un issues

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/russia-ban-ki-moon-gay-rights_us_585187c1e4b0ee009eb4e9b7 Russia Blocks U.N. Council Bid To Thank Ban Ki-Moon For Gay Rights Work I don't get why Russia would expend political capital like that. Don't they want to be seen as more pro-gressive and not...

It appears that al Qaeda or a clone have duped the Tuareg into helping them set up a secessionist state in the north of Mali. They have now begun instituting an Islamic state totally inconsistant with the traditional values of the people of Mali. It should be clear to any rational person that...

Why is the UN Taking Sides in Libya? From what I have seen the UN is being very anti-Khadaffi. Why is this? Shouldn't they stay neutral in this conflict?

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/230778_Countries_that_voted_to_remove It's just so appalling to me that the UN isn't recognized as the bastion of regressiveness that it is.

Remind me why the UN has credibility again? http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/29/elects-iran-commission-womens-rights/ Other UN ironies include Libya chairing a human rights council and Zimbabwe chairing a council on sustainable development. From Iran Solidarity Blog:

Anyone care about this? Not too surprised myself, though I wonder how much Harper's repeated (and trumpeted) 'snubs' to the UN mattered, vs. other factors. also lol @ the tories claiming Iggy jinxed them.

Apparently the US has been the sole objector to this UN resolution since at least 2005. I didn't look any further back than that. UN General Assembly GA/SHC/3941 24 November 2008 UN General Assembly GA/SHC/3910 21 November 2007 From an article in 2006 by a public health group: Human...

The planet is in trouble and so are we as a species. Every few months there is another report highlighting the effects of over population and declining resources. Al Gore received the Nobel Prize for his documentary examining just one of the pieces of the puzzle. Now the UN has released the...

Suspend Uranium Enrichment, or we shall demand you suspend it a second time... Maybe...just maybe it will work this time! :rolleyes:

King George II of the United States of Conservatives appointed Bolton as the new UN Ambassador. CNN I don't understand why he appointed a burnt out ballad singer. Charlie (they call it democracy) Monoxide

And, as Mr. Newgent pointed out in his poorly-named thread ... In spring 2004, Bolton, then undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, wrote "The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort,"...

It's being reported by United Press International that former president Bill Clinton is interested in becoming Secretary General of the UN in 2006, when Annan's term expires...

I know a lot of Americans depise the United Nations, though I happen not to be one. Over the years the UN has been manipulated in many ways and failed to prevent some horrible military wars, but it has done some good humanitarian work. In light recent develops, the UN was ineffective at...