Research institutes from around the world have come together to start an international discussion responding to the broad crises of our times, writes Vijay Prashad.
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Category: United Nations
UN Official Also on the Board of Shell
If Jane Holl Lute’s many endeavors outside the U.N. passed the institution’s ethics test, her latest gig became more complicated, Stéphanie Fillion reports.
Throwing a Shoe at the Illegal US War on Iraq
Vijay Prashad explains why a group of international media organizations reject and denounce the U.S. government’s attack on Julian Assange and journalism.
US & Ukraine at UN Refuse to Condemn Nazism
The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that, writes Craig Murray.
Vijay Prashad: Pandemic Worsens the Old Divides
Vijay Prashad hails socialist educational programs that have stuck to their core principles and defied overall trends during the pandemic.
In First Post After Prison, Craig Murray Rips COP26
Glasgow 21 was rather more sinister than blah blah blah, writes the former U.K. diplomat, after first thanking his supporters.
COP26: Glasgow & the Military Industrial Mindset
Paul Rogers says the military-industrial mindset of state-on-state conflict is utterly obsolete in the face of the global threat of climate breakdown.
COP-26: UN SG Blasts Climate Agreement
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres bluntly criticized the final, non-binding communique of the Glasgow climate summit, saying, “We are still knocking on the door of climate catastrophe.”
COP26: Biden Under Fire for ‘Failing to Act on Fossil Fuels’
“We’re in a five-alarm fire, but Biden refuses to use a firehose,” said one critic of the U.S. performance at the Glasgow climate conference, which ended on Saturday.
COP26: Climate Summit Ends Dangerously Short of Goal
The COP26 climate conference in Glasgow is over with a ‘hollowed-out,’ non-binding final communique being denounced as leaving the 1.5°C goal ‘on life support’.