To comply with the World Court ruling, the U.S. would have to end its military assistance to Israel and stop providing political and diplomatic cover to enable Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, writes Marjorie Cohn.
An extensive and historically unprecedented set of international institutions offer invaluable tools for pursuing what Immanuel Kant called a “federation of free states,” writes Jeffrey Sachs.
A report by the U.N.’s Crisis Coordination Center, leaked to Drop Site, shed additional light on what’s been the deadliest-ever war for United Nations staff.
The agreement reached on Tuesday in Beijing, which includes Hamas and Fatah, encompasses all Palestinian forces and factions under the umbrella of the PLO, Pablo Meriguet reports.
The vote at the International Court of Justice against Israel’s occupation was 11-4. The court also voted to call on Israel to evacuate all settlers from the West Bank.
Condemning U.S. exceptionalism, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov laid out to the Security Council how the world can overcome U.S.-led aggression to find peaceful co-existence in a multilateral world.
The U.N. development forum ending on Thursday brings to mind the aspiration that Colombia’s President Petro expressed last year for humanity to “live far from the apocalypse and times of extinction.”
The Congolese people do not control their wealth. There is an urgent desire for a project that would bring people together around the shared interests of the majority.
Twelve former members of the Biden administration are calling its policy in Gaza a failure and a threat to U.S. national security.
The establishment press acted in concert to assassinate the character of the WikiLeaks founder, making it respectable to hate him, writes Jonatahn Cook.
