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United Nations General Assembly

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    April 23, 2012

    Live: The MATA Festival Brings Brooklyn's Drones And Whirs To Roulette

    2012 MATA Festival Roulette Friday, April 20 Better than: Figuring out how to play the Koyaanisqatsi German Blu-ray on an American TV. Between Charles de Gaulle interpreted by a coloratura soprano, a Deliverance-style duel pitting a player piano against a live pianist, and a 13-piece chamber suite ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    Nicaraguan Diplomat Killed Self With Drain Cleaner

    ​Police sources tell the New York Post today that Cesar Mercado, the 34-year-old Nicaraguan diplomat found dead in his South Bronx apartment last month during the U.N. General Assembly, committed suicide.

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Breaking: Nicaraguan Diplomat Found Dead in The Bronx (Updated)

    ​Diplomats, with all of their power as foreign emissaries, tend to keep a low news profile. If you don't notice, whenever anything happens to them, it makes big news, as they are for all intents and purposes, foreign powers on American soil. Well, expect to see this on the front cover of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    To Truly Go Green, Eat Bugs; Should GM Fish Be Labeled?

    ​Phil Ross, a San Francisco-based chef and artist, hosted an insect-based meal at Brooklyn Kitchen this past weekend, as a means to promote a tasty, sustainable diet of animals you can raise yourself at home. [NY Times] Less than a month after Eataly was unleashed on New Yorkers, a roundup of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Rightbloggers See Chicago's Olympics Snub as Obama's Foreign Policy Crisis -- Which They Cheer

    Last week rightbloggers were outraged when President Obama struck a conciliatory tone in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. They didn't like that, nor did they like Obama's warm reception there, and predicted this love-fest would only encourage our adversaries, with dire consequences for th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Critics Want Ahmadinejad Booted Out of Hotel

    ​Back on July 13 advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran called on local hoteliers to refuse service to Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he comes here to visit the U.N. General Assembly on September 15, his first trip to the U.S. since the murderously bogus Iranian election that retu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    U.N. (But Not the U.S.) Comes Out Big for Gay Rights

    ​Back on July 13 advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran called on local hoteliers to refuse service to Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he comes here to visit the U.N. General Assembly on September 15, his first trip to the U.S. since the murderously bogus Iranian election that retu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    A Thousand and One Arabian Nightmares

    ​Back on July 13 advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran called on local hoteliers to refuse service to Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when he comes here to visit the U.N. General Assembly on September 15, his first trip to the U.S. since the murderously bogus Iranian election that retu ... More >>

  • News

    November 20, 2007

    Rudy's Ties to a Terror Sheikh

    Giuliani's business contracts tie him to the man who let 9/11's mastermind escape the FBI

  • News

    November 6, 2007

    How We Delight Our Enemies

    A former light unto the world, We, the People, have been darkened by this administration

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2007

    Robert Mugabe Meets Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

    A former light unto the world, We, the People, have been darkened by this administration

  • News

    January 9, 2007

    Our Human Rights Show

    Countries abusing their prisoners say they are following America's practices

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2006

    Bush Bash Is On: Cops Give Go-Ahead to U.N. Protest March

    Countries abusing their prisoners say they are following America's practices

  • News

    April 4, 2006

    Supreme Court Judges Bush

    At last, Bush's assumption of supremacy over Congress and the courts is in peril

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2004

    The Grateful Dead

    At last, Bush's assumption of supremacy over Congress and the courts is in peril

  • News

    September 14, 2004

    Network Problems. Please Stand By.

    Kerry gets poked in the eye during the thrashing of CBS

  • News

    May 7, 2002

    Nation

    Kerry gets poked in the eye during the thrashing of CBS

  • News

    November 6, 2001

    Pakistani Cops Kill Protesters

    Angry Crowd Seizes Express Train, Trades Fire With Police

  • News

    June 13, 2000

    Beating the Backlash

    A U.S. Negotiator Details the Fight to Expand Feminist Gains at the UN’s Special Session on Women

  • News

    May 30, 2000

    Worldwide Women

    Beijing+5 Looks at the Global State of Women’s Rights

  • Specials

    March 2, 1999

    Letters

    Beijing+5 Looks at the Global State of Women’s Rights

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    Giuliani Trashed

    Beijing+5 Looks at the Global State of Women’s Rights

  • News

    September 8, 1998

    The Un-Gerry

    At the United Nations, Ferraro turned her back on Blacks, Jews, Latins, and Liberals

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