Speakers from four affected countries — Cuba, Nicaragua, Palestine and Venezuela — describe the deadly toll of blockades and sanctions, particularly on children under 5.
Sanctions Kill
Category: United Nations
How a New UN Secretary-General is Chosen
A look at the complicated process that has evolved to choose the next U.N. secretary general who will assume office in 2027. Ben Donaldson reports.
Israel’s Continued Defiance of World Court & UN
Mona Ali Khalil says the U.N. chief has a duty to take further measures to restrain Israel as it escalates and expands its violations of international humanitarian and rights law.
Vijay Prashad: 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.
Europa Ante Novum Bellum (Europe Before the New War)
Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Europe into this nearly hopeless situation, says Uros Lipuscek.
WATCH: Unspeakable Facts on JFK
James Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable, recounts how Patrice Lumumba was assassinated just three days before J.F.K. took office, and where Fidel Castro was when he learned of the murder in Dallas.
RAY McGOVERN: The Neocon-Realist War Over Ukraine
Trump holds the cards to end this war but he has to find the fortitude to stand up to the Europeans and the neocons he appointed.
Bill Gates & the Hot Tub of Death
Hedges Report: On Israel Exporting Occupation Technology
Antony Loewenstein discusses the ease with which Israel has used Gaza to experiment with tools of war and surveillance as a means of control as well as profit thanks to their grave human rights abuses.
Craig Murray: How Britain Can Lose Its UN Veto
The U.S. abuse of its veto power at the U.N. to continue the Gaza genocide has intensified interest in cracking open the structure of the Security Council. Here’s the tool.