Tag: United Nations

Macron baguette

Baguette Listings: Why Food Is Politics

On November 30, the French baguette was formally added to the United Nations’ Intangible Cultural Heritage list.  The bureaucrats had finally gotten hold of a glorified bread stick, adding it to their spreadsheet list of cultural items worthy of preservation.  A delighted French President took the moment to gloat at […]

Vote for nazism at UN

Why Nazis Overwhelmingly Support Ukraine Against Russia

Documented here will be the strong global support that Ukraine receives from the international racist-fascist (or “nazi”) movement. As I headlined on November 6th and documented, “U.S. and Allies Vote For Nazism at U.N.” I mentioned there that “Ukraine is the only country that has almost always been joining America […]

Planet

U.N. Projects The Planet’s Unlivable Areas By 2070 & 2100

The U.N. and International Red Cross have just published their 64-page study, “Extreme Heat: Preparing for the Heatwaves of the Future”, and it contains maps showing which areas of this planet will probably be unlivably hot by 2070, and then by 2100.   (See more-detailed maps in https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2024792118 and especially at […]

Kandahar motivational poster

Doing Business With Taliban Govt

The best part of the UN Security Council discussion Thursday regarding the situation in Afghanistan was the candid remarks by the Russian and Chinese ambassadors on the accountability of the Taliban government in Kabul for the crisis gripping that country today, just an year after the vacation of the NATO […]

UN in New York

Punishing Whistleblowers At The United Nations

The United Nations prides itself on exposing, monitoring and noting the travails and vicissitudes to be found on this troubled planet.  It also prides itself on being the premier international institution that protects, or at the very least keeps an eye out for, the principles of the Charter that underpin […]

Russian Defense Ministry

Russia Steals The Thunder In ‘Wheat War’

In a master stroke of military diplomacy, Russian Foreign Ministry announced today that it is “withdrawing” the garrison in Snake Island, the hotly contested Black Sea property from where Ukrainian forces were evicted in March in the early days of Moscow’s special military operation. This decision comes a day after […]

ICC

NYT Presents Strong Case for a War-Crimes Prosecution Against Russia

Whereas numerous instances of U.S. war-crimes have been documented in some news-reports well enough to be successfully prosecuted in international war-crimes tribunals (but the U.N.-authorized agency the International Criminal Court cannot prosecute U.S. war-crimes but only war-crimes by third-world countries’ leaders), such well-evidenced instances by Russia are far rarer. However, […]

Bush and Blair

Is Putin A War-Criminal For Invading Ukraine?

I almost always agree with the courageous whistleblowing former UK Ambassador Craig Murray, but not including this from him on April 25th: “I condemn the invasion of Ukraine and I have no hesitation in calling Putin a war criminal. However for precisely the same reasons so are Bush and Blair […]

Albatross

Migratory Birds Of Mass Destruction

The UN Security Council held an extraordinary event on April 6 under the rubric Arria Formula Meeting on Biological Security regarding the biological activities in countries including Ukraine. Predictably, the US and UK representatives didn’t show up at the event and the western media also blacked out the proceedings. But […]

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Ukraine Makes Strange Bedfellows

The world community is aghast over the acute tensions between the United States and its NATO allies on one side and Russia on the other, which is poised critically on the brink of a military confrontation, the like of which the world didn’t see in the entire Cold War era. […]