TPMmuckraker: Ah, the Man with the Iron Mustache is leaving the international arena — but not before attempting a thoroughly embarrassing and wholly unsympathetic maneuver. Less than two weeks before the White House announced his resignation, Ambassador John Bolton’s U.N. mission blocked an effort to celebrate the end of slavery in our hemisphere. I thought […]
First we learn that an admirer of Malkin was allegedly sending those fake anthrax letters to Democrats, or those who do not agree with every damn thing Bush says. Now we have another right-wing lunatic, one Atlas Shrugs, calling for diplomats and people at the State Department to be murdered. From Glenn Greenwald: Pam Atlas, […]
Now this is really interesting: The United States strongly criticized the No. 2 United Nations official on Wednesday for a speech he gave that accused the U.S. government of leaving Americans in the dark about the world body’s good works. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton called Tuesday’s speech by Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown a “very, […]
The United Nations is offering help – We have yet to accept it. UNITED NATIONS OFFERS TO HELP HURRICANE VICTIMS IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE RegardingHurricane Katrina, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that it has been in contact with the United States Government. Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland, in a […]