US-UN Relations, Foreign Aid to Come Under Fire in New Congress US-UN Relations, Foreign Aid to Come Under Fire in New Congress
Obama was just beginning to repair US-UN relations. Now that Republicans have taken back the House, resurgent cold warriors and neo-isolationists could make 2011 a risky year for i...
Dec 15, 2010 / Barbara Crossette
Hillary Clinton Gets Wiki-Served Hillary Clinton Gets Wiki-Served
Hillary Clinton should confront the unpleasant truths the cables reveal about US foreign policy and her own troubling directive that our diplomats should spy on their foreign colle...
Dec 1, 2010 / Robert Scheer
WikiLeaks Reveals State Department Pushed Diplomats to Spy WikiLeaks Reveals State Department Pushed Diplomats to Spy
The new cable dump includes a State Department directive to have diplomats spy on UN officials. The UN has been a playground for spies since its origin—but this rec...
Nov 29, 2010 / Barbara Crossette
Greg Mitchell and Daniel Ellsberg on the WikiLeaks Document Dump Greg Mitchell and Daniel Ellsberg on the WikiLeaks Document Dump
The morning after WikiLeaks began releasing its trove of confidential US diplomatic cables, Democracy Now! hosts a round-table about the possible impact of these leaks.
Nov 29, 2010 / Democracy Now!
Gearing Up for Cancún Gearing Up for Cancún
Expectations are low that the United Nations’s upcoming two-week climate conference will produce the international agreement needed to avert global warming.
Nov 28, 2010 / Tina Gerhardt
NATO Against Mars? Count Anne Applebaum In NATO Against Mars? Count Anne Applebaum In
Post op-ed scribbler suggests that since NATO has done so well in Afghanistan, even Russia might join NATO to fight China.
Nov 23, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Jeopardy Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Jeopardy
The tribunal set up to judge surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime has been surrounded by squabbles between the Cambodian government and the UN and mired in charges of corrup...
Nov 15, 2010 / Barbara Crossette
IAEA Ex-Inspector Says Iran Is Bungling Its Nuke Program IAEA Ex-Inspector Says Iran Is Bungling Its Nuke Program
Still hawkish, IAEA's Heinonen says Iran's centrifuges aren't working well and that Tehran will face enormous difficulty if it decides to refine its uranium to weapons-grade qualit...
Nov 1, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss
Judging the War Crimes Tribunal Judging the War Crimes Tribunal
The International Criminal Court has had setbacks—but it's already having an impact.
Oct 27, 2010 / Feature / Barbara Crossette
Palestine: Ambassador Warns That Time Is Running Out for Two-State Solution Palestine: Ambassador Warns That Time Is Running Out for Two-State Solution
Only two years left before Palestinians may give up on the idea. What's left? A single, binational state.
Oct 15, 2010 / Bob Dreyfuss