GWPF | 16 Oct 2015 UK Factories Face Switch-Off To Keep Household Lights On “The [Paris] draft is unacceptable. It is an attempt to rewrite the convention (UNFCCC) through the backdoor and does not respect the existing principles and provisions of the very convention under which the Paris agreement is to be housed. It does…
The Guardian | 13 Oct 2015 People who expose wrongdoing on national security and intelligence issues around the world are often given weak or no protection and are often subject to retaliation, creating a “chilling effect on people speaking out”, a United Nations report has found. The report by David Kaye, United Nations special rapporteur…
Prison Planet | 1 Oct 2015 Infowars analyzes translation of speech, revealing crucial information was left out which affected the narrative Russia has proceeded to launch air strikes on ISIS in Syria. But at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, the country’s leader, Vladimir Putin, highlighted how the US and western allies have knowingly perpetuated…
RT | 30 Sept 2015 Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s leading human rights offenders, to the UN human rights council, Wikileaks cables have revealed a “secret deal” suggesting that the British government was a key player behind Riyadh’s nomination. Some of the 61,000 files from the Saudi…
CounterPunch | 29 September 2015 In his Orwellian September 28, 2015 speech to the United Nations, President Obama said that if democracy had existed in Syria, there never would have been a revolt against Assad. By that, he meant ISIL. Where there is democracy, he said, there is no violence or revolution. This was his…
Paul Craig Roberts | 28 Sept 2015 Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the…
The Guardian | 14 Sept 2015 When a United Nations investigator reported the rape of a refugee in Sri Lanka, she did not expect the disclosure to force her into a decade-long legal battle with her employer. Caroline Hunt-Matthes was ostracised and eventually ousted, and it took her nine years to secure redress. By that…
NEO | 1 Aug 2015 “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”… George Orwell Malaysia played the fool this week by pushing for a UN-sponsored international commission on the MH17 shoot down, which it knew would be vetoed by Russia. Its only motivation might have been wanting…
RT | 29 July 2015 [AM editor’s note: how does the UNSC, some members of which have sanctions on Russia, expect Russia to cooperate with this resolution; who also seem to have decided extra-judicially who is to blame? Furthermore, the Dutch led international investigation neglected to include anyone representing Russia on the investigation team.] Russia has…
NZ Herald | 31 May 2015 The boys said they approached the French soldiers because they were hungry. Some were so young they didn’t quite understand the acts the soldiers demanded in return. One boy, 8 or 9 years old, said he did it several times to the same soldier, “until one day an older…