Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist

The Obama Administration Benefits From WikiLeaks

The Huffington Post is running an interesting article today entitled “The WikiLeaks Release: Blame the State Department, Not the World’s Media,” by a writer for the Guardian and the London Sunday Times, Simon Jenkins. He pointed out that the material leaked by WikiLeaks, and published by the New York Times and other newspapers, not only lacked top-secret classification. The State Department itself had made them available to some 2-3 million authorized users of the State Department’s own worldwide intranet.

A Progressive Thanksgiving Day Proclamation For President Obama

The President of the United States issues an annual Thanksgiving Day Proclamation. In keeping with the Center of American Progress’ suggestion that President Obama use his executive powers to circumvent Congress on a number of key issues that have stalled in Congress, why not also use the Thanksgiving Day Proclamation in a more progressive way?

Another Left-Wing Media Apologist For George Soros and Attack Dog Against Glenn Beck

In this week’s New Yorker Magazine “Comment" column, Hendrik Hertzberg writes about Glenn Beck’s George Soros shows. Hertzberg, a left-wing columnist and former speech-writer for Jimmy Carter, accuses Beck of “turning facts into lies."

If You Love China’s Government So Much, Take Your Billions, Move To China And Never Come Back

In my last post, I discussed George Soros, the self-hating Jew. Today, I focus on George Soros, the naturalized American citizen who hates his adopted country. As Soros put it in his own words, the United States is a "declining superpower" whose "democracy is in deep trouble." Soros advocates policies that would rearrange the entire world financial order. He believes in "global governance," led by the United Nations.

George Soros, The Self-Hating Jew Whose Money Cannot Buy Him Humanity

Glenn Beck caused quite a stir last week with his three part series on George Soros. Even Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, got into the act and condemned Beck for what Foxman called his "over the top" remarks.

To Save American Lives From Ruthless Terrorists: More Waterboarding, Please

The CIA waterboarded 9/11 al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times in March 2003, and fellow Al Qaeda commander Abu Zubayda at least 83 times in August 2002. Waterboarding was also used on a third al Qaeda detainee named Nashiri.

The Obama Administration Bows Before The UN Human Rights Star Chamber

Once the Obama administration decided last year to join the circus known as the United Nations Human Rights Council, it would only be a matter of time before the U.S. faced judgment day on its own human rights record before this dysfunctional UN body.

Sharron Angle Was Right to Raise Concerns About Sharia Law in America

Sharron Angle, the Tea Party Republican Senate nominee running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, has been roundly criticized by the mainstream press for raising concerns about the imposition of Sharia (Islamic) law in some United States communities. "It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to even take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States," Ms. Angle said.

Obama Brands His Immigration Reform Opponents As “Enemies” While Reminding Us That He Is Not “King”

Remember back in 2007 and 2008 when Barack Obama was going around the country as the self-proclaimed post-partisan, post-racial candidate running for president? He rhapsodized about moving beyond red states and blue states towards one United States of America.

The United Nations’ Socialist Land Redistribution Scheme

Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, is the author of a report presented on October 20, 2010 to the United Nations General Assembly, which perfectly illustrates the socialist ideology that is all too prevalent amongst United Nations bureaucrats and its so-called 'experts.'

National Propaganda Radio Enforces Sharia In America by Firing Juan Williams

National Public Radio has just killed two birds with one stone with the firing of its ten-year analyst Juan Williams for comments he made on Fox News. Williams had shared his feeling that he gets nervous when he sees fully garbed Muslims board an airplane. NPR took the remark out of context as a pretext for firing him.

What The Mainstream Press Neglected To Tell You About The United Nations Summit

The mainstream media was very selective in covering the events surrounding the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) summit and the opening of the new General Assembly session, which over 100 heads of state including President Obama attended. The media focused on President Obama's two bland speeches last week and on the incendiary 9/11 conspiracy charges that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered during his speech.

President Barack Obama Coddles International Outlaws At the United Nations

President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that “Normal practices of diplomacy . . . are of no possible use in dealing with international outlaws." Rather than listen to FDR's advice, President Barack Obama squandered yet another opportunity to confront today's international outlaws during his annual visit to the United Nations.

Global Academic Council Questions The IPCC’s Credibility

In response to sustained criticism of the credibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ("IPCC"), the IPCC and United Nations officials asked the Inter Academy Council to review the processes and procedures of the IPCC and make recommendations for changes that would enhance the objectivity and accuracy of the IPCC reports.

Ground Zero Mosque Funding – Media Matters Tries To Change The Subject

Media Matters, the George Soros-funded attack machine directed against Fox News and other conservative media, is trying to discredit Fox News’ reporting on the Ground Zero mosque. Its latest salvo is to paint Fox News as hypocritical for partnering with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (Fox News-parent company News Corp.’s second-largest shareholder with holdings of 7 percent) while the network blasts the funding ties of the Saudi Prince and other foreign Islamists to the Ground Zero mosque’s Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.

Who Is Really Funding the Ground Zero Mosque?

For weeks, critics of the 13 story $100 million mega-mosque complex planned for the immediate Ground Zero vicinity have been asking where the funding will be coming from. Its sponsors refuse to provide any information and have even refused to rule out taking contributions from other countries including Iran and Saudi Arabia. When a reporter from the local Fox station in New York, Charles Leaf, caught up with the mosque complex developer Sharif el-Gamal and asked him to explain the funding, el-Gamal ducked the question. The reporter, interviewed last night on the “O’Reilly Factor” by Laura Ingraham (filling in for Bill O’Reilly), shared results of his own investigation.

The United Nations Continues To Push its Wealth Redistribution Agenda

The United Nations is pressuring the world's most developed countries to pony up more money to fund the world’s all-time biggest give-away, wealth redistribution aid program to the developing countries, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals, scheduled to be achieved by 2015, are eight internationally-agreed targets which aim to reduce poverty, hunger, maternal and child deaths, disease, inadequate shelter, gender inequality and environmental degradation.

North Korean UN Ambassador Issues A Chilling Warning

Ambassador Sin Son Ho, Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ("North Korea") to the United Nations, gave a rare press briefing at UN headquarters in New York on June 15, 2010. His subject was what he called South Korea's "fabricated" claim that its warship Cheonan was torpedoed by North Korea's military.

The New UN Sanctions Resolution Against Iran

The Vote The UN Security Council approved a resolution on June 9th imposing a fourth round of sanctions on Iran in response to its continued nuclear enrichment program in violation of prior Security Council resolutions. The vote was 12 in favor, 2 against (Brazil and Turkey) and 1 abstention (Lebanon).

The Israeli Blockade and International Law

Does Israel's blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, and its enforcement of the blockade, comply with international law? For the reasons I explain in this article, the answer is yes.