Stephen Lendman
2nd February, 2013
Since last weekend, Israel attacked Syria multiple times. Doing so was premeditated, unprovoked aggression.
Posts Tagged ‘UN’
Ban Ki-moon fails to condemn Israeli aggression
Posted by seumasach on February 2, 2013
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The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti
Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2010
F.William Engdahl
31st January, 2010
President becomes UN Special Envoy to earthquake-stricken Haiti.
A born-again neo-conservative US business wheeler-dealer preacher claims Haitians are condemned for making a literal ‘pact with the Devil.’
Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Bolivian, French and Swiss rescue organizations accuse the US military of refusing landing rights to planes bearing necessary medicines and urgently needed potable water to the millions of Haitians stricken, injured and homeless.
Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the world’s richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater than that of nearby Venezuela.
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Aid Groups Frustrated by US Military’s Role in Haiti Effort- UN Curbs Aid Citing Lack of Combat Troops
Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2010
Jason Ditz
29th January, 2010
The leader of the Eagles Wings Foundation, one of the major humanitarian groups on the ground in Haiti, slammed the US military today for holding up aid efforts, insisting that they aren’t providing support for distribution efforts.
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Ahmadinejad speech at UN
Posted by smeddum on September 24, 2009
Follow up report. from Russia Today
Ahmadinejad and Gaddafi attack world order
24 September, 2009, 02:43
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad addressed the UN General Assembly saying that the role of single powers and capitalism are over, and he will go the way of communism. Libya’s leader, Colonel Gaddafi, came down on the UN. Read the rest of this entry »
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Financial crisis hits world body: UN banks on empty pledges
Posted by smeddum on October 12, 2008
Columns – Inside the glass house
Financial crisis hits world body: UN banks on empty pledges Sunday Times
By Thalif Deen at the united nations
NEW YORK – The financial crisis, which has continued to destabilise stock markets and undermine the global banking system, is expected to have a negative impact on the perpetually cash-strapped United Nations and its development activities — sooner than later. Read the rest of this entry »
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In These New Times 