December 7, 2025 Adam Gabbatt Being a member of the Pentagon press corps was once one of the more prestigious assignments in US journalism, a position reserved for heavy hitters from venerable newspapers and news channels, reporters at the peak of their powers. Members of the Pentagon press corp carry their belongings out of the Pentagon after turning in their press credentials on 15 October 2025 in Washington. Photograph: Kevin Wolf/AP

December 6, 2025 Seham Tantesh  in Gaza, Julian Borger  and Emma Graham-Harrison  in Jerusalem When Jumaa and Fadi Abu Assi went to look for firewood their parents thought they would be safe. They were just young boys, aged nine and 10 and, after all, a ceasefire had been declared in Gaza . Their mother, Hala Abu Assi, was making tea in the family’s tent in Khan Younis when she heard an explosion, a missile fired by an Israeli drone. She ran to the scene – but it was too late

December 3, 2025 William Astore It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain , America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new chief of staff of the Air Force. Along with the usual warrior talk, the CSAF vowed to “relentlessly advocate” for the new Sentinel ICBM , or

November 16, 2025 William Hartung and Ashley Gate Tomgram William D. Hartung and Ashley Gate, A New Gold(en) Mine for Arms Contractors Posted on November 16, 2025 Donald Trump remains a mystery man of some eerie sort. After all, just ask yourself, why in the world did he only recently announce that this country was going to “immediately” resume nuclear testing, not having tested a nuclear weapon — despite its vast arsenal — since 1992? “Because of other countries testing pro

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 7, 2025 UN News Service From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it has also devastated natural resources such as water systems, farmland and forests.         The impacts affect livelihoods, and fuel displacement as well as ongoing instability.  Moreover, they can linger even after the fighting has ended. © IOM/Raber Aziz Members of a family displaced by drought and conflict rest outside their tent.

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 Carlos Mureithi   Reports of ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities are emerging from El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city  in Sudan’s western Darfur region over the weekend.

October 27, 2025 Ariel Gold After two years of relentless bombardment, what Israel’s military has left behind in Gaza will continue to claim lives and maim the innocent. A Palestinian boy walks past the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City on October 22, 2025. (Photo by Omar Al-Qatta / AFP via Getty Images)

October 131, 2025 Philippa Nuttall It is estimated that processing the more than 42mn tonnes of building debris in Gaza will take decades © AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi

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 Jessica Corbett As global outrage  over Israel's attack targeting Hamas ceasefire negotiators in Qatar began to mount...

September 6, 2025 Fiona Harvey, The Guardian Spending more on defence will be pointless unless western governments also tackle the...

September 1, 2025 Ellen Brown The US federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months...

August 25, 2025 Nick Cleveland-Stout In a new Al Jazeera docuseries called the Business of War, the Atlantic Council’s Mark Massa was...

August 23, 2025 Stephen Prager Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy...

August 20, 2025 This paper is submitted in response to the UNODA call for papers on ‘the impact of the global increase in military...