Tag: Peacekeeping

  • Schemes of Bankruptcy: The United Nations, Funding Dues, and Human Rights

    The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled. In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s alleged impotence. “What is the purpose of the United Nations?” he posed to gathered world leaders. All it seemed to do was “write a really strongly worded letter and then […]

  • Denmark’s Ritual of Militarisation

    On December 8, 2025, the Copenhagen Security Summit convenes at Falkoner Centret in Frederiksberg. With 35 speakers and more than 1,200 participants, it is one of Denmark’s largest gatherings on geopolitics and security. Organised by Danish Industry (DI), Ernst and Young, Poul Schmith (The Chamber Attorney), Danske Bank, and Børsen, the summit features high‑profile figures […]

  • The UN’s Financing Crisis: Who Pays, Who Doesn’t, and Why China’s Delays Matter

    The United Nations is facing one of the gravest financial crises in its history. According to the UN Secretariat, by late 2025, only 145 of its 193 member states had paid their assessed contributions in full. That leaves 48 countries behind on their obligations, with total arrears amounting to $1.87 billion. The consequences are severe: […]

  • Trump’s Gaza “Peace” Plan: A Cruel Joke in a Conflict and Peace Illiterate World

    “The Throne of Peace is Now Empty and the UN Cancelled” • AI-generated image by Jan Oberg The UN Security Council adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution on November 17, 2025, endorsing Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. It authorised an International Stabilisation Force (ISF), backed a transitional governing body called the “Board of Peace”, and declared that […]

  • Europe’s Staged Panic over False Flag Non-Russian Drones?

    Officially, the drones were not identified. By simply thinking critically – which journalists and selected experts no longer do – there may be a good reason for that. And this article will never be mentioned in Denmark… Drones over Denmark. No damage. No trace. No answers. Yet the headlines scream “Russian threat,” and Prime Minister […]

  • Trump’s Assault Upon the United Nations is at Odds with U.S. Public Opinion

    If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into American politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations. The United Nation is based on international cooperation, as well as on what the UN Charter calls “the equal rights … of nations large and […]

  • Water on Mars, Blood on Earth

    Mars Missions vs Earth’s Thirst: NASA’s Perseverance rover cost $2.7 billion. The global space economy exceeds $500 billion annually. Meanwhile, the UN estimates $11 billion per year could provide clean water and sanitation for everyone on Earth. In Somalia, over 8 million people face water scarcity, while Cape Town nearly ran dry in 2018 due […]

  • When Will the General Assembly Suspend Israel?

    When Will the General Assembly Suspend Israel?

    The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job curses his own existence as well as the god that created him. Numerous interpretations of the story exist, and more than one version has […]

  • Israel’s War on the World

    Israel’s War on the World

    Photo credit: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, Wikimedia Commons Each new week brings new calamities for people in the countries neighboring Israel, as its leaders try to bomb their way to the promised land of an ever-expanding Greater Israel. In Gaza, Israel appears to be launching its “Generals’ Plan” to drive the most devastated and traumatized 2.2 […]

  • Denouncing the Renewal of the U.S.-Kenya Mission to Haiti

    The Haiti/Americas Team of the Black Alliance for Peace strongly denounces the UN Security Council’s vote to extend the U.S. funded, Kenya-led Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti. We assert that any U.S./UN-led armed intervention in Haiti is not only unjustifiable but also unlawful. We stand with the Haitian people and civil society groups […]

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