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.
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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.
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The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States. But the future of a free Puerto Rico doesn’t need to be utopian, or easy, to be just.
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