Remembering 1960s Afghanistan, the photographs of Bill Podlich

Patrick Traylor The Denver Post 1/28/2013

In 1967, Dr. William Podlich took a two-year leave of absence from teaching at Arizona State University and began a stint with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to teach in the Higher Teachers College in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he served as the “Expert on Principles of […]

Shame! UNESCO Promotes Syria to Human Rights Position

Daniel Halper The Weekly Standard 11/18/2011

The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported yesterday that the UNESCO committee on human rights had accepted Syria as a member:

A short time after UNESCO, the UN’s organization for education and science, accepted the Palestinian Authority as a full member despite strong U.S. and Israeli opposition, it is now Syria’s […]

Republican lawmaker ends hold on Palestinian aid

Donna Cassata Associated Press 11/7/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Palestinians are slated to receive some $200 million in U.S. security assistance after a top House Republican stopped blocking the money.

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, informed the Obama administration in recent weeks that she no longer would block $50 […]

Jordan’s King Abdullah on how no one trusts Obama’s government

Barry Rubin Opinion The Daily Caller 10/26/2011

Earlier this week, The Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth interviewed King Abdullah of Jordan. Here’s how King Abdullah responded to Weymouth’s question, “Do you and other leaders in this area believe you cannot rely on the U.S.?”

“I think everybody is wary of dealing with the West. … Looking […]

HHS Website Advocates Early Sexualization of Children

Raven Clabough The New American 25 August 2011

The United States Department of Human Health Services seems to be pushing for the sexualization of young children. According to the HHS website, children are in fact “sexual beings.” This revelation comes around the same time as a group of psychologists are pushing to decriminalize pedophilia. The […]

UNESCO Edits The Jews Out Of History (Again)

Matthew Knee Legal Insurrection 7/23/2011

A recent United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report on Arab contributions to science has declared Moses ben Maimon (also known as Maimonides or Rambam), generally considered the greatest of medieval Jewish philosophers and theologians (and incidentally, among the most prominent physicians of his day) to have been […]

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