Samantha Power Is Outraged Syria Wants to Save Civilians in Aleppo

August 1, 2016 She condemns the letter from Damascus which expresses a desire to save those dying due to her government’s savage terrorist friends. Fresh on the heals of her shameful UN security council performance, US ambassador Samantha Power is embarrassing herself and the United States with her comments on Syria yet again. The Syrian…

As the Saudis Covered Up Abuses in Yemen, America Stood By

By Samuel Oakford July 30, 2016   The United Nations has long been bullied by its most powerful members, and U.N. secretaries-general have usually been forced to grit their teeth and take it quietly. But few nations have been more publicly brazen in this practice than Saudi Arabia, and earlier this summer, U.N. Secretary-General Ban…

Kidney Valley

29 July 2016 Kavre province in Nepal has been dubbed “Kidney valley”: there’s hardly a household in which a family member hasn’t sold his or her kidney on the black market. There is no legal way for patients to obtain donor organs other than from a relative. In the absence of a suitable familial match,…

Putin is watching happily from the sidelines as NATO tears itself apart

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a ceremony of receiving credentials in Moscow’s Kremlin on Wednesday in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Jul. 29, 2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin seemingly cannot believe his luck as he watches NATO cause near irreparable harm to itself from the sidelines.  NATO has been a major force in…