forbes.com - 1/15/2009
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Truly, I had plans to write this week about something other than the United Nations. But over at Turtle Bay, here they go again. To chair the 2009 governing board of the U.N.'s flagship agency, the multibillion-dollar globe-girdling United Nations Development Program, dedicated to promoting good ...
guardian.co.uk - 1/21/2009
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guardian.co.uk —
The new Obama administration is willing to talk
to Iran "without preconditions" and will work towards the...
abolition of nuclear weapons, the White House said today. The Obama foreign policy agenda that appeared on the White House website said: ...
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President Barack Obama willing to negotiate with Iran ...
salon.com - 1/12/2009
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salon.com —
[updated below -- Update II (Obama's prior NIE
statement)] Regarding Barack Obama's statements about Iran yesterday during...
his ABC News interview, Charles Davis makes an excellent point (h/t Jonathan Schwarz ): President-elect Barack Obama in an ...
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Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - ...
nybooks.com - 1/18/2009
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nybooks.com —
COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE The central recommendation of
this article is that the US must engage Iran...
directly and without preconditions, one of the primary recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. These distinguished authors have a firm grasp of the ...
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How to Deal with Iran - The New York Review of Books
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At UN’s Flagship Agency, New Chairman of the Board Is…Iran
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Jerry Gordon comment:
Claudia Rosset will be the featured speaker on January 16th at the Tiger Bay Club in Pensacola Florida. The topic is the United Nations. My report will follow.
What do Obama and Susan Rice propose to do about this?
by Claudia Rosset, Forbes.com , Jan. 15, 2009 ...
CLAUDIA ROSETT: “To chair the 2009 governing board of the U.N.’s flagship agency, the multibillion-…
Instapundit —
... CLAUDIA ROSETT: “To chair the 2009 governing board of the U.N.’s flagship agency, the multibillion-dollar globe-girdling United Nations Development Program, dedicated to promoting good governance and ending poverty, the U.N. has now picked–wait for it–the Islamic Republic of Iran.” ...
Foul and Disgusting News
Daily Pundit —
Iran Wields The Gavel At The UNDP - Forbes.com
Truly, I had plans to write this week about something other than the United Nations. But over at Turtle Bay, here they go again.
To chair the 2009 governing board of the U.N.’s flagship agency, the multibillion-dollar globe-girdling United Nations Development Program, dedicated to promoting good governance and ending poverty, the U.N. has now picked–wait for it–the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This decision–reached last Friday–has escaped public notice, perhaps because ...
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