Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey took to--what else?!--a new video release Monday to defend the advocacy group's mega-viral "Kony 2012" film from some of the criticism it received. The slickly produced 30-minute documentary on guerrilla leader Joseph Kony chronicles the atrocities of his Lord's Resistance Army in Central Africa over the past two decades and drew over 70 million viewers. But, it also sparked criticism about everything from the group's finances to whether it inspired low-effort "slactivism" or (arm-chair activism) among the group's mostly college-age millennial fan-base, to whether Invisible Children promotes a modern-day version of colonial thinking about the need for white foreigners to solve Africa's problems.

In the latest video offering, Invisible Children CEO Keesey addresses each of the major concerns, while the video itself avoids--for better or for worse--any of the qualities that made "Kony 2012" such a social networking phenomenon in the first place. Slick it is not. Straightforward, and even a little tedious, it is.

"So my responsibility is to translate all the resources given to us to allocate them to give the maximum impact they can," Keesey says in a segment on the new video referring to the group's finances. "Since the beginning, we put our audited finances and annual report straight on the website."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the UN March 12, 2012. (Getty, via BBC)Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to New York Monday as the United States, Europe and Arab states sought to break a stalemate at the UN Security Council on Syria.

Clinton was due to meet separately with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN Security Council discussion regarding the Arab spring. Russia, along with China, has so far blocked previous UN Security Council efforts to pass a resolution condemning the Bashar al-Assad regime for a year long crackdown that has killed over 7,500 people.

But there were few clear signs Monday that the major powers' geopolitical disagreements over Syria would be put aside to make way for the passage of a new UN Syria resolution on the crisis. And western diplomats were hesitant to act more aggressively to stem the violence without one.

"I think that while we are all frustrated, that this is not Libya," British ambassador to the United States Peter Westmacott told journalists at a press briefing in Washington Monday. "Syria's military defenses are strong, its army is highly trained."

Libya-style military intervention in Syria "would be difficult," Westmacott said, adding, "I do not think it is an option as long as the Security Council does not ask them to act."

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed shock and sadness Monday at the "terrible, awful" massacre of 16 Afghans by a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan Sunday, but she denied the incident would weaken U.S. resolve to the mission in Afghanistan.

"This is terrible, awful—I can't even imagine the impact on the families who were subject to this attack and the loss of children in this terrible incident," Clinton said Monday from New York.

"This is not who we are, and the United States is committed to seeing those responsible held accountable," she told journalists, who were on the sidelines of her meeting at the United Nations. Clinton is in New York today to meet with her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, to discuss Syria and to attend a meeting of the so-called Middle East Quartet (of which she and Lavrov are both members.)

"Now, we've had a difficult and complex few weeks in Afghanistan," she continued. "This terrible incident does not change our steadfast dedication to protecting the Afghan people and to doing everything we can to help build a strong and stable Afghanistan. ... But, we recognize that an incident like this is inexplicable and will certainly cause many questions to be asked."