A Plea From the Iranian People
Akbar Ganji : Iran
Iran's leading dissident implores UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to reprimand the Iranian government for its human rights abuses and provide moral support for the suffering Iranian people.
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Made in USA
Perry Anderson : Kofi Annan
Two books about Kofi Annan illuminate the controlling relationship between the US and the United Nations.
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Khalilzad: Good News and Bad for UN
Ian Williams
Zalmay Khalilzad promises be a more effective US ambassador to the UN, but is that a good thing?
2006
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Annan's Principled Pragmatism
Although Kofi Annan's tenure was shadowed by political catfights, he leaves the United Nations as one of its most successful secretary generals.
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John Bolton's Greatest Hits
Ian Williams : US Foreign Policy
Exactly how much damage did John Bolton do during his tenure at the United Nations? Let us count the ways.
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A Devil's Bargain
The United States may well have its way and exclude Venezuela from the UN Security Council, in retribution for Hugo Chávez's diabolical roast of George W. Bush. But doesn't the world have larger issues to worry about?
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Ban's First Challenge?
South Korea's quiet-spoken and principled Ban Ki-moon, who has just been nominated to replace Kofi Annan as the UN Secretary General, may find it difficult to confront US unilateralism.
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Low-Key Leader for High-Anxiety Times
South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon now has a virtual lock on succeeding Kofi Annan as UN Secretary General. Does he have what it takes to be a mediator between Bush's Washington and the rest of the world?
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Look East for a New UN Leader
The election campaign for the UN's next Secretary General is the most transparent in history, but the politics are as murky as ever. As diplomatic wrangling continues, one thing is clear: The next leader will come from Asia.
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Bush's Selective Perception
President Bush's address to the UN General Assembly was less disdainful than earlier speeches, but it shined a light on the President's willful blindness to the complexity of the problems facing the Mideast and the world.
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The UN After Lebanon
The UN's mixed record on the war in Lebanon proves we should lower our expectations of what it can meaningfully achieve.
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Cease-Fire and Frustration
After thirty-one days of war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and more than 1,000 dead, the United Nations has finally passed a cease-fire. Now what?
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The UN's Mideast Mission
The United Nations can be a useful tool in settling the current crisis in Lebanon and Gaza, but only with US support. It is up to President Bush to get on the phone to Ehud Olmert and tell him to stop.
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Say Goodbye to Bolton
Ian Williams : US Foreign Policy
Selection of a new UN Secretary General is too important to be engineered by the whims and prejudices of John Bolton. It's time for saner voices in the Administration to tell the UN ambassador his time is up.
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The People Versus AIDS
If the United Nations is to keep its promise to grant people with AIDS universal access to treatment by 2010, it will be because activists are holding world leaders accountable.
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The UN Bites Back
: George W. Bush Administration
If the Bush Administration is serious about UN reform, it should replace Ambassador John Bolton and stop linking payment of dues to action on reform.
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UN to US: End the Abuse
Ian Williams : US Foreign Policy
UN Deputy Secretary Mark Malloch Brown's measured reprimand of the Bush Administration was not an attack. It was a call for real US leadership instead of the bullying tactics of John Bolton.
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The Bolton Archipelago
John Bolton's grandstanding vote today opposing the establishment of a UN Human Rights Council might please hard-core isolationists. But no one else.
2005
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The Perils of UN Reform
Stephen Schlesinger : US Foreign Policy
Long-awaited reform efforts at the United Nations have fallen far short of Kofi Annan's original vision. But despite John Bolton's antagonism, there has been progress.
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Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
Dilip Hiro : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
By insisting on its right to develop the full range of nuclear technology, Iran has become a Third World hero.
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On President Bush's Recess Appointment of John Bolton...
Calvin Trillin : George W. Bush Administration
The job's too vital to be left unfilled. So Bush will stiff the Senate now--and name Bolton anyhow.
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Bolton Sent to UN
Ian Williams : George W. Bush Administration
The conservatives who applauded the President's courage in making a recess appointment to John Bolton are normally strict constructionists.
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Aristide in Exile
Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide attributes his falling-out with Washington to a disagreement over privatization.
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Bolton Chases French Ambassador Up Tree
Calvin Trillin : Presidential Appointments & Nominations
John Bolton and the French Ambassador have it out at the UN.
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deadline poet
Calvin Trillin : Presidential Appointments & Nominations
An advance look at John Bolton speaking to the UN Security Council.
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Bush's Perverse UN Pick
Ian Williams : George W. Bush Administration
John Bolton's career has been dedicated to subverting the UN.
2004
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The Right's Assault on Kofi Annan
How the neocons created a "scandal" to punish a critic of US foreign policies.
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The UN Deserves an Apology
Robert Scheer : Presidential Election 2004
"I want to cast my vote in favor of the United Nations."
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Mutiny in Iraq
Who will follow the Bush clan off this precipice, and who will refuse to jump?
2003
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Whose Problem, Whose Solution?
Ian Williams : Iraqi Reconstruction/ Occupation
The new UN resolution doesn't even try to bring the Iraqi occupation into line with international law.
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The Will of the World
Jonathan Schell : Peace Activism
The peoples of the earth have examined the case for war and rejected it.
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Powell's UN Presentation
Phyllis Bennis : National Coalition of Education Activists
Even if everything Powell said was true, there is not enough evidence to justify war.
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Christian Soldiers on the March
Jennifer Block : Reproductive Rights
Bush's international policies on reproductive health and rights have been a Christian fundamentalist's dream.
2002
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Making 34 Million Friends
Emily Biuso : Reproductive Rights
The night the Bush Administration refused to grant the UN Population Fund an already-promised $34 million dollars, Jane Roberts was so outraged she couldn't sleep.
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Subverting the UN
Richard Falk & David Krieger : Bill Clinton
To save the UN from the White House's destructive unilateralism, other key nations will have to stand up to its bullying.
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A New Middle East Approach
Jerome M. Segal : Israeli/Palestinian Peace Negotiations
It's time for the UN Security Council to impose "externally directed separation."
This week: Political shifts in the U.K.; Roberto Lovato and Jeanvieve Williams talk about "Juan Crow," a matrix of anti-immigration laws; and Ross Tuttle and Scott Horton look at the chaos in Guantanamo, as the first detainees head to trial. (13mb mp3)
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