(2025-06-25). Syria: the post-release emergency programme. icrc.org Windows to Survival and Hope…
(2025-06-25). Some elements to understand the conflict in West Asia. workers.org A Venezuelan international relations expert, Rodríguez Gelfenstein was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country's ambassador to Nicaragua and an advisor for international politics for TeleSUR. He sent us this article June 18, a few days before the U.S. bombed . . . |
(2025-06-25). GAIA Asia Pacific and GAIA Africa Convene Global South Leaders Ahead of INC-5.2. pressenza.com Delegates from Djibouti, Bangladesh, Ecuador, and Fiji came together to highlight the disproportionate burden of plastic pollution on developing countries — including those with economies in transition, small island developing states (SIDS), and downstream countries affected by pollution — and to emphasize the urgent need for robust financing to tackle the plastic crisis. | Ms. Hibaa-Haibado Ismael, INC focal point for Djibouti, highlighted opportunities to strengthen the chair's text by retaining the proposal for a new dedicated multilateral fund and remediation fund, prioritizing financing for devel…
(2025-06-25). EU delays Israel sanctions decision, warns Gaza humanitarian crisis must improve. haaretz.com Foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says EU not seeking to punish Israel, but to 'trigger concrete improvements' in Gaza. Trade with West Bank settlements and sanctions on far-right ministers are on the table…
(2025-06-25). From hegemon to blackmailer. indybay.org Globalized capitalism and free trade are by no means a wonderfully functioning economic system that increases prosperity for all, but rather an irrational and crisis-prone order that primarily produces losers. Trump's policies are a symptom, not a cause, of the crisis of globalized capitalism.
(2025-06-25). Australian universities in crisis: Oppose Labor's cuts to international students and jobs. wsws.org Because of the Labor government's agenda, universities have announced more than 3,000 job cuts and worse is to come.
(2025-06-25). Something is very, very wrong at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA 98433. indybay.org Sexual abuse, child pornography, on-post child luring, right-wing Nazi groups on-post, JBLM police violence and corruption, and soldiers in mental health crisis denied access to medical care and crisis counseling until they have a complete mental breakdown and murder their own children.
(2025-06-25). Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends. presstv.ir As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting over new energy crisis in EU.
(2025-06-25). The Reckless Folly of Modern Conflict: Lessons from the Iran-Israel Crisis. pressenza.com The wisdom of an old Punjabi proverb—"While busily searching elsewhere for the thief, I looked back and found the donkey tied under the banyan tree"—rings painfully true in today's world. It perfectly captures the absurdity of the recent Iran-Israel conflict, where leaders rushed headlong into violence, only to scramble for ceasefires when the flames they ignited grew too hot. Like the proverb's foolish searcher, these modern statesmen fail to see what should be obvious: war solves nothing while destroying everything. Their shortsightedness has become a form of tyranny, where nations fed on propaganda…
(2025-06-25). In Gaza, "illusion of humanitarianism" is new phase in genocide. aljazeera.com Dr James Smith says Gaza's aid crisis is dire, with people killed daily at militarised distribution sites.