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Imagine your child’s school teaching him how wonderful dictatorships are by having him and his friends model their very own group of dictatorships as part of their education. Like so many other Orwellian nightmares in the American educational system, this one is very real and takes place through the Model UN program. The Model UN program teaches American students that global government is better than national government and that the corrupt kleptocracy on Turtle Bay is the ideal state of mankind. Finally it trains them to put American presidents on trial for violating United Nations laws. Twenty-two Model UN events...

Did United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan hightail it to Moscow to check in with his handpicked UN reform man Yevgeny Primakov within weeks of William Safire’s New York Times expose on alleged scandal in the Oil-For-Food Program? The first of Safire’s groundbreaking Oil-For-Food investigative stories ran in mid-March, 2004. Here’s Annan’s Moscow itinerary as documented by The Russian Federation: "Annan arrived in Moscow on Sunday, April 4, 2004 where he had an early working dinner with Evgeni (sic) Primakov, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation." On the following day, Annan visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where...

Did United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan hightail it to Moscow to check in with his handpicked UN reform man Yevgeny Primakov within weeks of William Safire’s New York Times expose on alleged scandal in the Oil-For-Food Program? The first of Safire’s groundbreaking Oil-For-Food investigative stories ran in mid-March, 2004. Here’s Annan’s Moscow itinerary as documented by The Russian Federation: "Annan arrived in Moscow on Sunday, April 4, 2004 where he had an early working dinner with Evgeni (sic) Primakov, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation." On the following day, Annan visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where...

The other day a 13- year-old girl in my class approached me with a question I never thought she would ask - about the cultural and political differences between Shiite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq. She wondered why American leaders were focusing on whether 9/11 could have been prevented, while a radical Shiite cleric may be planning new attacks on Americans. My student went on to offer suggestions on how the situation should be handled. It was not simply her interest in international issues that got my attention, but that this student had shown little interest in reading, let alone...

Iraq attempted to declare war on the United States Tuesday morning at Topeka's 39th Annual Model United Nations, but the action failed.Model United Nations Delegate Lindsey Smith of Emporia High School was told to formally withdraw her resolution by the United Nations Security Council.At least 880 students from across Kansas participated in the event Monday and Tuesday at the Maner Conference Centre and Capitol Plaza Hotel.Model United Nations coordinator Jenay Weekly, who is the gifter facilitator for Robinson Middle School, said that the Model United Nations is probalby the second largest in the Midwest, the largest being in Chicago.