Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist
Joseph A. Klein is the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom.
Most Recent Articles by Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist:
No other country in the Middle East comes anywhere close to Israel’s record as a free democratic state.
Obama admin. engaged in "diplomatic malpractice," specifically at the Human Rights Council, more generally at the United Nations as a whole, by indulging their hatefests. Hopefully, President Trump will succeed in reversing this destructive course
Maddow and MSNBC make fools of themselves on live TV
March 17, 2017
The MSNBC host's "breaking story" releasing Trump's tax return on air breaks apart
When President Trump and President Xi Jinping meet for the first time next month, exploring avenues for further constructive cyberspace cooperation between China and the United States should be amongst the issues they discuss
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, who comes to the UN from his glass house of Jordan, should not be throwing stones at the United States
Perhaps the Security Council would not have failed yet again to deal effectively with the Syrian crisis if a more narrowly tailored consensus resolution had been proposed.
She will aim to sharply reduce the rampant waste in the UN budget, perhaps starting with the often overlapping, over-the-top pro-Palestinian agencies and programs the UN has established over the years.
The Secretary General has unfortunately fallen prey to the hysteria surrounding the executive order that President Trump signed last weekend relating to refugees and visitors to the United States
Ending Business as Usual at the United Nations
January 29, 2017
The U.S. will be “taking names”
Ambassador Samantha Power’s Swan Song at the United Nations
January 14, 2017
The Obama administration has engaged in the romantic fiction that the UN as it is presently structured is worth the billions of dollars we pour into it
Failures of the UN “Talking Club”
December 31, 2016
Mr. Trump's characterization of the United Nations as a “club for people to get together, talk and have a good time” is only partially correct. As he recognized in a tweet, the UN as it is structured today is actually causing more problems
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power shamelessly defended the U.S. abstention as an act to save the so-called "two-state" solution
President Obama Throws Israel to the Wolves
December 24, 2016
President Obama delivered his coup de grace in an act of spite against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Obama administration has allowed Russia to get the upper hand militarily, with devastating consequences that the most recent Security Council resolution can soften for survivors only slightly
The UN today is a bloated organization, which is rightly perceived as non-transparent, non-accountable, ineffective and, at times, hypocritical
But Iran, freed of sanctions, is likely to be the spoiler
Engaging with China need not be a zero sum game: Obama Administration’s Pointless Confrontation with China over the South China Sea
Palestinians are using the United Nations to avoid direct negotiations with Israel, to delegitimize Israel’s Jewish roots and to use the leverage of so-called UN-created “international law” to pressure Israel into accepting a suicidal “peace.”
UNESCO’s Shameful Dejudaization of Jews’ Holiest Sites in Jerusalem
October 21, 2016
UNESCO’s resolution which denies a connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem, is an embarrassing stain on the pages of UN history
Business as usual in Syria while UN Human Rights High Commissioner demands UN boycott against Israel
Unchecked Barbarism in Syria Continues
October 1, 2016
UN is reduced "a frothing of words." Any real diplomatic solution to the Syrian conflict, which has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, displaced millions of people, precipitated a refugee crisis of historic proportions, is further away than ever
UN Panel Accuses the U.S. of Systematic Racism Against African-Americans
September 29, 2016
United Nations and its dysfunctional Human Rights Council, which counts some of the world’s worst human rights abusers as its members, should butt out of domestic affairs of oldest continuously functioning constitutional democracy in the world
Dangerous Plans Hatched by Obama and UN for Refugee Resettlement
September 22, 2016
Admission of refugees and migrants from Syria and other terrorist infested countries should be suspended
Ban Ki-moon’s Disappointing Valedictory Speech
September 21, 2016
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon could have used his valedictory speech to the General Assembly for some self-reflection on what he could have done better during his two terms.
Hillary Clinton Uses the UN to Advance her Progressive Globalist Agenda
September 20, 2016
For Hillary Clinton, the UN remains a useful instrument to advance her “progressive internationalist” agenda
Senate Must Act Now to Disavow President Obama’s Climate Change Treaty
September 18, 2016
The United States Senate should convene at the earliest opportune time to consider the Paris Agreement as having been deemed submitted to it as a treaty
UN Security Council Falters in Face of North Korean Defiance
September 10, 2016
UN Security Council resolutions, economic sanctions, and resumption of negotiations with the rogue state, which has repeatedly broken previous agreements, will not stop North Korea
Obama Uses UN to Bypass Senate’s Treaty Consent Authority
September 6, 2016
Paris Agreement on climate change, Obama did not even go through the motions. He bypassed Congress altogether
The United Nations’ Botched Mission in South Sudan
August 20, 2016
The UN's protection of the alleged perpetrator Machar, added to the UN peacekeepers' failure to adequately protect civilians when they had the chance, adds up to a botched UN mission in South Sudan
UN Refugee Agency Cannot be Trusted
August 4, 2016
Congress should give serious consideration to mandating a different registration system that reduces, if not eliminates, UNHCR’s role in the intake process