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The UN statement in question is just that: a statement, with no tangible value and no legal repercussions.

Is Fox News finished? ...and more burning questions from media land

The first UN General Assembly's first resolution set up a commission to bring back proposals to eliminate atomic weapons and all other weapons of mass destruction and to control atomic energy. That was seventy-seven years ago.

Myanmar’s military junta is not short of partners. Indeed, business, notably in the arms market, continues unabated. Such conduct makes a mockery of the sanctio ns and injunctions imposed by the EU, United States and other states since the 2021 coup.

While nuclear weapons governments and their bomb-making industries are criminally sleepwalking into what could mean the end of our planet’s life, many others – scientists, high-level military, citizens and whole countries – are countering the weapons holders’ political idiocy with principled intelligence.

U.S. officials are trying to preserve a truce that has reduced violence and created the possibility for a negotiated settlement to the war.

Workers vs neoliberalism — it's happening everywhere

To ensure that finance aligns with the climate crisis, we need a far-reaching mobilization plan akin to the Marshall Plan following World War II, which helped restore economies devastated by the conflict.

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Fortunately, there is another way―one that major thinkers and even, at times, national governments have promoted. And that is strengthened global governance.