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The House Foreign Affairs Committee today voted for a bill to overhaul American funding to the United Nations and to open the door to cuts of up to 50 % in US dues to the world body. The vote broke along party lines, with 23 Republicans in favor and 15…
Over 80 percent of American voters want their government to continue being actively engaged in affairs at the United Nations, says a new poll conducted for the UN Foundation, a group dedicated to promoting the UN’s role and activities. The public opinion study, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Hart…
After months of negotiations, UN Security Council members tonight failed to agree on a resolution condemning the Syrian government’s violent response to protests, with permanent members China and Russia using their veto to scrap the Western backed text. US Ambassador Susan Rice told Security Council members the Obama administration was…
Just a week after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas presented his bid for full membership in the United Nations, a committee of the Security Council met Friday to consider the request. The committee on the admission of Palestine, made up of all 15 members of the Security Council, agreed to meet…
The UN Security Council today agreed to refer Palestinian application for UN membership to a special committee which will begin examining its request Friday. Council members met briefly this morning to make the announcement, the first step in a process that could likely take weeks, or longer, before any final…
By Kenneth R. Bazinet Do not be fooled by today’s closed-door meeting at the United Nations Security Council: It will be a long slog before any votes or vetoes are cast in the Palestinian statehood issue. The UN Security Council will not set up a committee to review Palestinian President Mahmoud…
In a passionate speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Mahmoud Abbas today made good on his bid for full Palestinian membership at the United Nations in the hope of reviving talks with Israel and moving past the stalemate that has characterized negotiations over the past decades. Just minutes later,…
As the UN commemorated the 10th anniversary of the controversial Durban World Conference Against Racism, opponents of the event held their own counter-conference at a nearby mid-town Manhattan hotel. The 2001 Durban Conference Declaration was boycotted by the US and other countries for its disproportionate focus on Israel and Zionism….
By Kenneth R. Bazinet Israeli security forces are breaking out the “skunk” crowd-control spray amid fears of violence in Jerusalem and elsewhere ahead of tomorrow’s anticipated bid for statehood at the United Nations by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Skunk, a smelly spray that can leave its victims wishing they…
On a day where several hundred demonstrators rallied and chanted outside UN headquarters against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New York, European Union and American diplomats inside the world body staged their own protest, walking out half way through the Iranian President’s address to the General Assembly. In his half hour…
Budget Trickery
Obama's Super PAC Excuse Falls Flat
If bowing to political realities is verboten for one party, it's clear that it should be for the President as well.
Who will you vote for this year: Big Oil, Big Casinos, or Wall Street?
Dependency On The Government Climbs
Before President Lyndon B. Johnson began the Great Society programs in the '60's, about one in every nine Americans depended on federal assistance to get by. Today, instead of one in nine, it's one in five.
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