Epstein Secrets

ing it can find. Sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union and others are pinching Mr. Assad's cronies. But they are not enough. A United Nations arms embargo — Russia and Iran are both still selling arms to Damascus — and the toughest possible comprehensive economic sanctions are long overdu

passed U.N. members also adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. By the end of the 20th century, •. Secretary General Kofi Annan — now the United Nations' special envoy for Syria — was EFTA00702011 arguing that states existed to serve their people, rather than the other way around. And by 2005 all t

ices contributed to civil unrest throughout the Arab world. High and fluctuating oil prices have caused political challenges across the globe, from Burma and Nigeria to the US and China. As these events have shown, the rapid transmission of price increases to poorer consumers often results in politi

whom he can turn. Mideast advisor Dennis Ross has left; Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, departed for a post at the United Nations; and Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns will in all likelihood leave when a new secretary of state is appointed or a few months later. In Januar

lled "pivot" toward the Pacific, where the U.S. has spent a great deal of diplomatic energy strengthening economic and military relationships with Burma, Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, and other Southeast Asian nations in an effort to counterbalance China's rise. (In November, Obama also announ

As a student of a Hebrew parochial high school in New York, I wish to express my opposition to the World Calendar Reform proposal soon to come before the United Nations. This proposal, which would move the Jewish Sabbath to other days of the week, would have disastrous effects on Jewish religious life, thus impairing

gnized by the Nobel Committee for their work on behalf of their own people: Most recent winners - Rigoberto Menchu of Guatemala, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Lech Walesa of Poland - were honored primarily for 398 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017485 4.2.1