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  • Immunity or impunity? Lawsuit seeks to hold UN accountable for Haiti cholera epidemic

    Published October 11, 2013

    Can the United Nations be held legally accountable for its actions in a U.S. court? That question is the crux  of a lawsuit filed this week that wants to hold the world organization accountable for the deaths of thousands of Haitians   in the 2010 outbreak of cholera that still smolders today.

  • UN brewing up new -- and expensive – global 'sustainability development goals'

    Published October 03, 2013

    The United Nations is planning to create a sweeping new set of “sustainable development goals” for the planet that will likely require trillions of dollars of spending on poverty and the environment, a drastic reorganization of economic production and consumption -- especially in rich countries -- and even greater effort in the expensive war on climate change.

  • UN emissions-trading project linked to Syria's chemical weapons arsenal

    Published September 23, 2013

    At the same time the Syrian regime of Bashir Al-Assad began the brutal repression that would quickly spin the country into civil war—and culminate  with the use of chemical weapons against its own citizens-- Syrian officials were  officially registering a deal with the United Nations agency sponsoring the world's largest carbon-trading scheme for an industrial complex known for years  as a “dual-use” facility in the government's production of the same weapons of mass destruction.

  • UN aid support dwindles for North Korea, Syria’s silent partner on chemical weapons

    Published September 06, 2013

    As the United States decides whether to strike Syria for using chemical weapons against its own citizens, another brutal dictatorship that has gotten billions of dollars worth of humanitarian aid via the U.N. is paying very close attention: North Korea.  

  • UN downsizes high-profile special envoy amid signs of donor fatigue

    Published September 03, 2013

    As the United Nations begins to gear up for its new session this month, there are signs that austerity is reaching even the highest levels.

  • UN aid program in Syria firmly linked to the Assad regime

    Published August 26, 2013

    While United Nations inspectors are struggling to reach areas of Syria where the Assad regime allegedly has used chemical weapons, U.N. humanitarian officials are renewing calls for aid to be donated to their domestic Syrian operations, which are run under the close control of the same brutal regime.

  • UN's messy, billion-dollar peacekeeping air charter business hugely unfavorable to US

    Published August 01, 2013

    A follow-up audit to the one released in 2009 also shows that  U.N. agencies largely failed to do what the watchdogs recommended in order to fix the system, although the U.N. is apparently scrambling to straighten out some of the problems now.  Result: many of the same bad practices are still occurring.

  • State Department agency deemed 'critical' to information security is a mess, report shows

    Published July 22, 2013

    An obscure little State Department agency whose work is called "critical to the Department's information security posture" has been in a shambles for years, and is still in chaos, according to an audit report by the department's inspector general released yesterday.

  • Billions spent in Obama climate plan may be virtually useless, study suggests

    Published July 18, 2013

    As President Obama last month launched a sweeping new national program to combat "climate change," including tens of billions of dollars in likely new subsidies for solar and wind power and bio-energy, a separate, groundbreaking study by the National Research Council has warned that those kinds of subsidies are virtually useless at quelling greenhouse gases .

  • Restructure US government to make “huge” green changes in America, study proposes

    Published July 09, 2013

    The Obama administration should dramatically reorganize the relationships between America’s federal departments and agencies, and overcome legal barriers to help install the nebulous principle of “sustainability”  across government, the economy and society at large, according to a new National Research Council study sponsored by many of the federal departments that would be most affected.