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‘Cowboys’ May Be Running the World Food Program, but Donations Keep Coming

October 27, 2019

The World Food Program may be receiving millions of more donations from the Trump administration than under past presidencies, but its management is skidding around amid complaints of sexual harassment, retaliation, abuse of authority and, most startling, rape, according to a new external survey. Under the leadership of David Beasley, a former South Carolina …

UN Agencies, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Guess Who Trump Considered for the UN Job in 2016? A Democrat

October 25, 2019

by Laura E. Kirkpatrick

Tulsi Gabbard, the United States Democratic representative from Hawaii, met with Donald Trump immediately after his election in November 2016. Gabbard became one of the first people to talk to him and his Republican camp at their base in Trump Tower in New York, and the first of a handful of Democrats to do …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Hillary Clinton on Trump’s Foreign Policy: It’s All About Waiting for His Next Tweet

October 16, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

Hillary Clinton glided onto a stage in Manhattan with the luxury of now being a cool-eyed outsider who can sharply question foreign policy decisions being made by the Trump administration on such controversial places as China, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan. Clinton was the keynote speaker at the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s daylong …

Asia, Human Rights, Syria, US Foreign Relations

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WORLDVIEWS

Why Wait Until Trump Starts Talking to the Paintings?

October 14, 2019

by Irwin Arieff

In early 1974, fresh out of journalism school, I walked into the offices of the newly created Federal Energy Office in Washington and asked for a job. Within days I was back — a freshly minted writer-editor in the public affairs office of an agency launched in response to an oil embargo imposed on …

Peace and Security, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS

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The Oscars of International Politics: A #UNGA74 Recap

September 26, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

This year’s opening session of the United Nations General Assembly stood out for revealing the stark divide now defining international relations: the split between globalists and patriots. On this week’s UN-Scripted podcast, PassBlue reporters Kacie Candela and Stéphanie Fillion look at the similarities in speeches at the high-level debates, between Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro …

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Globalists vs. Patriots at the UN: A ‘Great Fracture’ Revealed

September 24, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion

After most of the world leaders spent a day teaming up to fight climate change at the Climate Action Summit, the next day strongmen opened the high-level debate of the United Nations General Assembly, showing a growing split between nationalist and globalist leaders. “I fear the possibility of a great fracture,” UN Secretary-General António …

General Assembly, US-UN Relations

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At the UN’s Major Climate Event, Greta Thunberg Asks, ‘How Dare You?’

September 23, 2019

by Sonah Lee

The United Nations Climate Action Summit kicked off in New York with powerfully direct statements by Secretary-General António Guterres and several youths invited to speak in a panel set up in the vast General Assembly Hall. They faced an audience of national leaders gathered from across the world at a conference that was not …

Climate and Environment

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Highlights of the UN General Assembly’s Opening Session: A Podcast on What to Expect

September 18, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

The 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on Tuesday, Sept. 17, which means that the world’s leaders — mainly heads of state and heads of government and their entourages — are heading to New York City for the climate change meeting on Sept. 23; the annual speechmaking, called the general debate, …

General Assembly, US-UN Relations

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Where’s Kelly Knight Craft? She Is Neither in Ottawa Nor at the UN

August 26, 2019

by Irwin Arieff

Donald Trump must have known just what he was getting into when he named Kelly Knight Craft to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. But does Knight Craft understand the humiliating position the president is putting her into? Knight Craft, the soft-spoken wife of a billionaire coal executive from Kentucky, demonstrates …

Secretary-General, Security Council, The Trump Years

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Who Is Kelly Knight Craft? A Podcast to Get to Know the New US Ambassador to the UN

August 21, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion and Kacie Candela

She calls herself a homemaker, a philanthropist and a consultant, but who, exactly, is Kelly Knight Craft, the newly confirmed United States ambassador to the United Nations? This week, UN-Scripted, PassBlue’s new podcast series, features veteran journalist and PassBlue columnist Irwin Arieff, who describes how Knight Craft will handle all the hot files at …

Security Council, The Trump Years, US-UN Relations

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Pompeo Finds Little Appetite at the UN for His Iran Strategy

August 20, 2019

by Dulcie Leimbach

In the middle of a muggy August afternoon in New York, the United Nations Security Council gathered once more to figure out how to “maintain peace and security” in the Middle East. But the recurring topic always leaves conversations wide open for interpretation by the Council’s 15 members. The concept by Poland as Council …

Middle East, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Strongmen to Kick Off the UN General Assembly Session in September

August 14, 2019

by Stéphanie Fillion

Donald Trump will shake hands with Emmanuel Macron, Jair Bolsonaro and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. But will Benjamin Netanyahu; Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel be there, too? The 74th opening debate of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts on Sept.17 and ends on Sept. 30; the general debate begins on Sept. 24. With most …

Climate and Environment, General Assembly, US-UN Relations

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The Climate Is on the Loose, Especially in Rotterdam

August 12, 2019

by Jeroen Spangenberg

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands — Record heat waves have crippled a number of cities this summer, one most visibly the Netherlands’ second largest, Rotterdam. Experts point to climate change. According to new data widely reported from the World Meteorological Organization and Copernicus Climate Change Program, July equaled if not surpassed the hottest month in recorded …

Cities, Climate and Environment

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The UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Is in Hot Water, Again

August 5, 2019

by Thalif Deen

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which has been undermined by a sharp cut in United States contributions, has been embroiled in a scandal that threatens to jeopardize its very future. A report from the agency’s Ethics Office has found “credible and corroborated” evidence that the senior management of Unrwa engaged in “sexual …

Middle East, Secretary-General, UN Agencies, US-UN Relations

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Kelly Knight Craft: A ‘Very Impressive Individual’ or ‘Unfit to Serve’?

July 31, 2019

by Irwin Arieff

The Senate has confirmed Kelly Knight Craft to be Washington’s top ambassador to the United Nations, even as a key Democrat pronounced her “unfit to serve.” The move ends a seven-month vacancy in one of the country’s most senior diplomatic posts. The July 31 vote on Craft’s nomination was 56 to 34, with 5 …

US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations

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Donald Trump

‘Cowboys’ May Be Running the World Food Program, but Donations Keep Coming

Guess Who Trump Considered for the UN Job in 2016? A Democrat

Hillary Clinton on Trump’s Foreign Policy: It’s All About Waiting for His Next Tweet

Why Wait Until Trump Starts Talking to the Paintings?

The Oscars of International Politics: A #UNGA74 Recap

Globalists vs. Patriots at the UN: A ‘Great Fracture’ Revealed

At the UN’s Major Climate Event, Greta Thunberg Asks, ‘How Dare You?’

Highlights of the UN General Assembly’s Opening Session: A Podcast on What to Expect

Where’s Kelly Knight Craft? She Is Neither in Ottawa Nor at the UN

Who Is Kelly Knight Craft? A Podcast to Get to Know the New US Ambassador to the UN

Pompeo Finds Little Appetite at the UN for His Iran Strategy

Strongmen to Kick Off the UN General Assembly Session in September

The Climate Is on the Loose, Especially in Rotterdam

The UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Is in Hot Water, Again

Kelly Knight Craft: A ‘Very Impressive Individual’ or ‘Unfit to Serve’?

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