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The U.S. Rejoins the UN’s Human Rights Violators Club
Episode 92
If the United Nations Human Rights Council were a figment of George Orwell’s imagination, you’d probably say: “Okay, very entertaining but, even acco…
4 years, 5 months ago
Israel’s Shield in the Sky
Episode 91
In May, Hamas leaders in Gaza — a territory from which Israelis withdrew in 2005 — launched more than 4,000 missiles at Israel, sparking an eleven-da…
4 years, 5 months ago
The UN’s Strange Obsession with Israel
Episode 90
An extraordinary number of organizations within the UN system spend most of their time, money, and energy demonizing and attempting to de-legitimize …
4 years, 6 months ago
Nuclear and Chemical Watchdogs or Lapdogs?
Episode 89
Back in 1957, the same year the Soviets put Sputnik — the world’s first artificial satellite — into orbit, and Elvis Presley’s “All Shook Up” hit the…
4 years, 7 months ago
The U.N. Record on Health, Human Rights, Trade, and Communications is Worse Than You Think
Episode 88
There are dozens of international organizations affiliated with the United Nations. Some do useful work. Those that do not are under no pressure to i…
4 years, 7 months ago
Jewish Germans and German Jews
Episode 87
Jews have lived in the lands we now call Germany for a rather long time. They first arrived in the 4th century under the Roman Emperor Constantine.
B…
4 years, 7 months ago
Israel, Post-Bibi
Episode 86
For the past 12 years, Benjamin Netanyahu served as Israel’s prime minister, fighting wars and wars-between-wars against Hamas and Hezbollah; opposin…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Predators Threatening Africa
Episode 85
Africa is a large and diverse continent. Many different peoples, ethnic groups, tribes — these terms overlap but are not synonymous — speaking more t…
4 years, 8 months ago
The UN System: What Went Wrong and What Should Be Done
Episode 84
The U.N. and other international organizations were designed to give structure to what we like to call the “international community” – establishing a…
4 years, 9 months ago
Raisi Rising
Episode 83
An election – of sorts – was held in the Islamic Republic of Iran last week. The victor: Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline theocrat who has been sanctioned b…
4 years, 9 months ago