With an eye on future U.N. Security Council resolutions concerning Gaza, Dan Becker discusses a possible mechanism in the U.N. Charter to force the U.S. to abstain from voting.
Gaza & UN Veto Power
Category: U.S.
US Economic Pundits & Their Wall Street ‘Vibes’
The biggest problem, writes Les Leopold, is how to take the government back from the wealthy who dominate it.
Harvard’s Punitive ‘Palestine Exception’
Members of the university’s medical faculty call out the Harvard Corporation’s disproportionate punishment of 13 seniors for participating in the school’s Gaza solidarity encampment.
NATO’s Pacific War Games
One-third of the countries joining RIMPAC’s maneuvers in the Pacific this summer are not from Asia and the Pacific, says Ann Wright. They are from Europe and are all members of NATO.
How the ICC Is Overcoming Israeli Impunity
Ramzy Baroud on the power paradigm that long defined the West’s relationship with Palestine and, by extension, the Global South.
Vijay Prashad: Brazil’s Floodwaters of Austerity
In Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul, millions are suffering from extreme flooding. Amid the waters, the Landless Workers’ Movement is focused on providing emergency relief.
Patrick Lawrence: Opening US Diplomats’ Eyes
An obituary of Moorhead Kennedy Jr., one of the U.S. hostages in Iran, helps to spotlight what is absent in the Biden regime’s secretary of state and national security adviser.
Mexico’s New President Vows to Uphold Obrador’s Agenda
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president, has promised to continue her predecessor’s course of anti-neoliberal economic development.
Thomas Friedman v. Critical Thought on Gaza
Lawrence Davidson on The New York Times’ columnist’s failure to acknowledge the imbalance of violence over the entire history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The Homeland Security Campus
Repress U., Class of 2024: Michael Gould-Wartofsky provides an overview of the wide-reaching crackdown on U.S. campus protest.