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World Environment Day: Pay attention before it’s too late

June 6, 2011 By Marc Brodine

If the environment continues to heat rapidly, permafrost will melt ever faster, releasing greenhouse gases to such an extent that it overwhelms any possible improvement by human action.

Libya and the law of unintended consequences

April 13, 2011 By Conn Hallinan

Coming to grips with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) intervention in the Libyan civil war is a little like wresting a grizzly bear: big, hairy, and likely to make you pretty uncomfortable no matter where...

UN panel exonerates Guatemalan president in bizarre murder-suicide

January 14, 2010 By Emile Schepers

On Jan. 12, there was a bizarre twist in the investigation by a special UN panel of the death of a right-wing attorney last year. According to the UN sponsored International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala,...

Rome Food Summit is a flop

November 20, 2009 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

There was little good news for the world's billion hungry people at the UN World Food Organization (FAO) Summit held November 16 - 18 in Rome.

UN General Assembly denounces U.S. blockade of Cuba

October 30, 2009 By Emile Schepers

For the 18th consecutive year, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted to condemn the economic blockade that the United States has maintained against socialist Cuba.