Sachs & Sybil Fares (*) On May 10, the United Nations’ 193 member states can end the Gaza war and the longstanding suffering of the Palestinian people by voting to admit Palestine as the 194th UN member state.The Arab world has repeatedly declared its readiness to…
By Batseba Seifu * Modern Diplomacy In a region perennially plagued by instability and conflict, the recent exchange between Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and President Getachew Reda of the Tigray Interim Regional Administration has brought to the fore a myriad of intricate…
by Chloe Atkinson* – CounterPunch UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised, as part of a long-simmering controversy, that migrants arriving in the country without permission will be sent to Rwanda rather than be allowed to claim asylum in the UK. According to a BBC report…
In accordance with the editorial document approved by the Assembly of members on April 29th, to publish only articles on the Gaza war and Ukraine signed only by prominent and well-known personalities, we send below an article by Noam Chomsky A Middle East Peace That Could Happen…
Bhadrakumar – Indian Punchline Such a thing never happened in the past one hundred years since the United States stepped out of the Western Hemisphere as an imperial power — an adversary barging into one of its military bases abroad. A military base is deemed sovereign…
By Costas Velis* – The Conversation An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea. At the penultimate round of negotiations, held in Ottawa, Canada, Rwanda and Peru proposed a target to cut the weight of primary plastics…
By Heidi Kingstone* – Politico This year, we should remember Benjamin Berell Ferencz who led the Nuremberg prosecution of two dozen SS commanders, and his legacy: Law, not war. It’s beyond belief that in the present day, genocide — a term coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin…
By Phil Miller* – Declassified UK Britain’s direct involvement in the NATO raid that killed a Montenegrin civilian can be revealed for the first time Twenty five years ago this week, NATO bombed Montenegro’s main airport. It came amid airstrikes on Yugoslav forces in Kosovo…
By Antonio Guterres* UNITED NATIONS, May 3 2024 – The world is going through an unprecedented environmental emergency which poses an existential threat to this and future generations. People need to know about this – and journalists and media workers have a key role in informing…
By Livia Malcangio* The danger of nuclear war is greater than it has ever been. Nine nations hold a total of some 12,000 nuclear warheads, 90% of them in the arsenals of the US and Russia. Escalating tensions between the US and Russia, the US and China, India and Pakistan…
