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Jul 24, 2024 |
countercurrents.org | Ivana Nikolić Hughes |Lawrence Wittner |Arun Mitra |Chris Wright
Taking nuclear disarmament seriously is not only an existential imperative at this very moment, but an obligation of all state parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The following speech was delivered to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee on July 23, 2024 at the United Nations in Geneva.
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Jul 17, 2024 |
countercurrents.org | Arun Mitra |Farooque Chowdhury |Johannes Stern |Chris Wright
The missile attack on Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv, Ukraine on 8th July 2024 by the Russian forces is very disturbing. Since the start of the conflict in Gaza 31 out of 36 hospitals have been damaged or destroyed and over 500 healthcare workers killed according to the UN Human Rights Office. Article 18 of the Geneva Convention stipulates that a building designated as a civilian hospital cannot be the target of attack.
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Jul 12, 2024 |
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Medea Benjamin |Phil Pasquini |Chris Wright
UN staff continue to play an important and at times life-saving role among many people facing humanitarian crisis. However the role of the UN in maintaining world peace has suffered and has been increasingly marginalized as big powers tend more frequently to take the matters into their own hands.
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Jul 12, 2024 |
original.antiwar.com | Chris Wright
Reprinted from Common Dreams. The world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Back then, however, the fear of total destruction consumed the public; today, few people seem even to be aware of this possibility.
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Jul 11, 2024 |
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Phil Pasquini |Chris Wright |Andre Damon
In the middle of several serious risks and conflicts the safety of our world has been somehow ensured on the basis of certain basic understandings that till recently were well appreciated by almost all of the top leaders and diplomats of the international community. One of the most basic of these understandings is that there should be no direct confrontation between the USA/NATO and Russia.
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