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Host, Bully, Hypocrite: The US’s Shameful Gatekeeping of the United Nations
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...
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Aug 311 min read


Entire UN Security Council Except US Says Gaza Famine 'Man-Made' as 10 More People Starve to Death
August 28, 2025 Brett Wilkins Every member nation of the United Nations Security Council except the United States on Wednesday affirmed...
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Aug 281 min read


Raising the Cost of U.S. Coercion Against the ICC
August 28, 2025 By Devika Hovell Imagine that, overnight, the President of the United States orders sanctions against sitting Supreme...
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Aug 281 min read
Think tank staffer stumped when asked about arms industry funding
August 25, 2025 Nick Cleveland-Stout In a new Al Jazeera docuseries called the Business of War, the Atlantic Council’s Mark Massa was...
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Aug 251 min read


Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4 Times More Than It Would Take to House City's Entire Homeless Population
August 23, 2025 Stephen Prager Last week, when Trump federalized Washington, DC's police force and deployed the National Guard to occupy...
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Aug 231 min read


Planet-warming gas levels rose more than ever in 2024
August 20, 2025 The data was released in January but the bottom line is while nations of the world agreed in 2015 to reduce CO2, except...
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Aug 221 min read


Famine in Gaza City means ‘deaths will increase exponentially’, UN-backed organisation warns – Israel-Gaza war latest updates
August 22, 2025 Famine has been confirmed in Gaza City for the first time, a UN-backed body responsible for monitoring food security...
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Aug 221 min read


ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL: THE SDGs vs RISING MILITARY EXPENDITURES
August 20, 2025 This paper is submitted in response to the UNODA call for papers on ‘the impact of the global increase in military...
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Aug 201 min read


Gaza: Aid insufficient to avert ‘widespread starvation’ as Israeli military ramp-up forces more people to flee
August 20, 2025 UN News Service The small trickle of aid entering Gaza is totally insufficient to alleviate starvation and displacement...
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Aug 201 min read


NATO’S 3.5% Spending Goal Unsustainable on every count
August 17, 2025 Transnational Institute In 2025, there is one glaring security challenge facing everyone in the world – and that is the...
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Aug 171 min read


60 percent of the world’s land area is in a precarious state
August 17, 2025 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Rainforest in Ecuador: functional biosphere integrity requires the plant...
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Aug 171 min read


Hunger and a heatwave plague the Gaza Strip
August 15, 2025 UN News Service As hunger and malnutrition deepen in the Gaza Strip, humanitarian missions continue to face delays and...
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Aug 151 min read
America the FUBARAn Ailing, Flailing, Failing Empire Lashes Out
August 13, 2025 William Astore As a retired U.S. Air Force officer, I firmly believe in civilian control of our military. This country...
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Aug 131 min read


Elders call for decisive measures by states to halt unfolding genocide and famine in Gaza
August 12, 2025 Mary Robinson and Helen Clark A statement by Mary Robinson and Helen Clark following their visit to Egypt and the Rafah...
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Aug 121 min read
How the military-industrial complex captured US democracy | Business of War
August 11, 2025 Al Jazeera When it comes to selling weapons, the United States is in a league of its own: more than 40 percent of all...
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Aug 111 min read


PI Briefing | No. 29 | Destroyer of Worlds
August 10, 2025 In the Progressive International's twenty-ninth Briefing of 2025, we look at the enduring danger of nuclear weapons,...
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Aug 101 min read


War Crimes Then and Now: Hiroshima to Gaza
August 10, 2025 Peter G. Prontzos This week marks 80 years since the United States used its nuclear weapons against the civilian...
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Aug 101 min read


Extreme heat is breaking records worldwide: UN weather agency
August 8, 2025 UN News Service In this record-breaking July, heatwaves especially impacted Sweden and Finland, which experienced...
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Aug 81 min read


Israeli plan to take complete control of Gaza must stop now, says UN rights chief
August 8, 2025 UN News Service “A complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza Strip must be immediately halted,” insisted Volker...
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Aug 81 min read


The nuclear road not taken
August 6, 2025 Arjun Makhijani It all started in 1939, when Albert Einstein signed a letter , drafted by Leo Szilard, to US President...
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Aug 61 min read
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