Antonio Guterres Warns Thousands of Employees that the UN is Running Out of Money Mark Leon Goldberg October 8, 2019In a highly unusual letter sent to thousands of UN staffers, Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned of an impending budget shortfall facing the United Nations."To date, Member States have paid only 70 per cent of the total amount needed for our regular ...
With Democrats Now in Charge, UN Budget Gets a Big Boost in the U.S. House of Representatives Mark Leon Goldberg May 13, 2019Elections have consequences. Last November, Democrats won majority of the United States House of Representatives which is the budget making body of Congress. Late last week, the key sub-committee that writes the budget for much of the foreign policy apparatus ...
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...
The Trump Administrations Wants to Save Money at the UN. But At What Cost? Mark Leon Goldberg March 29, 2018At the Security Council yesterday, Nikki Haley announced that the United States would pay no more than 25% of the cost of UN Peacekeeping. Currently, the United States is assessed 28.4% of the cost of UN Peacekeeping. This is a rate that is negotiated every th...
I’ve been covering John Bolton Since 2005. Here’s what I have learned Mark Leon Goldberg March 23, 2018This is an excerpt from a piece I wrote for The Daily Beast I first started covering John Bolton in 2005. At the time, the United Nations was gearing up for its largest-ever meeting of heads of state to mark the organization’s 60th anniversary. The fete wa...
WATCH: UN Secretary General Invokes Physics to Explain Why American Leadership is Necessary for World Order Mark Leon Goldberg June 21, 2017In a press conference at the United Nations today, Secretary General Antonio Guterres appealed to the laws of physics to explain why American leadership, despite some recent moves by Donald Trump, is still something for which the world pines."When someon...
A Rare Moment of Bi-Partisan Consensus in Washington Mark Leon Goldberg December 21, 2016Amidst all the partisan rancor in Washington, it's a small miracle when any key piece of legislation is passed.For the first time in 15 years, Congress passed what's known as an "Authorities Act" for the State Department. Authorization bills like this dire...
Nikki Haley as UN Ambassador Mark Leon Goldberg November 23, 2016 Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina is President Elect Donald Trump's pick to be the next Ambassador of the United Nations. To many around the UN who are wondering how the twice-elected governor of South Carolina views foreign policy: you are not ...
Samantha Power: “It is not hard to understand why some people feel let down that a woman was not chosen as the next UN Secretary-General.” Mark Leon Goldberg October 20, 2016Campaigners in and out of the United Nations had hoped that for the first time in 70 years, the United Nations would be lead by a female Secretary General. The #She4SG campaign emerged to support this cause, and a coalition of member states formed to advance t...
