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UNascar: UNICEF comes to NASCAR’s Nextel Cup
Canadian racecar driver Jacques Villeneuve made his NASCAR Nextel Cup debut yesterday at the famous Talladega Superspeedway in the UN-blue, number 27...
Responding to Attacks on the Law of the Sea Treaty
Yesterday I noted that the PTR did not seem keen to let us respond to their attack on the Law of the...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Fails to Publish our Letter to the Editor
On September 22nd the PTR ran an article by Bill Steigerwald in opposition to the UN Convention on the Law of the...
Schiffer: Burma Needs the International Community
The Stanley Foundation's Michael Schiffer argues in a recent Des Moines Register op-ed that the United States must work with the international...
Thomas Friedman & Brand America
Thomas Friedman is once again finding his way back to the light after pulling himself up off the mat. Friedman was knocked...
Bolton Supported the Law of the Sea Before He Opposed It
It turns out that John Bolton's recent lobbying against the Law of the Sea represents a major flip-flop. I've known about this...
Blaming China and Russia not enough
The Washington Post has been a supporter of the Burmese people for years and what they have to say on the current...
Bolton Lobbying Against Law of the Sea
I've just learned that John Bolton is meeting with conservative senators, urging them to oppose the Law of the Sea. A Senate...
It’s Time For Progressives to Support the Law of the Sea
U.N. basher John Bolton has supposedly been talking to the very conserative Senate Republican Steering Group, a shadowy entity that does not...
The Dog(s) That Didn’t Bark
I'm not there, but my guess is that President Bush's speech to the U.N. General Assembly this morning was met by a...
Vroom Vroom!!! The UN’s Revving Up for Global Warming
Christian Science Monitor, "U.N. Revs Up Over Global Warming": UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - The annual summertime retreat of the Arctic icecap, greater...