Thomas G. Weiss

Sep 28, 2023 | passblue.com | Thomas G. Weiss |Banjo Damilola |Fergal Mythen |Anastasiia Carrier |Eloisa Romani |Zahraa Kapasi | +5 more

Sep 26, 2023 | brnw.ch | Thomas G. Weiss |Dulcie Leimbach |Anastasiia Carrier |Dawn Clancy

Parachuting into the frenzy of Manhattan’s East Side last week exposed the usual traffic snarls and not-so diplomatic cacophony about the United Nations. The noise included hackneyed pleas to alter the Security Council, often mixed with calls to draft a new Charter. Yet with current toxic politics, reform is a nonstarter.

Sep 26, 2023 | passblue.com | Thomas G. Weiss |Alan Doss |Maria Luisa Gambale |Dawn Clancy |Banjo Damilola

Parachuting into the frenzy of Manhattan's East Side last week exposed the usual traffic snarls and not-so diplomatic cacophony about the United Nations. The noise included hackneyed pleas to alter the Security Council, often mixed with calls to draft a new Charter. Yet with current toxic politics, reform is a nonstarter.

Sep 19, 2023 | us4.campaign-archive.com | Thomas G. Weiss

Parachuting into the frenzy of Manhattan’s East Side last week exposed the usual traffic snarls and not-so diplomatic cacophony about the United Nations. The noise included hackneyed pleas to alter the Security Council, often mixed with calls to draft a new Charter. Yet with current toxic politics, reform is a nonstarter.

May 22, 2023 | katoikos.world | Thomas G. Weiss

The nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich Heine’s words inspired Raphael Lemkin, the drafter of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: “Burning books is not the same as burning bodies…but when one intervenes … against mass destruction of churches and books one arrives just in time to prevent the burning of bodies.”[1] Lemkin’s immediate reference was the November 1938 Kristallnacht crimes, the coordinated program and cultural destruction in the Third...