This weekend, two staunchly opposing groups, Stand With Us and J-Street, will hold conferences on opposite coasts, setting opposing agendas for U.S.-relations at a time when those relations are in danger of taking a turn for the worse.
Guess who is the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today? Israel. Violating the rights of Palestinian women. At least that is the view of the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). CSW ends its annual meeting on Friday, March 20 by condemning only one of the 193 UN member states for violating women’s rights – Israel.
The Obama administration is using Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remark on the campaign trail about the impossibility of a Palestinian state as an excuse to increase diplomatic pressure on Israel for deep concessions at the UN. Though Netanyahu has made efforts to smooth over the dispute, the White House is refusing to forgive him, suggesting that it is pursuing a plan for retribution, regardless. The result will be to deny Israel strategic depth as it faces new threats.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) threatened to cut off funding to the United Nations if President Obama uses it to bypass Congress on Iran sanctions on Thursday’s “On the Record” on the Fox News Channel. “Here’s what the president needs to
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that “no amount of pressure will cause me to abandon the security needs of Israel” in reaction to reports that the US could cease its support for Israel at the UN on Thursday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Netanyahu said
President Barack Obama is considering agreeing to a United Nations Security Council resolution “embodying the principles of a two-state solution that would be based on the pre-1967 lines between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip and mutually agreed swaps,” a senior administration official has told the New York Times.
Pharrell Williams has partnered up with the United Nations for the third annual International Day of Happiness this Friday, March 20. The organization’s “Happy” day will place “an emphasis on reaching out to young people and engaging them on the issue
Executions are rising sharply in Iran, reaching a 12-year high in 2014, according to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council. The UN called this “deeply troubling” and further criticized Iran for not living up to promises that it would protect ethnic and religious minorities, according to a report at Voice of America News.
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford, just back from visiting the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, joined Breitbart News Saturday to discuss the home of some of the worst Islamic jihadists.
Hillary Clinton’s press performance Tuesday afternoon was, truly, everything Americans could have hoped for from our former First Lady, Modern Joan of Arc, Lady Macbeth, Senate carpetbagger and eternal public Woman Scorned.
In case you forgot, Sunday was International Women’s Day. Five hundred women who gathered at the doorsteps of LAPD headquarters and marched east to the Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights carrying signs reading “Women’s rights are human rights,” “RIP PATRIARCHY” and “#ovarianpsycos,” didn’t forget.
Jane Fonda told the Associated Press Wednesday that patriarchy, not terrorism, is the most burdensome issue facing the world today, and asserted that Islamic militants are likely lashing out because activists like her have challenged their male power structure.
The body count in east Ukraine tops 6,000 as Russian soldiers and pro-Russian separatists continue to violate the “ceasefire agreement.”
(Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday thatIran should commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on its nuclear activity for a landmark atomic deal to be reached, but said the odds were still against sealing a final agreement.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor gave his own version of the Academy Awards during a UN session in New York this week. The “Oscars for Maintenance of International Peace and Security” mockingly awarded Iran, Hezbollah, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinians with Oscars in its very own special categories.
These are times of panic for the Church of Global Warming. Science has failed them.
Economic woes may force Russia to shrink its military budget by 10 percent in 2015. State owned defense conglomerate Rostec vowed to keep an eye on military spending this year while announcing a plan to give Iran Antey-2500 missiles.
General Sir Adrian Bradshaw, NATO’s deputy commander of forces in Europe, told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute that Moscow’s ambitions on Ukraine are “an obvious existential threat to our whole being.”
Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations accused the Islamic State (ISIS, IS, or ISIL) of committing genocide against Muslims, Christians, and other religious minorities.
The 15-member United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that the Iran-backed Houthi rebels “immediately and unconditionally” cede power in Yemen.
Millions of dollars intended to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone have gone missing, according to a national auditor report. Over $3.3 million lack paperwork needed to track where the internal emergency funds are or went. Sierra Leone, which has had
Kofi Annan, who served as secretary-general of the United Nations when the group overwhelmingly supported the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq, claimed at the Munich Security Conference that the United States is to blame for the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS).
Central African Republic ‘peace deal’ collapses instantly as slaughter continues; Nigeria’s Boko Haram attacks towns in Niger, as war expands into region; Houthis complete takeover coup in Yemen
Xinhua, China’s state news outlet, has published a scathing rebuke of Human Rights Watch following HRW’s criticism of Chinese authoritarianism, and its opinion that a proposed Chinese counter-terrorism law would “legitimate ongoing human rights violations and facilitate future abuses.”
The Boko Haram crisis in northern Nigeria continues to rage. On Wednesday, Boko Haram staged a major counter-attack against Cameroon– one of the nations leading an African Union coalition against the terrorist group– launching a bloody rampage through the border town of Fotokol that killed at least 91 villages and wounded over 500, according to the Associated Press.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported Ebola cases in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea rose last week for the first time in several weeks.
Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists are selling children as sex slaves, murdering children by crucifixion, and burying children alive, reported the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child watchdog committee on Wednesday.
Canadian academic William Schabas has resigned from his position as the head of the United Nations’ inquiry into war-crimes allegations in last summer’s Gaza war, which pitted Hamas against the Israeli Defense Force.
Islamic State jihadists are using Sharia courts to dole out barbaric punishments against educated women, children, and other civilians, the United Nations (UN) human rights office has found.
Amnesty International has released a report detailing the horrors of Boko Haram’s attack on the Nigerian town of Baga between January 2 and 7. Among the atrocities witnesses recount is the particularly gruesome killing of a woman while she was in labor, who was slaughtered along with an estimated 2,000 others in the town.
French President Francois Hollande told his counterpart, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not to attend the Paris rally in the wake of the jihadist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish market last week, for fear that the Israeli PM’s presence might upset those troubled with his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“Those who committed these acts have nothing to do with the Muslim religion,” French president Francois Hollande declared on Friday, referring to the massacre of a dozen people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine followed by an intense manhunt that ended with two simultaneous hostage crises during which four more were killed.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is reporting that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has shut down more schools in Syria, leaving over 670,000 children without access to education.
The government of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas began the year with a resounding loss at the United Nations, failing to win a bid for the organization to recognize Palestine as a state. The move failed largely due to one member of the Security Council, Nigeria, abstaining from the vote. That vote, previously a near-guarantee in Palestine’s favor, has turned, and some suggest Boko Haram’s radical Islamist terror in Nigeria’s northeast could have contributed to the pivot.
Lebanon has implemented a new law requiring Syrian refugees to retain a visa before entering the country in an attempt to limit the prodigious flow of refugees from war-torn Syria into their nation.
Radical jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia kidnapped twenty Egyptian Christians in Sirte, Libya, which is 310 miles east of Tripoli. Identities were not released, but experts believe they were Coptic Christians.
Boko Haram kidnapped at least forty boys in Malari village in northeast Borno State, Nigeria. The incident transpired on New Year’s Eve, but due to the town’s isolation, residents only reached the capital of Maiduguri to report it on Friday.
(Inform) Britain joined the United States on Tuesday, declaring that it cannot support a new Palestinian draft proposal calling for peace with Israel within a year and an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by late 2017. Jordan on
New reports on Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on ecology, slated for release in the spring of 2015, appear to be aimed at stoking fires of division between conservatives and liberals. Though contents of the letter have yet to be released, the Guardian predicts that the Pope’s letter on human and environmental ecology “will anger deniers and US churches.”
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