Category: World
UN Peacebuilding Week: Military Expenditure Soars as Funding for Civilian Protection and Prevention Collapses
From June 22 to 26, the United Nations (UN) commemorated its first annual Peacebuilding Week, marking the 20th anniversary of the UN Peacebuilding…
Agency Cannot Be Decreed
India’s new education policy asks a great deal of its teachers. The National Education Policy of 2020 and its NISHTHA (National Initiative for…
Tunisia: Civil Society Criminalised
In May, Tunisian lawyer and journalist Sonia Dahmani was handed her second conviction of the year. Her latest sentence, a two-year jail term,…
US Slams Israel for Undermining Peace Negotiations with Iran –but Rift is Dismissed as a Passing Show
The on-again, off-again US-Iran peace negotiations, which have been disparaged by Israeli leaders, have resulted in a rare rift between the US and…
Does the Pentagon even know who its boat strikes are killing?
The numbers are stomach-turning. In less than 10 months, U.S. forces acting on orders from the Trump administration have killed 215 people in…
We became the late 18th Century British. What now?
This article is part of an RS series reflecting on the 250th anniversary of American Independence and its impact and meaning for modern…
Washington is subsidizing Israel’s booming global arms trade
Even as frustrations mount over Israeli military campaigns across the Middle East, governments keep buying weapons from Israel — making it one of…
The UN Climate Talks in Bonn Just Failed. Why?
With progress stalled on many issues, this year’s June talks in Bonn—which are supposed to smooth the way towards COP 31 in Antalya…
Smart Farming Is Not the Future. It Is Already Here
Farmers today are producing food under pressures that would have been unimaginable to previous generations. Input costs are rising and supply chains are…
Half of new Pentagon advisory board works for military industry
On Monday, the Department of Defense announced a new slate of appointees to the Defense Policy Board, a committee tasked with providing strategic…
