Friends in High Places
Ian WilliamsWritten By: Ian WilliamsPublished: June 14, 2015 Last modified: June 9, 2015It helps to have friends in international politics and currently there are many examples of how it trumps any...
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Now you see It, Now you don't. Names on the Offenders' List.
United Nations ReportAlthough Left Off List of Offenders, Israeli Crimes Against Children Detailed in ReportBy Ian WilliamsLeila Zerrougui, the secretary-general’s special representative for children...
View Article50 Shades of Grey remaindered: From Sanders to Syriza, Moving Right is Wrong...
50 Shades of Grey remaindered: From Sanders to Syriza, Moving Right is Wrong for Democratic Socialists!42/http://www.tribunemagazine.org/2015/07/ian-williams-42/Written By: Ian WilliamsPublished: July...
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Two Cheers for Obama!
TribuneWritten By: Ian WilliamsPublished: August 7, 2015 Last modified: August 8, 2015Attacked almost as fervently by the left as by the right, Barack Obama is now doing what second-term presidents...
View ArticleNuance not Slogans for new non-New Labour Foreign Policy
Tribune : Ian WilliamsPublished: September 27, 2015 Last modified: September 22, 2015As Robin Cook said, foreign policy must have an ethical dimension. He was cannily aware that nations have interests...
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Why China has a P5 seat, and Japan is unlikely to!
Opinion: Why China is in the Security Council and Japan is NotBy Ian WilliamsFrom InterPRess ServiceReprint | | Print | Send by email |En españolIan Williams is Senior Analyst, Foreign Policy in...
View ArticleNo Easy Way Out in Syria
Tribune October 24 2015Written By: Ian WilliamsPublished: October 24, 2015 Last modified: October 20, 2015Ten years ago, every country in the United Nations adopted “the Responsibility to Protect”, a...
View ArticleThe Sort of Triumph of the Sort of Will!
Letter from America – Ian WilliamsWritten By: Ian WilliamsPublished: December 19, 2015 Last modified: December 15, 2015There are shades of euphoria from supporters of the Paris Agreement on Climate...
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UK Labour and the Bomb
Letter From America: Ian WilliamsWritten By: Ian WilliamsPublished: November 22, 2015 Last modified: November 22, 2015Marshall Islanders shine light on nuclear hypocrisyClement Attlee and Ernest Bevin...
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Letter from America – Ian WilliamsWritten By: Ian Williams Tribune : January 20, 2016It’s a long road from when I interviewed Bernie Sanders for Tribune as mayor of small town in Vermont, or as the...
View ArticleRed Flags in old and new England?
Tribune Red Flags in old and new England?: Ian WilliamsComparisons of British and American politics often throw up superficial similarity. Nonetheless, the primary polling in the United States and...
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Huffpost on Boutros Ghali
Boutros-Ghali Outclassed Albright, Clinton & Helms 02/18/2016 09:42 am ET | Updated 2 hours agoIan WilliamsAuthor and journalistBoutros Boutros-Ghali was not one for political correctness. Despite...
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A line in the Sand for International Law
Letter from America – Ian WilliamsWritten By: Ian WilliamsPublished: March 19, 2016 Last modified: March 18, 2016The paths of two much mis-underestimated, highly ethical individuals crossed recently. A...
View ArticleSmoke and the only fire from the foot of the witchfinder's stake
Letter from America – Ian WilliamsWritten By: Ian WilliamsPublished: May 14, 2016 TribuneA decade later, who remembers the alleged United Nations’ Oil For Food Scandal? Once the smoke had blown away,...
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Arabs and UNSC
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2016, pp. 44-45United Nations ReportThere’s More Than One Way to Skin the Security Council CatBy Ian WilliamsTwo months after Israel’s 1982 invasion...
View ArticlePrimary Colour is green - for money
Letter from America – Ian WilliamsTribune: Ian WilliamsPublished: June 10, 2016 Last modified: June 7, 2016Those who advocated primary-style elections in the British Labour Party should learn their...
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Letter From America – Ian WilliamsWritten By: Ian WilliamsPublished: July 11, 2016 Last modified: July 11, 2016In a press briefing at the UN many years ago Douglas Hurd pointed out that British foreign...
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Ian Williams47 mins · New York, NY · Rudyard Kipling never mentioned the possibility that others would follow the Danes to demand ransom.And that is called paying the Dane-geld;But we've proved it...
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Herod to head UNICEF?
Israel Wins Chairmanship of U.N. Legal Committee, Will Seek Security Council SeatBy Ian WilliamsU.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visits an UNRWA school in Gaza, June 28, 2016. (U.N. PHOTO/ESKINDER...
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The UN Runs through them: UK & US elections and the SG hustingsWritten By: Ian WilliamsPublished: August 10, 2016 Last modified: August 9, 2016With the gladiatorial clashes of the Labour leadership...
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