Israel Tab for West Bank Settlements $14B

More than $14 billion has been spent on Israel's West Bank settlements during the past four decades, according to a study released Friday, one of the most comprehensive attempts to assess the total expenditures for the communities.

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President Barack Obama says the US and its allies are discussing "a package of potential steps" they could take if Iran snubs a uranium enrichment deal.

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November 10 marked the 34th anniversary of the UN General Assembly's passage of the infamous "Zionism is racism" resolution.

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UNITED NATIONS - Arab U.N. delegates circulated a draft resolution on Monday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council.

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Afghanistan's election commission has canceled Saturday's presidential runoff and proclaimed President Hamid Karzai victor of the war-ravaged nation's tumultuous ballot.

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It appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.

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We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December.

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The war over the war in Gaza is heating up. Next week, the United Nations General Assembly will consider the tendentious Goldstone Report, the highest profile exercise in blaming the victim in the U.N.'s tawdry history.

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In Pakistan, a devastating car bomb tore through a congested market in the northwest city of Peshawar, killing as many as 101 people, many of them women and children.

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"Taliban militants killed six U.N. foreign staff in an attack on an international guest-house in Kabul on Wednesday, deepening concerns about security for a presidential election run-off due in 10 days.

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"US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN's top investigator of such crimes said.

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The Chinese government should immediately account for all detainees in its custody and allow independent investigations into the July 2009 protests in Urumqi and their aftermath.

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For most of the past few years, liberals who claim to care about human rights have pointed to the disaster in the Darfur region of Sudan as the prime example of the failure of the international system to act against genocide.

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Hmmmm...don't hear any announcements about the UN investigating the "Human Right" of housing in Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, any of the African nations, Egypt, Lebanon, southeast Asia...I could go on.... So much for the U.N. being an objective arbiter of Human Rights.

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Is NSPD-51 and HSPD-20: National Emergency Illegal?

President Obama declared a "National Emergency" today, October 24, 2009, because of the Swine Flu, but can that declaration lead to the U.S.

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Dr. ElBaradei Mohammed ElBaradei, about to retire as director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, pulled a rabbit out of his hat Wednesday, Oct. 21 to save the Vienna talks with Iran on the future of its enriched uranium from breaking down on its third day.

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Four International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were due in Tehran Sunday, Oct. 25 for their prearranged visit to the newly-discovered uranium enrichment facility near Qom.

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This article provides a transparent picture of how Wall Street and politicians honeymoon while WE THE PEOPLE foot the bill and have gotten nothing for our investment in them from the newly printed trillions that sooner or later will hyper-inflat the economy in my opinion.

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As I read the very latest UNHCR report, I could not believe that I was not looking at an Onion parody.

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BEIRUT - A U.N. investigation into explosions in south Lebanon indicated on Sunday that Israel had planted spy devices on Lebanese land in what a senior U.N. official said would be a violation of a ceasefire agreement.

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After months of investigation, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released a report addressing accusations from some humanitarian groups that its use of white phosphorus (WP) munitions in the Gaza War was a violation of international law, as the report distinguishes between the use …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised a lengthy diplomatic battle to "delegitimise" United Nations charges that Israel committed war crimes in the Gaza Strip, an official said on Saturday.

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In a special session, 25 of the body's members voted in favor of the resolution that chastised Israel for failing to cooperate with the U.N. mission led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone. Another 6 voted against and 11 abstained...

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A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has pushed more than 1 billion people into hunger in 2009, U.N.

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"The newly-installed president of the United Nations General Assembly, Ali Abdussalam Treki, has said that homosexuality is "not really acceptable"

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The Real Reason President Obama Won the Nobel Peace Prize (w/Poll)

From the outset, I concede that I was a surprised as anyone else including YOU and President Obama.

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