united nations

The United Nations, or UN, includes most or all of the world's countries as member states, and has several purposes. Among them is accomplishing the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and fostering discussions between nations to bring about world peace. It was founded in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II.

Some critics argue that the United Nations compromises the sovereignty of independent nations by its direct role in influencing international peacekeeping efforts, which is largely the responsibility of the United Nations Security Council.

Others argue that before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a false arguments to the United Nations Security Council, based on the claim that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction, a claim that would later be discredited.

Whether the United Nations is too quick to act, or too slow to act, it is a large force for change around the world, and will continue to attract controversy while it works toward accomplishing its goals.

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• Ranan Lurie 2009 cartoon winners – first place to Robert Ariail

  
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  My apologies for not being more timely. The United Nations Correspondents Association and the UN Society of Writers and Artists announced the winners of the 2009 Ranan Lurie/UN Cartoon Awards earlier this month.  First place, and $10,000, went to Robert Ariail, cartooning in The State . Ariail’s winner is a ...
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• Youve heard it here! ITS NOT SOCIALISM - ITS COMMUNISM

  
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  http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-not-socialism-its-communism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email Its here. Its now. It is practicing in DC, in the tarnished, tainted halls of our government; it sits in the White House, it pervades every hallway, every desk. And we arent presenting a ...
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• UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Liberia Warns Liberians Against Interfering in Guinea

  
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  According to local media reports, the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Representative in Liberia Ellen Margrethe Loj has warned Liberians against interfering in the situation in Guinea. The reports quote Ms Loj who is also head of the peacekeeping mission in Liberia as saying in the provincial capital ...
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• United Nations Year in Review 2009

  
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  The United Nations takes on a range of tough global challenges *2009* was the year in which the world absorbed the full impact of the worst global economic setback since the Great Depression, was startled by the arrival of a novel influenza virus that quickly reached pandemic scale, and was shocked by a crisis in ...
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• Immediate release of your part payment of us$2.5million with Nigeria government.

  
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• UNDP to Restart Operations In North Korea Beginning In January

  
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  Kim Jong-il’s personal ATM is on the verge of re-opening again: The U.N. development agency plans to restart its operations in North Korea in February after a two-year hiatus, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, citing a U.S. radio station saying on Saturday. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman at the ...
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• The Anniversary of the Gaza War: Who “Won” after Operation Cast Lead?

  
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  Israeli Defense Forces, commanded by the government of Ehud Olmert, started Operation Cast Lead on 27 December 2008. The operation took the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, including many civilians, and of 13 Israelis. The officially-stated aim was to halt rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. “For the first time in ...
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• Christopher Monckton on Scientific American’s Defense of Climate Alarmism

  
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  In an editorial article in its December 2009 issue, “Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense,” the popular-science magazine Scientific American claims that the Climategate revelations and the findings from an increasing number of scientists who question climate alarmism are ignorant, irrational and ...
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• Letter: The U.N. and the Afghanistan Election Controversy

  
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• The United Nations of Global Fascism (Part ONE of THREE)

  
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• The United Nations of Global Fascism (Part TWO of THREE)

  
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• UN and the Gaza conflcit

  
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  On the first anniversary of the launch of a three-week Israeli military offensive in Gaza, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon Sunday, Dec. read more
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• UN and the Gaza conflict

  
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• The United Nations of Global Fascism (Part THREE of THREE)

  
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• INTERPOL, a "global policing doctrine", and the President of the World

  
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  A curious Presidential Executive Order, signed recently by Barack Obama, has raised considerable confusion and perturbishment (is that a word?) by some observers on the right. The order related to INTERPOL and was originally reported by Steve Schippert of ThreatsWatch (emphases mine):The White House released an ...
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• Msg. Alert?

  
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• >> Detroit Terror Attack Is a Major Intelligence Failure

  
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• UN Humor

  
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• LibLink … Nick Clegg et al: An appeal for the victims of Gaza

  
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  Nick Clegg is a lead signatory for a letter in today’s Observer calling on the international community to exert pressure on Israel to abide by UN security council resolution 1860 and bring an end to the suffering of the people of Gaza. Here’s what it says: One year on from Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, ...
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