US Accounts for Global Surge in Military Spending

UNITED NATIONS - After declining in the post-cold war era of the early 1990s, global military spending is on the rise again – threatening to break the one trillion dollar barrier this year, according to a group of UN-appointed military experts. The 16-member...

read more

No Troops Yet Offered for UN Force in Iraq

UNITED NATIONS - The dramatic increase in kidnappings of foreign nationals in Iraq is threatening to undermine the creation of a new multinational security force aimed at protecting UN employees and humanitarian workers who are planning to return to the...

read more

Regime Change in Iraq a Sham, Say Mideast Experts

UNITED NATIONS - Despite the positive responses Monday from UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and members of the Security Council who praised the U.S. "transfer of sovereignty" to an interim government in Iraq, Middle East experts and political analysts dismiss the...

read more

US Abandons War Crimes Exemption

UNITED NATIONS – Faced with the prospect of a humiliating defeat, the United States abandoned its proposal to seek Security Council exemption for U.S. soldiers from possible war crime charges in future UN peacekeeping operations overseas. Unable to muster the...

read more

Aid Agencies Forced to Leave War Zones

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – As violence against civilians and humanitarian workers escalates in the world's politically troubled regions, the United Nations and major relief groups continue to shy away from countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and the Democratic...

read more

One Down, US Seeks Second UN Resolution

UNITED NATIONS, June 9 (IPS) - After securing a unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution supposedly granting "full sovereignty" to Iraqis, the United States is shifting its focus to winning a second decision that would protect its troops from possible war...

read more

UN’s Integrity Questioned – Again

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - When U.S. President George W. Bush desperately sought UN assistance last month to organise elections in Iraq and help form a new interim government, some senior UN officials bragged the United States was crawling back to the world body on bended...

read more

House Ad

Last Seven Days Click to show Seven Days Ago Click to show Six Days Ago Click to show Five Days Ago Click to show Four Days Ago Click to show Three Days Ago Click to show Two Days Ago Click to show Yesterday's Page Click to go to the Archive List
Randolph Bourne Institute