Time for a Tea Party at Turtle Bay
Foreign policy was a side issue in Tuesday’s election. But with crises in the making, from Venezuela to Iran, and points between and beyond, the wider world will be muscling its way into th...
United Nations Development Programme
Aliens, Schmaliens? But This We Know: Pakistan Now Chairs the UN’s IAEA
In the continuing tragicomedy of UN news, there are now reports that the director of the UN's Vienna-based Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman,...
Op-eds
At the UN, America Pays, Ahmadinejad Plays
As long as America provides such toys as the United Nations, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might as well play with them - and this week, again, play he did. Ahmadinejad has just treate...
Op-eds
Iran’s Mini-Empire At The U.N.
The United Nations has just created a new "entity" on women's rights, called U.N. Women. Elections to its governing board are now being organized. How long before Iran wins a seat?...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Hollow Prize
It's time Congress pulled the plug on Washington's taxpayer-subsidized Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which has turned itself into a global joke. With Turkey's l...
Op-eds
What Kind of Washington Fools Would Honor Turkey’ s Foreign Minister?
Update (June 16th, 2010 10:20 am): A press assistant at the Wilson Center confirmed this morning that what I wrote below is correct. The ceremonial dinner, honoring Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet...
Op-eds
Al-Shabaab Recruiting in the West
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Madeleine Gruen, Sara R. Westfall Beginning in late 2007, dozens of young men of Somali descent disappeared from diaspora c...
Op-eds
Putting Puntland’s Potential into Play
By Dr. J. Peter Pham In last week's column, I noted that the United States military and intelligence communitie...
Op-eds
UNICEF’s Proliferation-Prone Banker
Does the U.N. read its own resolutions on Iran?
Op-eds
Where’s The U.N. On Iran?
People are being killed in Iran. Where is the U.N.? What institution could be better positioned to relieve President Obama of his worries about America standing up unilaterally for freedom in Ira...
Op-eds
Iran’s Power At The United Nations
With Iran racing down the homestretch toward a nuclear bomb, the United Nations Security Council has spent more than two years expressing "serious concern." By now, Iran is under U.N. sanctions,...
Op-eds
Russia, Georgia, the UN ‘ and Where is Kofi Annan When He’ s Really Needed?
As Russian troops loot, shoot and roll short-range missiles into Georgia, surely UN tradition calls for the Secretary-General to protest this invasion of sovereign territory...
Op-eds
Call it UN-BRIBE
So, while the U.S. Treasury is trying to tighten sanctions on Burma’s thug government, the United Nations has been busy funneling millions of dollars to the Burmese regime — thanks to...
Op-eds
Scandal Central
The United Nations likes to sell itself as a mentor of good governance. But the recent deep-sixing of a damning in-house report suggests it might more honestly advertise itself as an example of h...
Op-eds
In the UN’ s Cash-for-Kim Scandal, Who Got Punished?
In the UNDP welter (see post below) of botched and missing records, violations of the UN’s own rules, derelictions of duty, aid, comfort and dual-use procurement for a murderous totalitaria...
Op-eds
Ban the Old Ways
We are about to learn the meaning of “ethics” in the United Nations administration of Ban Ki-moon. Eight months after Secretary-General Ban took office, promising to “restore tr...
Op-eds
U.N.’s Reading List for N. Korea
Not only has the United Nations been caught funneling cash to the rogue regime of North Korea's Kim Jong Il, but it's now emerging that the U.N. Development Program was ordering up book...
Op-eds
Crying Wolfowitz
For two of Paul Wolfowitz's most prominent critics, Mark Malloch Brown and Ad Melkert, the war over the World Bank presidency could not have come at a better time. Whatever else the ousting...
Op-eds
Call It the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Dictatorships
With Zimbabwe elected Friday to chair the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, we now have the latest poster-child for the usual U.N. Orwellian abuse of the noble mandate, glorio...
Op-eds
More Questions about the U.N. in North Korea
It’s bad enough that the United Nations Development Program office in North Korea has been handing over hard currency to the regime of Kim Jong Il. But a new twist now emerging in the Cash-...