November 10, 2025 Benjamin Neimark , Queen Mary University of London  and Kate Mackintosh , University of California, Los Angeles  People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. Eventually, their lives will be restored and their homes will be built back. But the climate consequences of the war will remain for years to come. https://www.juancole.com/2025/11/ravage-environment-respo

November 10, 2025 Olivier de Frouville  and Julian Fernandez Published on November 7, 2025 Over the course of the war in Gaza, the press often portrayed international lawyers as “divided” when it came to what was going on inside the Palestinian territory. In response to this misleading depiction, a group of academics specializing in international law and international criminal law decided to organize a letter this summer that would outline the legal analysis upon which the i

November 9, 2025 Nikita Mazurov , Jonah Valdez                YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

November 8, 2025 Isabelle Jones The United States joined with the likes of Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Israel in voting against the resolution on autonomous weapons.

November 6, 2025 Rachael Mellor Dr. Norbert Stute Building on the legacy of the first summit held in Copenhagen in 1995, the primary goal of the second World Summit for Social Development is to advance global social development and bolster much-needed momentum for the Sustainable Development Goals  set out in the 2030 Agenda. This high-stakes event will be held November 4-6, 2025 in Doha, Qatar , and Better World Info  has carried out thorough research on the event. With just

November 5, 2025 OHCHR GENEVA  – Repeated and systematic lethal attacks by the United States military on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific raise grave concerns about the commission of potential international crimes, UN experts* warned today. “These attacks appear to be unlawful killings carried out by order of a Government, without judicial or legal process allowing due process of law,” the experts said.

November 5, 2025 Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics, yet the real objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage is the suffering of the Venezuelan people. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The USS Sampson (DDG 102), a US Navy missile destroyer, docks at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City, Panama, on September 2, 2025. (Photo by Daniel Gonzalez/Anadolu via

November 4, 2025 Brian Finucane On Monday, the Trump administration’s use of military force against alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean and Pacific will run afoul of the War Powers Resolution’s 60-day clock, which requires termination of such operations if the president has been unable to obtain affirmative congressional authorization. The administration, however, has reportedly come up with a legal argument for why the War Powers Resolution does not apply. As I explain

October 31, 2025 UN News Service Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council , the UN’s top relief official Tom Fletcher said “women and girls are being raped, people being mutilated and killed – with utter impunity,” adding: “ We cannot hear the screams, but – as we sit here today – the horror is continuing. ” © Avaaz/Giles Clarke Tens of thousands of civilians – including many women and children – have been killed in Sudan since conflict erupted in April 2023. (file photo)

October 28, 2025 Brett Wilkins The Gaza Tribunal’s final statement calls for legal accountability, suspension of Israel from global groups, and activation of a veto-proof UN mechanism for international intervention to stop the genocide. The Gaza Tribunal Jury of Conscience delivers its final statement on October 26, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Photo by Gaza Tribunal)

September 29, 2025 UN News Service The past three months have seen an increase in Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank...

September 24, 2025 International Middle East Media Center On Monday, September 22nd, the 717 th  day of Israel’s ongoing campaign of...

September 12, 2025 Joseph Gedeon  in Washington Two Democratic senators claim they have reached the “inescapable conclusion” that Israel ...

September 10, 2025 Jon Duffy The United States has crossed a dangerous line. Last week, an American military platform destroyed a small...

September 9, 2025 Kathy Kelly n his last minutes of freedom before Israel Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, clad in a...

September 3, 2025 Kirsten Stade While recent heat waves were causing thousands of deaths , the Trump administration was busy dismantling...

September 3. 2025 By Catherine Goldberg  and Milan Vivanco No one was surprised when the United States withdrew  from the Paris Agreement...

August 31, 2025 UN News Service In the occupied West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum, *Yousef stands behind a sealed iron gate, cut off from...

August 31, 2025 Rajan Solomon Middle East Monitor The United States is once again demonstrating that it is unfit to serve as host of the...

August 28, 2025 Brett Wilkins Every member nation of the United Nations Security Council except the United States on Wednesday affirmed...