Category: World
The law that could help Congress kill Trump’s Iran deal
When the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Trump administration and the Iranian government leaked last week, lawmakers from both parties…
Our Ocean Conference: After Mombasa – Will Africa and the World Make Ocean Promises Real?
« James Alix Michel warns that without real finance and precaution, ocean pledges risk remaining only on paper. » Now that the lights…
Dwindling Humanitarian Aid Devastates the Rohingyas in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Nearly nine years after the violent persecution of the Rohingya minority population in Myanmar and the following mass exodus of refugees, over 1.2…
Global South Leaders Redesigning International Cooperation
The fallout from the sudden collapse of the old system of financing international cooperation has been disastrous, unleashing a wave of harm and…
In 2025, Government Forces were the Greatest Perpetrators of Violence Against Children in Armed Conflicts
A record number of children were subject to grave violations by parties to armed conflicts, the highest since the UN mandate for children…
A UN Secretary-General who Defied the US – and Suffered a Backlash
When Egypt’s onetime Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali was running for the post of U.N. Secretary-General in late 1991, he had to contend with…
Team Trump squares up to rip Red and Blue critics of Iran peace deal
The Trump administration has spent the last several days blasting away at bipartisan critics in Congress and from the usually friendly rightwing media…
Unpopularity of war puts $1.5 trillion defense budget in crosshairs
The debates in the Senate and House Armed Services Committees this month over this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Pentagon’s annual…
Congress loves to buy failed jets and ships then make your kids pay
As Congress debates the 2027 defense budget, members must confront an essential reality: their children and grandchildren will be left footing the bill….
Hong Kong: No Safety in Exile
When performance artist Sammu Chen tried to tie a red thread to a streetpost, plainclothes police stopped him before he could finish. Chen…
