On TPP, Inner City Pro Asks UN’s Hong, He Calls It & T-TIP “Discriminatory, Step Backward”

  By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, May 19 -- Just as US Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech in Washington State promoting the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, Inner City Pro in New York asked UN official Pingfan Hong for the UN's view of the TPP.   Pingfan Hong said that TPP would ...

On Yemen IDP Camp Attacked, US Tells ICP Parties Should Minimize Harm; IMF Postpones Review of Program

By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, March 30, updated with video -- Amid continued airstrikes in Yemen, on March 30 came reports of an airstrike on an internally displaced persons camp in Haradh. Inner City Press immediately sought confirmation (and comment) from the UN, and then from the US State Department.  From the State Department ...