United Nations

Has the World Failed to Learn the Lesson of 1945?

Has the World Failed to Learn the Lesson of 1945?

Nicolas J. S. Davies urges a special session of U.N. General Assembly aimed at taking concrete actions for Palestine for which people all over the world are calling.
15.10.2026

UN and The Hague Confront Impunity for War Crimes

UN and The Hague Confront Impunity for War Crimes

The article examines how UN bodies and international judicial institutions in The Hague—notably the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC)—are actively challenging long-standing impunity for war crimes and genocide in Gaza, confronting intense political pushback, threats, and sanctions from Israel’s Western allies.
13.10.2026

Red Lines & AI Warfare

Red Lines & AI Warfare

It is yet to be seen if Australia’s policy on weaponising AI will enshrine the moral red line of delegating life and death decisions to machines, writes Matilda Byrne.
05.02.2026

Not a Trump Anomaly: The Board of Peace and America’s Crisis-Driven Power Plays

Not a Trump Anomaly: The Board of Peace and America’s Crisis-Driven Power Plays

The history of American power is, in many ways, the history of reinventing rules – or designing new ones – to fit US strategic interests.
03.02.2026

Jeffrey Sachs Briefs UN on US Aggression in Venezuela

Jeffrey Sachs Briefs UN on US Aggression in Venezuela

The author advises the Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities by immediately affirming a series of actions in response to the U.S. attacks on Venezuela.
06.01.2026

End the Wars & Restart the Factories

End the Wars & Restart the Factories

While industrialisation remains a top priority for Global South countries, debt-driven austerity, corporate dominance, wars and sanctions keep many poorer nations locked into dependency and underdevelopment.
26.12.2025

Sanctions Kill

Speakers from four affected countries — Cuba, Nicaragua, Palestine and Venezuela — describe the deadly toll of blockades and sanctions, particularly on children under 5.
10.12.2025

Capitalist Climate Catastrophe

Capitalist Climate Catastrophe

As Global North countries fail to meet their climate finance obligations, the U.N.’s climate meetings have become sites of struggle for countries of the Global South.
08.12.2025

UN Security Council Gives US ‘Mandate’ Over Palestine

UN Security Council Gives US ‘Mandate’ Over Palestine

The council endorsed Donald Trump’s neo-colonial governing board over a territory that he said should be depopulated to make way for his resort fantasy to be built on the bones of the victims of Israel’s genocide, reports Joe Lauria.
18.11.2025

Beware Trump’s Ceasefire Without UN Action

Beware Trump’s Ceasefire Without UN Action

Governments of the world have the collective power to end this genocide and the brutal, illegal occupation of Palestine, writes Nicolas J. S. Davies.
13.10.2025

Power & Justice

Power & Justice

The world broke its silence at the U.N. late last month, but force alone is what counts for Trump and Netanyahu, who propose to stand astride the world like co-emperors.
07.10.2025

Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East

Israel is the main source of instability in the Middle East

The West is finally starting to catch on, as evidenced by Israeli officials' increasing isolation at the UN last week
30.09.2025

Looney Climate Change is Not Science

Looney Climate Change is Not Science

President Trump’s U.N. speech covered a variety of topics, ranging from his peacemaking accomplishments in seven different wars.
27.09.2025

Why has Hegseth summoned military commanders to Washington?

Why has Hegseth summoned military commanders to Washington?

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of US generals and admirals to a meeting early next week at Quantico Marine Corps base, just outside of Washington.
26.09.2025

UK’s Rank Hypocrisy on Terrorism

UK’s Rank Hypocrisy on Terrorism

The admission that the U.K. government has provided aid to a proscribed terrorist group, while arresting citizens for the support of an anti-genocide group similarly proscribed is the height of hypocrisy.
24.09.2025

Escalation in the Baltics: NATO exploits alleged airspace violation by Russian jets for new war escalation

Escalation in the Baltics: NATO exploits alleged airspace violation by Russian jets for new war escalation

Last Friday, the Estonian Defense Ministry reported that three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets had entered Estonian airspace for several minutes.
23.09.2025

Europe uses Iran as pawn in transatlantic power play

Europe uses Iran as pawn in transatlantic power play

The E3's push for formally 'snapback' sanctions on Tehran was not about getting limits on its nuclear program
22.09.2025

Independent Probe for UN Says Israel Commits Genocide

Independent Probe for UN Says Israel Commits Genocide

Israeli authorities and security forces “committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,” says a new U.N. report.
17.09.2025

Can the UN GA End Israel’s Occupation?

Can the UN GA End Israel’s Occupation?

The General Assembly is not powerless in the face of genocide. It can recommend one or more of six concrete measures based on the GA’s own precedents, writes Mona Ali Khalil.
16.09.2025

The United Nations Turns 80

The United Nations Turns 80

The U.N. is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
11.09.2025

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