coverage turns cordial and extremely supportive. Such is the case with the administration's push for ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
By Claudia RosettFOX News
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Can the United Nations teach good corporate behavior? That's the mission of a fast-growing UN initiative called the Global Compact -- run out of the Secretary-General's executive office by an outfit that flunks most basic tests of good governance.
Called the Office of the Global Compact, this operation is housed on the 18th floor of the U.N.'s landmark Manhattan headquarters, and reports directly to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Its goal is promoting more virtuous behavior on the part of private business, and just last week it hosted what its own brochure described as an "historic" two-day corporate jamboree at the UN's palatial offices in Geneva.
By Claudia RosettThe Philadelphia Inquirer
Friday, July 6, 2007
When it comes to the utterances of United Nations special advisers, there must be some allowance for gibberish, the institution's mother tongue. But writing recently in Fortune magazine, the guru of U.N. development strategy, economist Jeffrey Sachs, goes too far. In a guest column about how the post-Paul Wolfowitz World Bank should tackle Africa - poster-continent of poverty - he dismisses as irrelevant the vast problem of corruption, and doesn't even mention its cause: repressive and rapacious government.
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
At a recent Heritage Foundation symposium on the Law of the Sea Treaty, one of the proponents was Rear Admiral William D. Baumgartner, the Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Coast Guard. After panelist Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy calmly and methodologically delineated the problems with the treaty, and how U.S. national security could be adversely affected, Baumgartner said he was not impressed. He said one of Gaffney's complaints about the International Seabed Authority, a major component of the new international bureaucracy established by the treaty, "just doesn't make any sense at all" and was not "rooted in reality."
By Jim Kouri
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Since 2005, the United Nations has been attempting to reform its management processes, in part to help ensure that resources are used effectively and efficiently. Some of these reforms focus on improving oversight and accountability at the United Nations.
By Claudia RosettNational Review Online
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Geneva — So, how many BMWs does it take to make one United Nations Human Rights Council?
Many — to judge by the scene I came across Monday evening in the parking lot of the U.N.'s plush premises in Geneva, site of the old and failed League of Nations. That's where the U.N.'s "reformed" new Human Rights Council was racing the clock to finish sorting out its rules of play within the year allotted when it was approved in 2006 by the General Assembly (and praised by Kofi Annan). The deadline was midnight, and the gang of thug governments on the Council was gunning for a deal that would ease the way for them to permanently condemn — what else? — Israel, while giving some of the worst governments on the planet a free pass.
By Claudia Rosett and George Russell Fox News
Thursday, June 14, 2007
"Justice has been done."
That's how United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed the conviction for fraud and corruption of a former top U.N. procurement official, Sanjaya Bahel, who was found guilty on June 7 in New York federal court of steering some $100 million worth of U.N. peacekeeping support contracts to the well-connected family of a fellow-Indian friend.
By Claudia Rosett, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Despite chronic scandals that suggest it can't clean up even its own offices, the United Nations wants to manage the weather of the entire planet. In the name of cooling global warming, the U.N. is steering toward a role as chief broker for assigning and trading national rights to emit carbon dioxide. The plan amounts to a tax on high per-capita carbon emitters, such as the United States, and subsidies for low emitters, such as Laos and Equatorial Guinea.
By Claudia Rosett, The New York Sun
Friday, May 25, 2007
Not only has the United Nations been caught funneling cash to the rogue regime of North Korea's Kim Jong Il, but it's now emerging that the U.N. Development Program was ordering up books critical of America and President Bush for North Korean arms experts in Pyongyang, and accepted a shipment on March 14, almost two weeks after the UNDP announced that it was suspending operations in North Korea.
By Claudia Rosett, The Weekly Standard
Saturday, May 19, 2007
For two of Paul Wolfowitz's most prominent critics, Mark Malloch Brown and Ad Melkert, the war over the World Bank presidency could not have come at a better time. Whatever else the ousting of Wolfowitz has achieved, it has done plenty to distract from the North Korea Cash-for-Kim scandal that just four months ago was threatening to engulf the United Nations agency piloted for the past eight years first by Malloch Brown and now largely by Melkert.
By Claudia Rosett, National Review Online
Monday, May 14, 2007
With Zimbabwe elected Friday to chair the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, we now have the latest poster-child for the usual U.N. Orwellian abuse of the noble mandate, glorious goals, and all those good things promised by the free world in concert with the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin back at the U.N. founding in 1945.
By Henry Lamb
Monday, April 16, 2007
A new U.N. treaty entered into force on March 18, 2007: the "Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions." This new treaty has been ratified by 56 nations, and it is only a matter of time (and who occupies the White House) before it is presented to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
By Henry Lamb
4/10/07
Thirty-four new sites are being proposed for addition to the existing 20 U.N. World Heritage sites in the United States. These proposed sites are from a list of more than 70 sites suggested for listing. The decision for listing is expected before the end of 2007.
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