UN Human Rights Council: Overview & Causes for Concern
In 2006, the United Nations General Assembly created the Human Rights Council to replace the badly discredited Commission on Human…
UN Human Rights Council: The Universal Periodic Review
When the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution to create the Human Rights Council in 2006, their plan included…
Numbness on the Nile
Washington, DC – On Thursday morning, the heads of America’s intelligence services went to Capitol Hill to testify before the…
Avoiding a Jimmy Carter Moment
Washington, DC – When Barak Obama went to Cairo in June 2009, he was lauded for seeking “a new beginning…
Hard Reality
Washington, D.C. – This year’s State of the Union address (SOTU) has now been parsed, analyzed, applauded (80 times), celebrated…
The SOTU, Hope and Change
Washington, DC – When the world tunes in for the State of the Union (SOTU) address next week, viewers will…
Happy Thanksgiving to our Troops
On October 3, 1863, in the midst of the bloodiest war America has ever fought, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation…