Timor-Leste

January 6, 2024 | Akhil Ramesh, Cleo Paskal

India can unite Global South with developed world

Delhi has closer Africa connection than Washington, is less vulnerable to ‘predatory lending’ charge than Beijing

August 13, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

Right to vote being snatched from Solomon Islanders by PRC-backed PM

Sogavare has introduced a Bill to postpone elections. Reaction on the ground is seething. Likely Sogavare and his backers in Beijing don’t mind violence so they can activate the China security deal.

June 4, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

China winning entropic warfare in Pacific Islands

We’ve seen Chinese entropic warfare in various stages in Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and elsewhere. And the contagion seems to be spreading in the Pacific.

May 28, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

China launches empire building exercise in Pacific theatre

President Panuelo: ‘Chinese control over our security space, aside from impacts on our sovereignty, increases the chances of China getting into conflict with Australia, Japan, US and New Zealand, on the day when Beijing decides to invade Taiwan

April 16, 2022 | Cleo Paskal |

White House finally awakens to PRC capture of Solomon Islands

Free and fair election could result in a new government that not only abrogates the security deal but switches back to Taiwan. That would be a serious loss of face for Xi Jinping, giving ammunition to his domestic enemies, and could lead to a politically weakened Sogavare being more exposed to prosecution.

May 17, 2010 | Bob Arotsky Pajamas Media

Hot Tips on UN Waste, Fraud and Abuse: U.S. Mission Posts Scores of UN Internal Reports

Hot tip for any reporters interested in newly disclosed documents on waste, fraud and abuse at the United Nations: Just days after I queried the U.S. Mission to the UN about its commitme...

August 7, 2007 | National Interest Online |

Providing Security While Peacekeepers Tarry

Last week the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1769, which authorizes a force of up to 26,000 peacekeepers to restore security to the Darfur region of Sudan where fou...

December 21, 2006 | World Defense Review

The Next Sudanese Conflict

Almost all of the attention which policymakers in the West have given to Sudan over the course of the last year has been rightly focused on what even the United Nations describes as "the world&#0...

November 21, 2006 | Counterterrorism Blog |

Response to the Terrorist Assassination of Pierre Gemayel

The assassination of Minister Pierre Gemayel in Beirut is another war crime against the democratically elected Government and Parliament of Lebanon, and another strike in the Terror War waged by...

September 28, 2006 | National Review Online |

The New Cold War

Behind the spectacle of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez's insults against the West lurks something more sinister than meets the eye. Chávez seeks to lead the Non-Aligned Movem...

August 4, 2006 | TCS Daily |

No Justice, No Peace?

"No peace without justice" has become more than a pious mantra in contemporary international relations. Since the end of the Cold War, the establishment of mechanisms for legal accountability has...

January 22, 2006 | FOXNews.com |

U.N. Procurement Scandal: A ‘Culture of Impunity’

UNITED NATIONS —  How bad is the still expanding scandal in the United Nations' multi-billion-dollar procurement division? Based on a still-secret internal investigation, the answ...

October 26, 2005 | Wall Street Journal |

Business as Usual

Few outside U.N. circles have heard of IHC Services, a private company that for years was one of hundreds of firms selling goods and services to the U.N. As a rule, the U.N. keeps secret most det...

October 6, 2005 | FOXNews.com |

U.N. Procurement Scandal: Secret Information Was Leaked to a Bidder

Co-authored by: George Russell. On the morning of Nov. 6, 2003, an e-mail sped between two business executives at two private firms, bearing an important tip-off about an impend...

October 2, 2005 | FrontPageMagazine |

Blood in Bali

At 8 o'clock Saturday night, horror struck once again in Bali. As of this writing, at least 26 people were killed 101 injured -- including Indonesians, Americans, Australians, Koreans, and...

September 5, 2005 | Claudia Rosett FoxNews.com |

The U.N.’s Spreading Bribery Scandal: Russian Ties and Global Reach

Co-authored by: George Russell. NEW YORK —  How widespread is the corruption at the United Nations? The multibillion-dollar Iraq Oil-for-Food (search) scandal was jus...

June 22, 2004 | Washington Post Online

Terrorism: Hostage Crisis

According to Al Jazeera reports, South Korean hostage Kim Sun Il, 33, has been beheaded by his kidnappers. Just a few days after the beheading of American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., mi...