Member states voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to proceed with a long session of General Assembly speeches mostly condemning Washington’s 70-plus-year-old embargo on Cuba, Damilola Banjo reports.
Washington Fails to Block Cuba-Embargo Debate at UN
Category: United Nations
Monsters Playing Victims
Ramzy Baroud on Danny Danon and the mountain of evidence that cannot be shouted away about Israel’s systemic use of sexual violence and other abuses against Palestinians.
Vijay Prashad: When Children Are the Target
The implications of U.N. inquiry into the Israeli military’s deliberate targeting of children reach far beyond Gaza. They raise fundamental questions about the future of international law itself.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘Confronting Genocide’
Jewish flotilla activist Anny Mokotow, who was roughed up by her Israeli captors, and two journalists who’ve reported the story, Andrew Brown and Michael West, talk to CN‘s Cathy Vogan.
UN: 30% of Gazans Israel Killed Were Children
The U.N. inquiry finds that Israeli forces’ widespread shooting and killing of children and destruction of neonatal and maternity-care facilities is key to establishing genocidal intent, Stephen Prager reports.
WATCH: The World This Week — Terms of US Surrender
After losing the war, a major U.S.-Israel row is coming to a head with the fate of Mideast peace and the global economy on the line. With Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Saturday 8 pm EDT.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘A Deal With Iran’
Can peace work in the Gulf? Can the U.S. be trusted? Will Israel sabotage it? Ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke on CN Live! Watch the replay.
Israel’s Designs on Gaza
Netanyahu has been explicit about having no intention of following any peace road map, planning instead for the permanent incremental takeover of Gaza, writes Ramzy Baroud.
JOE LAURIA: Mutual Aid or Mutual Assured Destruction
WATCH: Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance?
The Russian-Chinese Communiqué
After their summit in Beijing on Wednesday, the Russian and Chinese presidents issued the following communiqué, declaring the failure of neocolonial hegemony and the emergence of a new era of international relations.