Iran, North Korea votes kill UN’s 1st global arms trade treaty

Edith M. Lederer Associated Press via The Chicago Sun-Times 3/28/2013

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran and North Korea have blocked adoption of a global treaty that would regulate the multimillion-dollar international arms trade.

To be approved, the draft treaty needed support from all 193 U.N. member states.

Supporters of the treaty said that if the […]

Exposing the UN’s dirty little secrets

A gathering of the tortured in Geneva shames the UN Human Rights Council by giving victims not perpetrators a platform to tell their story

Daniel Schwammenthal The Comentator 24 February 2013

The speakers were never meant to live and tell their stories. Their torturers expected them to either submit or die. But somehow these men […]

‘This is a match made in hell’

Joel Rosenberg: North Korea, Iran ‘working very, very closely’ on nukes

WorldNetDaily WND Radio 2/23/2013

Earlier this month, North Korea conducted what appears to be its largest and most sophisticated nuclear test to date, but what may also be emerging from the story is the extent that Iran and North Korea are colluding in their […]

Gallup: Americans Disapprove of Obama Policy on Nearly Every Issue

Tony Lee Breitbart.com Big Government 12 Feb 2012

President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday to a nation that disapproves of the way he is handling nearly every issue, including gun control and the federal deficit.

According to a Gallup poll, 42% of Americans approve of Obama’s gun policies […]

North Korea fires a missile into Obama’s State of the Union

Martin Barillas Spero News 2/12/2013

North Korea defied international warnings on February 12 and carried out its third nuclear test, drawing immediate condemnation from leaders around the globe. Pyongyang said the “successful” test was in response to what it called the “reckless hostility” of the United States, which has led the global charge toward expanding […]

North Korean Ballistic Missile Test: Worse to Come?

Michaela Bendikova The Foundry The Heritage Foundation 12/28/2012

“A single nuclear weapon exploded a hundred miles above the United States could create electromagnetic pulse effects, thereby bringing our entire economy to a standstill,” writes Phyllis Schlafly, a lawyer and conservative political analyst, in her most recent op-ed.

An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), a high-intensity burst of […]

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