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The Tammy Bruce Show
The Vogue whitewash of Syria. more...
Byline
FDD's Claudia Rosett discusses how the United Nations has been ineffective on resolving the crisis in Syria. more...
Syria, Vogue, and the Apologia of Joan Juliet Buck
It’s now 17 months since Vogue published its cover-story paean to the first lady of Syria, “Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert.” Readers were treated to a profile of Asma up close, “the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies,”... more...
Your World
FDD's Claudia Rosett discusses a UN proposal to legalize prostitution worldwide to fight AIDS. more...
The Source
FDD's Claudia Rossett on the dangers of China's efforts to buy up oil industry assets around the world. more...
Happening Now
FDD's Claudia Rosett explains the harsh realities we face in the situation in Syria and that Iran is finding ways around international oil sanctions. more...
How Iran Steams Past International Sanctions
Too often, one man's sanctions become another man's windfall. So it is with Iran sanctions and the minuscule Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, to which Iran's main oil tanker company, NITC, has just reflagged roughly half its fleet. more...
Your World
FDD's Claudia Rosett discusses the ridiculousness of Iran's position on the UN Arms Trade Treaty Panel. more...
Saving Syria from Kofi Annan
Some headlines seem designed to invite a one-word rejoinder, and so it is with a recent article on Slate: “How Kofi Annan Can Save Syria.” Obvious answer: Resign. more...
Ahmadinejad in Rio
It is by now a scene so familiar it’s become routine. At your expense, dear taxpayers of the planet — and especially at the expense of all you colonialist, imperialist, capitalist taxpayers of the United States — the United Nations holds a huge gathering. more...
News Update
The UN Human Rights Council criticizing Canada. more...
Good Journalism at the UN?
With all the corruption at the United Nations, you might think that the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) would have better things to do than pick a fight with a single reporter. But you would be wrong. more...
The John Batchelor Show
The UN's Committee on Information using Iran as its rapporteur. more...
Iran, North Korea, Sudan Rack Up Millions By Trading UN Carbon Credits
The U.N. is funneling millions of dollars worth of tradable carbon credits to corrupt nations worldwide, including Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Uzbekistan in an attempt to encourage clean energy projects in the developing world. more...
Iran, Voice of the UN’s ‘Committee on Information’
It’s quite perverse enough that the United Nations would have a so-called Committee on Information whose members include such censorship-loving regimes as those of Belarus, China, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Zimbabwe and Syria. more...
‘UN Me’ Provides a Valuable Service
Most readers of this website, I suspect, do not need to be told that the United Nations is a joke, a scandal, a cesspit of careerism, corruption, and colossal indifference... more...
“Ambassador” or Not, the UNWTO Has Honored Mugabe
Last week, the Zimbabwean newspaper The Herald published a story that was posted on AllAfrica.com reporting that, in anticipation of the upcoming 2013 U.N. World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) General Assembly meeting scheduled to take place in Zimbabwe. more...
UN Me
In a film that exposes the incompetence and corruption at the heart of the United Nations, filmmaker Ami Horowitz takes us on a harrowing, yet often hilarious, trip through the farcical world of the United Nations. more...
Robert Mugabe Wordt VN-Ambassadeur Voor Toerisme
De Verenigde Naties hebben de Zimbabwaanse dictator Robert Mugabe benoemd tot hun internationale ambassadeur voor het toerisme. De benoeming van Mugabe is onderdeel van het VN-programma Leiders voor toerisme. more...
Yep: Robert Mugabe, UN Leader for Tourism
Surely even the United Nations would hesitate over celebrating Zimbabwe’s longtime despot, Robert Mugabe, as a “leader” of any kind? That’s why, in my previous post, I hesitated to assume the accuracy of a dispatch in the Zimbabwe Herald... more...
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