Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It really gets on your nerves, sometimes.
At a checkpoint this morning, the soldier took my passport, then barked: “Where are you from?” he asked.
“You mean where was I born? That’s different than where I am from. It’s written on my passport — New York”, I said.
[Huda reported that she was stopped at [...]
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Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Marian Houk
It appears that just as the revelation that Holocaust bank accounts had been retained for decades by Swiss banks without much effort to identify survivors or heirs was used to wrench modifications in the secrecy provisions that were the Swiss banking system’s greatest pride and asset, the disaster caused by the recent cyclone in Myanmar [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Marian Houk
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter discussed details of a prisoner-swap plan with Hamas leaders during a just-concluded visit to the region, according to the head of the Carter Center Office in Ramallah, Timothy Rothermel.
There was apparently disagreement between Hamas and Carter on this – and not only on Carter’s proposal for a 30-day unilateral [...]
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Posted on April 18th, 2008 by Marian Houk
This comment, giving links to some very interesting articles about the UN, the U.S., and Rwanda, came in this week from johnjohn — it was attached to one of our posts from 2007 here , and it reads:
“re: Louise Arbour & War crimes (hers),
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041708D.shtml”
So, turning to the link mentioned, here [...]
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Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Marian Houk
The operative words are: could have been.
As Agence France Press put it, “Five undersea cables were damaged in late January and early February leading to disruption to Internet and telephone services in parts of the Middle East and south Asia. There has been speculation that the sheer number of cables being cut over such [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Marian Houk
UN SG BAN Ki-Moon returned from a visit to the site of the 11 car bombing in Algiers, in which 17 UN staff members died, with the UN Flag that was torn in the force of the blast:
BAN told UN staff in NY upon his return: “At the end of my visit to Algiers, the [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Marian Houk
… And maybe it was. But there were two car bombings — and the other one went off in another neighborhood, outside Algeria’s Constitutional Council and the neighboring Supreme Court. The two explosions were just minutes apart, at about 9:30 am in Algiers.
A report on the All Africa website said that UN [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2007 by Marian Houk
And that is about all I have to say on the international organization and its largely boring and hypocritically-pious designated “days” — on which many managers and employees of the UN’s Department of Public Information have been able to build boring careers — though the victims of this devastating disease (including their survivors who are [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The World Health Organization has just announced sanctions — very light ones — against the NYTimes for breaching a news embargo.
It is surprising, because hardly anybody who wants news coverage would dare do anything against the NYTimes. In fact, it is far more normal for UN spokespersons to deliberately leak advance copies of important UN [...]
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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 [...]
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