LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett The United Nations’ refugee agency is claiming that asylum seekers do not represent any kind of national security risk to the U.S. Refugees pose zero risk to security, according to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokeswoman Vannina Maestracci. Instead of perpetuating terrorism, she said, refugees…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kitty Testa Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, both Republicans, have introduced a bill to withhold US financial support of the United Nations in response to the US’ failure to veto the UN Security Counsel’s Resolution 2334. The resolution declared that Israeli settlements in territories occupied since 1967 as…
by Micah J. Fleck Sarah Palin has a message for our new president-elect: leave the “shackles” of the United Nations behind, and never look back. According to The Daily Caller: Sarah Palin called on President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to send a message to the world by leaving the United Nations after the Israel settlement vote….
by Kody Fairfield In all the uproar over the leaked documents showing that Democratic nominee for President Hillary Clinton allegedly saying, “Why can’t we just drone this guy?” in reference to silencing Wikileaks, and its editor/founder Julian Assange, the United Nations (UN) felt the need to weigh in. On Monday, the UN released a statement essentially saying that the…
by Kody Fairfield On Tuesday, a group of United Nations (UN) experts told the United States that the nation owed black citizens reparations for not yet having confronted its “racial terrorism.” The UN working group on people of African descent warned that the black people in the US were facing a “human rights crisis.” Their…
by Kitty Testa President Barack Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly today for the last time as President of the United States. In that address, he admitted that the most powerful states in the world have not been able to solve the world’s biggest problems. He lamented what many see as populist and isolationist…
By Elena Weissmann The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, made a shocking admission when he told reporters he had yielded to Saudi Arabia’s demands in response to big money. The confession came several days after Mr. Ban removed a Saudi-led coalition from a blacklist of armies that kill and maim children. In March 2016, the same…
By Jonah Bennett The Obama administration is pushing for the United Nations to end a 2011 embargo on arms shipments to Libya in order to save the current regime from falling to the Islamic State, but some experts caution a U.S. arms shipment may end up in the hands of terror groups. In an effort to…
By Russ Read Iranian state media makes a constant point to push Sen. Bernie Sanders to the masses, but Iranians are quite worried about the possibility of a Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump presidency. No prior U.S. election has infatuated Iran as much as the 2016 U.S. presidential race, according to Nasser Karimi, an Associated Press journalist based…
By Jonah Bennett The United States decided Monday it wants to provide arms to the Libyan government, just five years after overthrowing the regime and accidentally providing weapons to Islamic militants. Several other countries have joined the U.S. in asking the United Nations to grant an exemption to the five-year-old arms shipment ban currently imposed on…