1 day ago by markyturner

Just finished Samantha Power’s extraordinary book on Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN special rep who died in the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations in Baghdad. It was magnificent. As someone who spent several years writing about the UN in all its flawed crucial complexity, I was prepared to ha ...

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6 days ago by Brenda J. Elliott

Aaron Klein (right), Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily, writes from Tel Aviv: The Palestinian Authority has been negotiating an understanding with the Obama administration regarding a Palestinian threat to unilaterally ask the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state outside of negot ...

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8 days ago by Özge Ersoy

Önceki konuşmalarında fotoğrafçı ve fotoğrafın sjesi zerine yoğunlaşan Bikem Ekberzade ve Özge Ersoy bu hafta daha önce detaylıca değinmedikleri bir konuyu, seyirciyi, ele alıyor.

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12 days ago by NPI

To accurately and sufficiently summarize the Aughts, we at NPI have compiled and organized what we believe to be the defining list of quotes from this decade. Some of these were soundbytes, some were entire news cycles, some were quoted ad nauseam, some are poignant, some are sad, and most are hilar ...

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36 days ago by Anshul

Yesterday, Special Envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration and National Security Council Director, Samantha Power sat down with Jerry Fowler of the Save Darfur Coalition and Layla Amjadi of STAND. They discussed a wide range of topics regarding the recently released policy by the Obama Administration. Click h ...

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38 days ago by Micah L. Sifry

Tomorrow afternoon at 3:00pm EST, Special Envoy Scott Gration and Samantha Power, NSC Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs, are going to sit down at the White House with the leaders of the largest, most vocal advocacy groups on Darfur issue, Jerry Fowler of Save Darfur, and Layla Amjadi, the stu ...

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58 days ago by Diamond Tiger

Since Glenn Beck’s revelation that Anita Dunn considers Chairman Mao to be one of her two “favorite political philosophers”, I of course, had to take a peek at Anita and found something very interesting; she’s married to Robert Bauer of Perkins Coie who is also Barack Obama’s personal lawyer and gen ...

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65 days ago by Christopher Lloyd

This heart-rending documentary by director Greg Barker is the tale of Sergio Vieira de Mellow, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Iraq on Aug. 19, 2003. It was a major turning point in the conflict, with the U.N. pulling out its mission short ...

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69 days ago by Marcello De Giorgio

// // 07 ott Dalai Lama: perche’ no di Alessandro Aresu sezione: Politica globale L’ascesa della Cina è una straordinaria opportunità… La Cina si apre al mondo… I cinesi ci compreranno più scarpe… Eccetera eccetera. Quante volte abbiamo sentito queste formule negli ultimi dieci anni? Siamo ormai pas ...

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80 days ago by Keith Porter

In all the hustle of the United Nations and G20 coverage last week, I failed to call your attention to this tidbit. While at U.N .headquarters, President Obama paid tribute to the blue helmeted U.N. peacekeepers with a wreath and a meeting with top donors of peacekeeping troops. All well and good–an ...

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