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I have a piece in today's Newsday on the swirling fog around Trump foreign policy. LGM regulars won't see much new in it, but I do talk briefly about states that might be.
The UN consistently chooses the most conservative predictions about the effects of climate change in order to try and mollify climate change deniers. This has the effect of muting the.
I wonder how the defenders of Rand Paul's paranoia about drone strikes attacking U.S. citizens feel about his bill to withdraw the United States from the United Nations? Paul appears to be following in the footsteps of his father — former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)...
It's hard to know precisely what to say about the GOP's rejection of the United Nations Disability Convention. On the one hand, it's true enough that the real impact of.
Once again, large swaths of the Republican Party oppose international definitions of basic human rights: For the first time, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) explicitly described family planning as a.
And by this I assume the report means all wars, not just inter-state wars, considering that the number for the latter is getting so small in historical terms that nearly everything is riskier. According to the report -- titled "Sick Water?" -- 90 percent of...
1) A small puppy, if walked real hard first, will sit quietly outside long enough for a decent taping with no unseemly background noise. (I had worried about that.) 2).
The UNSC-mandated Monitoring Group on Somalia presented its report to the Security Council Tuesday. The part of the report detailing corruption in the distribution of humanitarian aid is getting all.
I'm sure that folks have already seen this:Farhan Haq told the Swiss News Agency that Libya had submitted the proposal for discussion by the General Assembly. It was thrown out by the committee responsible for setting the assembly's agenda, since it contradicted the principles of...
Axe, noting that BSG has been lauded by the UN, opines:In addition to raising all those issues that interest the U.N., BSG is the best “naval” show in years. Yes,.
This is kind of interesting. Neither China nor Russia have been shy about using their Security Council vetoes in defense of either regional interests, or in reference to particular issue.