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: U.N. General Assembly
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.
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?
Imperial Dreams Sink in the Persian Gulf
As U.S. leaders realize the limits of their imperial reach, the American people are realizing their power to insist on making peace, writes Nicolas J.S. Davies.
China & a World Order on the Verge of Collapse
The bilateral guardrails erected in Beijing last week may buy time, but they do not fix global governance institutions drifting toward a rupture that historically has preceded systemic collapse, writes Tatiana Carayannis.
Israel’s Yellow-Line Annexation in Gaza
Israel’s imposition of a ceasefire Yellow Line constitutes territorial theft with better branding, writes Ahmad Ibsais. It puts Trump’s plan for the continued colonization of Gaza into operation.
UK Saw Israel as ‘Chief Problem’ Curbing Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
Mark Curtis reports that Israel’s nuclear arms were seen by British officials as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from the 1990s show.
Other Avenues to Try, to Stop the War on Iran
A “Uniting for Peace” resolution in the U.N. General Assembly can counter the Security Council’s failure to act, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Jeffrey Sachs: Attack on Iran Also an Assault on UN
The U.S. objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the U.N. and the international rule of law — an attempt that will fail.
Trump Made No Case for War on Iran
The case for each U.S. war in the Middle East over the past 35 years has had progressively weaker rationale and international support. The aggression against Iran launched Saturday has almost none of either, writes Joe Lauria.