Playback: Austin Record Convention's United Nations

Forget Record Store Day, the Austin Record Convention remains the biggest vinyl swap in the USA

"..."It was like the United Nations at times," remarked Doug Hanners about overseas customers..."

June 17, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Muckraking documentarian Alex Gibney here directs his camera toward the influence-peddling scandals that erupted around Jack Abramoff.

May 21, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of Sudan

This multiaward-winner from Sundance 2006 follows three “lost boys” of the Sudan, chronicling three years of their journey in the United States, while revealing as much about American life as African life.

"...of starvation and 10 more years spent in a United Nations camp in Kakuma, Kenya, they’ve come to the..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Dictator

Sacha Baron Cohen opts for scripted comedy this time and lands many good jokes and new offenses, but the target is soft and unmissable.

"...to overthrow Aladeen by having him summoned to the United Nations and, while there, assassinating the tyrant and substituting..."

May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Interpreter

Although The Interpreter is intelligent, intriguing, and topical, it's hampered by its own good intentions, too many plot convolutions, and character ambiguities that try to pass for suspense.

"...as the first commercial movie to shoot inside the United Nations, which means that this thriller is blessed with..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Left Behind

"...kind of garbled tale of the Antichrist, world domination, United Nations stooges, and the global food supply. There's also..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blue Planet

"...D'Argento (Italy's equivalent to the Academy Awards) and the United Nations Award for Film and Television, this 1981 film..."

April 30, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

The Panama Deception

"...peers into the shadowy political mire of what the United Nations condemned as a “flagrant violation of international law”..."

Oct. 9, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Margaret Moser Tribute: Charlie Sexton

The United Nations of Margaret

"...Margaret retired. She was always kind of like the United Nations. It didn’t matter what style of music, if..."

June 30, 2017 Music Feature by William Harries Graham

Obama Going to COP15

The pres finally commits to UN Climate Talks

"...President Obama announced today he'll appear at the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen Dec. 9; he receives..."

Nov. 25, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 4

With the consent of the governed, the United States government has gone rogue and violated international law

"...To demonstrate that the United States has gone rogue, we'll detour from examining our..."

June 14, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

John Bolton for Paxton

Speaker hopeful gets the mustache vote from ex-UN ambassador

"...suspected war criminal and former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton in his corner...."

Jan. 3, 2011 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Learning from Copenhagen

Upcoming blogs on climate action in Denmark

"...of COP15; Copenhagen is the host city for the United Nations conference on global warming, and a showplace of..."

Sept. 29, 2009 News Post by Katherine Gregor

Council: Let's Hear It for Humanity

Anti-refugee resolution dies in committee

"...a romantic sojourn, but to take part in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change...."

Dec. 2, 2015 News Post by Michael King

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"...of the place where I was raised, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America...."

April 4, 2003 Column

Border Violations

What happened to the thousands of unaccompanied children who crossed the U.S. border last year?

"...happening next door; we have to rely on the United Nations to explain what's going on in our neighboring..."

April 3, 2015 News Feature by Dina Samir Shehata

Letters at 3AM

America has engaged in a long-term strategy, through three presidential administrations, to take over the Iraqi people whom we've made helpless from a ruthless form of bio-warfare.

"...In the Gulf War, the United States used munitions treated with "depleted uranium." Radioactive bullets..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column by Michael Ventura

H.C.R. No. 75

"...preferred to downplay continuing threats to this and other nations and to the freedom and safety of the world's..."

April 11, 2003 News Column

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"...Clint Black, AM radio, and the Hummer as grotesque abominations...."

Jan. 7, 2005 Column

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"...downward spiral? Will we work together with the other nations of the world to build a global community for..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column

Fatal Error

Hooked on Drug Money

"...Redford resident Enrique Madrid, an anthropologist, says the United States has a “schizoid mentality” about the border. photograph..."

Dec. 25, 1998 News Feature by Monte Paulsen

Greg Abbott Versus the Black Helicopters

After decade of cooperation, AG threatens election experts

"...experts and 44 long term observers from 23 OSCE nations, representing the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights,..."

Oct. 25, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Blasts UN

"...not enough, that we were being cheap. However, the United Nations is in no position to denigrate anyone’s contribution,..."

Jan. 3, 2005 Postmarks

Austin City Council Iraq Resolution

"...security, as well as the freedom and security of nations around the world, when a clear danger is demonstrated;..."

Feb. 14, 2003 News Feature

Blix In Austin:

The UN weapons inspector blasts Bush at the LBJ School

"...April 28 to hear Sweden's Hans Blix, formerly the United Nations' chief weapons inspector in Iraq. Blix's mild personality..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

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"...baseball ... or perhaps to Louis Black, for more explanations of how change is inevitable, the same mealy-mouthed excuse..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column

Hightower Report: Lubbock County Judge Goes Nuts

Tom Head gives Todd Akin a run for his money

"...candidate for U.S. Senate, who's deeply concerned that the United Nations is plotting to take over America's golf courses...."

Sept. 7, 2012 News Column

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

A coup d'etat in Venezuela is captured by a video camera, and the filmmakers use the footage to question the honesty of the news media.

"...producer of petroleum in the world, and one the United States has long relied on for imports, and there’s..."

Jan. 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bill of the Week

Rep. Molly White wants to protect Texas from the UN's sustainability agenda

"...Agenda 21? It's a pretty innocuous, if overly wordy, United Nations document from 1992, laying out broad, voluntary guidelines..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Column by Richard Whittaker

Helpful Resources: COP15 and Beyond

"..."Conference of the Parties" under the UNFCCC, aka the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. With a bit..."

Dec. 11, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

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