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Tag: United Nations Security Council

  • What Might Lenin Have Thought About the US-Israeli War on Iran (and the War in Ukraine)

    Facit indignatio versum (Indignation makes my verses) – Juvenal In his analyses of the causes of the first world war, Lenin stressed the importance of understanding the policies the belligerent states pursued before the war. Borrowing from the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, the Bolshevik leader argued that war is politics by other (namely, […]

  • International Law Needs International Enforcement

    Donald Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East is but the latest indication that the system of international law―which provides guidelines for the behavior of nations in world affairs―is crumbling. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after thousands of years of violent international conflict, efforts to establish global norms for nations in connection […]

  • This Illegal US-Israeli Attack on Iran Is Also an Assault on the United Nations

    Let us be clear about what the United States and Israel are pursuing. The US objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the UN and the international rule of law—an attempt that will fail. On February 16, 2026, one of us (Jeffrey Sachs) […]

  • After Gaza and Venezuela Why No European Criticism of the Illegal War on Iran

    Smilingly supporting gross violations of international law and the UN Charter again and again. It is the US, stupid! Here is all that EU Presidents von der Leyen and Costa had to say on February 28, 2026: The developments in Iran are greatly concerning. We remain in close contact with our partners in the region. […]

  • No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council

    Distinguished Members of the Security Council, The President of the United States is issuing grave threats of force against the Islamic Republic of Iran if it does not accede to US demands. His actions risk a major regional war that would be devastating. Asked if he wanted regime change, he responded that it “seems like that would be the […]

  • The White House Archive: What Vladimir Putin Confided to George W. Bush, What He Means Now

    Revealed for the first time in public is that President Vladimir Putin believes that international terrorism of the radical Islamic type is not the result of Middle Eastern conflict or of regional poverty or of Great Power proxy warfighting. Rather, he thinks it is a form of competition of the Marxist-Leninist type between Islamic and […]

  • The Impending US Colonial Administration over Gaza, Palestine

    The Impending US Colonial Administration over Gaza, Palestine

    Behind the diplomatic language of ‘reconstruction’ and ‘stabilisation’, a new colonial framework for Gaza is being assembled. The following is why the latest Security Council resolution matters and what it sets in motion. On 17 November, the UN Security Council approved a draft resolution authored by the United States endorsing President Donald Trump’s plan for […]

  • NDP Takes Orwellian World View to Deny My Candidacy

    NDP Takes Orwellian World View to Deny My Candidacy

    Up is down. Right is left. International law is whatever empire says it is. Democracy is following our rules. The audacity, chauvinism and absurdity of the NDP vetting committee is a sight to behold. To justify denying party members the right to choose whether they want me to lead the party, the three-person backroom committee […]

  • The UNSC vote to gift Gaza to its enemies

    Why did the United Nations Security Council vote to give authority over Gaza to a genocidal demolition squad called the Board of Peace, headed by Donald Trump? This question has several dimensions. The resolution itself was drafted by the US, and more specifically the Trump administration, in close consultation with the Netanyahu government in Israel. […]

  • “Historic Betrayal”: UNSC Approves US Plan to Control Gaza as Russia, China Abstain

    The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2803 this week, after permanent members Russia and China chose to abstain instead of using their veto power. In addition to giving a framework for Gaza that would put Israel and the U.S. in control, the language of the motion is extremely vague, and it gives no guarantee […]

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