The Trump Administration Seeks Massive Cuts to the World Health Organization and UN Peacekeeping. Also, the Total Elimination of Funding for UNICEF Mark Leon Goldberg February 11, 2020The budget request released this week by the White House recommends large cuts to US payments to several United Nations entities. This includes a 53% cut to the World Health Organization, which is at the front line of responding to two major global emergencies...
The White House Seeks to Eliminate Funding for UNICEF Mark Leon Goldberg March 12, 2019The budget request released by the White House this week includes massive cuts to international affairs spending, including deep cuts to the State Department and USAID. But also included in the Trump administration's chopping block: UNICEF, the UN agency that ...
American Companies Earn a Handsome Profit from the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg August 27, 2018The United Nations is a boon to American businesses.New research from the Better World Campaign finds that American companies were awarded $1.74 billion worth of contracts from the United Nations last year. That amounts to about 9% of the total contracts a...
PODCAST: Journalist Laura Rozen on the Demise of the Iran Nuclear Deal and What Comes Next? Mark Leon Goldberg May 9, 2018No journalist covered the ins and outs of the negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal as closely as Laura Rozen. She is a reporter with the middle east news website Al Monitor and in the negotiations that lead up to the July 2015 deal, her reporting and h...
Tillerson Out. Pompeo In. What does this mean for the North Korea Talks and Iran Deal? Mark Leon Goldberg March 12, 2018UPDATE: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was sacked via Presidential tweet today, with Trump announcing that CIA Director Mike Pompeo would serve as his replacement. Pompeo is a fierce critic of the Iran Nuclear deal, and his ascension could put the final nail...
6 Takeaways from Donald Trump’s (extremely bellicose) speech to the United Nations General Assembly Mark Leon Goldberg September 19, 20171) War is more likely than it was before his speech This was the first time that I can recall a US president threatening to destroy a country from the podium of the United Nations. Belittling Kim Jong Un as "rocket man," and invoking an extremely bellicose po...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is Just Doing His Job Mark Leon Goldberg August 30, 2017Prince Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. As such, it is his job to call out human rights abuses and threats to human rights around the world. Just today, his office released a new report on repression in Venezuela;...
Trump Wants a Wall on the Border With Mexico. But a new UN Report Shows a Better Way to Stop Illegal Migration to the US Mark Leon Goldberg August 30, 2017In a rabble-rousing speech in Arizona last week, President Trump doubled-down on his pledge to build a wall on the southern border of the United States to prevent would-be migrants from crossing the border illegally. Coincidentally, on that very day, the Unite...
