4 Reasons You Should Worry About Another Sandy
Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Oct. 29 (News Analysis) - One year ago, when Superstorm Sandy devastated much of New Jersey and New York City, the event sparked an intense national discussion about an...
View ArticleBan the Bomb!
AlterNet - By Tad Daley - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - a very elaborate and carefully constructed Model Nuclear Weapons Convention—the product of dozens of scientists, lawyers, nuclear experts, and former...
View ArticleNetanyahu steps up attack on prospect of Iran nuclear weapons deal | World news
theguardian.com - By Dominic Rushe - Nov. 18 (News) - Israeli PM calls for sanctions and says he will not allow 'ayatollahs with nuclear weapons' to threaten 'the Jewish people'NewsTrust Rating: 4.7...
View ArticleUnited States, Israel opposed Mandela, supported Apartheid
Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - The attempt to make Nelson Mandela respectable is an ongoing effort of Western government spokesmen and the Western media. He wasn’t respectable in...
View ArticleNYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Dec. 29 (News Analysis) - John Adams once said –“facts are stubborn things.” And the smug certainty of Official Washington regarding the Syrian Sarin case gradually...
View ArticleTime to look beyond the UN climate negotiations | Bulletin of the Atomic...
thebulletin.org - By Ruth Greenspan Bell, Barry Blechman - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - It would be nice to trust that this cumbersome process, involving 195 negotiating parties and a massive number of issues,...
View ArticleUnited States Is Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading to Poor, UN Report Charges
AlterNet - By Evelyn Nieves - Apr. 01 (News Report) - The U.N. Human Rights Committee in Geneva on Thursday condemned the United States for criminalizing homelessness, calling it "cruel, inhuman and...
View ArticleUN Human Rights Committee Finds US in Violation on 25 Counts
truth-out.org - By Adam Hudson - Apr. 05 (News Report) - While President Obama told the country to "look forward, not backward" when it came to Bush's torture program, the United Nations has taken a...
View ArticleIllegal Trade in Wildlife and Timber Products Finances Criminal and Militia...
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View ArticleGaza civilian deaths may amount to war crimes, UN human rights chief says
aljazeera.com - Jul. 23 (News Report) - Hamas has said that it was not consulted over Egypt’s truce plan, first launched last Tuesday, and indicated that certain conditions would have to be met as part...
View Article"No Safe Place": After Deadly Attack on Gaza School, U.N. Warns 150,000...
Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jul. 25 (News Report) - At least 16 people were killed and more than 200 injured Thursday when a school used as a United Nations shelter came under fire in Gaza....
View Article"Enough Blood Has Been Spilled": Israel Condemned for Striking U.N. Shelter...
Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Aug. 01 (News Report) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned what he called the "outrageous" and "unjustifiable" Israeli shelling of a U.N....
View ArticleUN panel: Global warming human-caused, dangerous
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View ArticleExplain This: The Global Warming "Hiatus"
thebulletin.org - By Dawn Stover - Sep. 23 (News Analysis) - So how can climate skeptics claim that the Earth is in the midst of a global warming “pause” or even a “decade-long cooling,” as did one...
View ArticleBad Moon Rising
Foreign Policy - By David J. Rothkopf - Sep. 25 (Editorial) - Behind the scenes at the U.N., a more unsettling story emerges of Syria, Iraq, and fighting the Islamic State.NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average...
View ArticleUN Report Finds Mass Surveillance Violates International Treaties and Privacy...
firstlook.org - By Glenn Greenwald - Oct. 18 (News Report) - The United Nations’ top official for counter-terrorism and human rights (known as the “Special Rapporteur”) issued a formal report to the...
View ArticleAbout Monday's Civil Forum & Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear...
thebulletin.org - By Kennette Benedict - Dec. 05 (Opinion) - Today the principle that states should protect their citizens survives, but the notion of total national sovereignty does not. In 2005, the...
View ArticleOverseas, Torture Report Prompts Calls for Prosecution
New York Times - By Rick Gladstone, Robert Mackey - Dec. 10 (News) - The release of the Senate report on the graphic torture of terrorism suspects by the Bush-era Central Intelligence Agency led to...
View ArticleRebels advance in Ukraine, Moscow faces sanctions threats
Reuters - By Natalia Zinets, Denis Dyomkin - Jan. 26 (News Report) - ReutersRebels advance in Ukraine, Moscow faces sanctions threatsReutersKIEV/ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Russian-backed rebels pushed...
View ArticleFor the US, War Is Peace in Ukraine
Common Dreams - By Margaret Kimberley - Feb. 12 (Opinion) - The United States and the rest of NATO gambled when they took sides in Ukraine’s 2014 political crisis. American fingerprints were clearly...
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