By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS | Wed May 16, 2012 7:22pm EDT  (Reuters) – Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential report on Iransanctions-busting seen by Reuters on Wednesday. Iran, like Russia, is one [...]

May 12, 2012 By Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison Sen. Dick Lugar’s defeat in a Republican primary this week has not been attributed, as nearly as we can tell, to his 1979 trip to Moscow with Joe Biden.  Then, the two members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee left the bosses of the Kremlin with [...]

May 8, 2012 Sovereignty: Even if he’s not re-elected, the president hopes to leave behind a treaty giving a U.N. body veto power over the use of our territorial waters and to which we’d be required to give half of our offshore oil revenue. The Law Of The Sea Treaty (LOST) has been lurking in [...]

UN’s correspondent on indigenous peoples urges government to act to combat ‘racial discrimination’ felt by Native Americans Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 May 2012 18.46 EDT A United Nations investigator probing discrimination against Native Americans has called on the US government to return some of the land stolen from Indian tribes as a [...]

By George Russell Published April 20, 2012 FoxNews.com The upcoming United Nations environmental conference on sustainable development will consider  a breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars from wealthy countries to poor ones, and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected from the effects of the very [...]

By George Russell Published April 10, 2012 FoxNews.com A battle waged by the U.N.’s top internal watchdog against fraud, waste and abuse, backed by the U.S., to bring more daylight to the world organization’s internal operations has wound down — and the U.S. is the loser. The idea, to put  the reports of the agency [...]

By Bassem Mroue and Elizabeth A. Kennedy Associated Press Tuesday, March 27, 2012 BEIRUT (AP) — Syria has accepted a peace plan by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan that includes a cease-fire by the Syrian government, but the bloodshed persisted as intense clashes between government troops and rebel fighters spilled across the border into Lebanon, officials [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Wednesday, February 8, 2012 The governments in Russia and China very much want to uphold the principle that every now and then the state must crush people who want freedom. That is why they worked together to veto a fairly toothless United Nations resolution condemning the regime in Syria and [...]

By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent, Cairo 5:03PM GMT 04 Feb 2012 Russia and China braved Arab and Western fury tonight by vetoing a UN resolution calling on President Bashar al-Assad to step down. The two powers’ refusal to back an Arab League plan for Syria came despite the vote coming within hours of the [...]

World body uses sustainability rhetoric for power grab By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Washington Times Thursday, February 2, 2012 The United Nationsis raising the alarm that unless the world’s governments take drastic action to impose strict development controls, humanity is in grave peril. So what else is new? On Jan. 30, the U.N. High-level Panel [...]