Posted on November 27th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Hossein Mousavian has been acquitted today of charges of spying for Britain and other nuclear powers. He was arrested in May, then freed on bail after several weeks’ detention, then rearrested about ten days ago. [See UN-Truth's last previous post on this intriguing story here. ] The former nuclear negotiator was convicted, however, of working [...]
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Filed under: Human Rights, International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, UN Security Council
Posted on November 27th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The McClatchy newspaper correspondent in Cairo, Hannah Allam, has written a personal ad — looking for a new president of Lebanon: “So, yeah, Lebanon has no president … Now, the Cabinet has assumed interim executive powers and martial law is in effect, with the Lebanese military handling security for a volatile land where fate (and [...]
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Filed under: Lebanon
Posted on November 26th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Despite talking peace at Annapolis, the Israeli Government — more particularly, the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak — are planning to tighten the squeeze on Gaza, by ratchetting up sanctions on 2 December. Meanwhile, intrepid “foreign” journalists are risking all to schlep into Gaza and report to all of us how bad the situation there [...]
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Filed under: Gaza, Israel, Journalism and Journalists, Middle East Peace Process, Palestine & Palestinians, Quartet
Posted on November 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
Carah Ong, Iran policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation in Washington, D.C., has just written an article taking to task American policy towards Iran that was published in MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project), entitled “War Is Peace, Sanctions Are Diplomacy“: “The White House is pressing ahead with its stated [...]
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Filed under: International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA, Iran, UN Security Council
Posted on November 25th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The independent Palestinian news agency, Ma’an, reported today that “Ma’an journalist Hafith Asakra was kidnapped on Saturday evening by five masked gunmen as he headed to work at Ma’an’s main office in Bethlehem. The abductors bound his hands and legs, detaining him for 12 hours. They demanded to use his Ma’an password to post a [...]
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Filed under: Journalism and Journalists
Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN operation in Kosovo — at least for another couple of weeks — is “the most extensive U.N. operation in history, one that wore out its welcome long ago”. But, on 10 December, Kosovans say, they may declare independence, unless a better solution is found in the meantime, which is unlikely. What will happen [...]
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Filed under: Kosovo
Posted on November 20th, 2007 by Marian Houk
… now when will the UN admit that the Millennium Development Goals (MDG, for short) are also the Emperor’s New Clothes, and utterly unverifiable either when they were stated at the millennium in 2000, or when they are supposed to be achieved, in 2015? How could the UN know how many people worldwide live on [...]
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Filed under: Donors, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on November 18th, 2007 by Marian Houk
If this is true — and there is no reason to think it is not (for one reason, it happened before) — this is a scandal. Not because, as the journalist who wrote the account in Haaretz might think, because the Arab states appear to be just out to get Israel. No — it is [...]
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Filed under: Israel, Palestine & Palestinians, Register of damages due to The Wall, United Nations, United Nations Agencies and Programmes
Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The three major news agencies have all covered the just-released “synthesis” report on climate change following the close of the IPCC meeting in Valencia, Spain today. The”synthesis” report will be discussed by some 10,0000 delegates who are expected to participate in the Bali meeting of the UN Conference on Climate Change starting in just over [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Environment, United Nations
Posted on November 17th, 2007 by Marian Houk
A “synthesis” report on the climate prepared by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is being released today by UNSG BAN Ki-Moon, who decided soon after his election that taking on global warming and other signs of climate change would be lofty but not too controversial goals for his term in office. The [...]
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Filed under: BAN Ki-Moon, Environment, United Nations
