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Congo’s UN Report: The Report Everyone Already Knew—and Why Rwanda Gets Away with It

The latest UN report on eastern DRC is being described as explosive. That is the preferred diplomatic adjective whenever institutions finally acknowledge a crisis that has been detonating in public for years.

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“A Man of Peace–Tribute to Tony Marsella”

Anthony (Tony) Marsella was a distinguished peace psychologist and transformative academic leader. His groundbreaking work challenged long-standing Western psychological paradigms, emphasizing the critical importance of cultural context in understanding human behavior.

PAPER OF THE WEEK

Deliberative Technologies in Youth, Peace & Security

17 Jun 2026 - Promise, Practice, and the Uptake Gap - When peacebuilders and Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) coalition leaders put AI-enabled deliberative tools into practice, what do they enable, what obstacles do they face, and how can we take forward their lessons learned?

TMS PEACE JOURNALISM

Crime Scene Planet Earth: Why Peacebuilding Requires Doughnut Criminology

14 Jul 2026 - Peace journalism has taught us to look beyond spectacle and toward structure. That insight is essential, but today it is no longer enough. Peacebuilding must go further. Doughnut criminology matters because it makes violations visible.

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Half of Me Had always Been Waiting

17 Jul 2026 - How watching Cabo Verde in the World Cup awakened a part of my identity I'd long ignored.

In Defense of the International Criminal Court-ICC

15 Jul 2026 - At a time when risks are rising and international cooperation is under attack, we need institutions capable of managing risks that no single country can, alone. The International Criminal Court is such an institution of world law. 

Encasement within Contrasting Polyhedral Baskets

Psychosocial Transcendence through Dynamic Exchange and Sonification with AI Assistance - In the quest for coherence in a society faced with polycrisis, consideration can be given to the coherent patterns identified through geometry and variously appreciated as symbols.

The Abundance Paradigm: Meaning beyond Work (Part 5)

For thousands of years, work has been the means by which we fed our families, earned our place in society, and gave structure to our lives. We have come to equate paid employment with identity. That presumption may soon be rendered obsolete by AI.

Hanna Arendt’s Totalitarian Nightmare Is Suicidal for the Liberal West

16 Jul 2026 - A few thoughtful humanistic voices that I watch & learn from, plus Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy take-aways. First, Alon Mizrahi, an Israeli-born Arab Jew, who knows the genocidally racist society and the state inside out.

What is the Common Good?

13 Jul 2026 - Is Today’s World System Capable of This Concept? - The concept of the common good lives in the background of our world but is rarely explicitly discussed.

Who Is “We”? Identity, Empire, and the Theft of Solidarity

17 Jul 2026 - The word “we” appears to unite, but it often conceals the unequal distribution of power, suffering and responsibility. To ask how “we” arrived at the present crisis is therefore...

Berar: The Forgotten Crossroads of Indian Civilisation

17 Jul 2026 - Berar occupies a distinctive place in India's intellectual history. Situated between northern India and the Deccan, Berar became a meeting ground for Islamic scholarship, Persian administrative culture, Urdu literature, Marathi learning, and, later, Western education.

SPOTLIGHT

Statement of ICC President Judge Tomoko Akane on the Day of International Criminal Justice

17 Jul 2026 - Twenty-eight years ago today, the Rome Statute was born. On this International Criminal Justice Day, let us recall that the international rule of law cannot exist without independent judicial institutions that uphold the law through the decisions of impartial judges. The International Criminal Court is one such institution.

Trump Administration Vows to ‘Disable’ International Criminal Court

13 Jul 2026 - US State Department ups pressure campaign on international tribunal, threatening allies who support investigations.

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From Brain Capture to Intellectual Sovereignty

25 Jun 2026 - Since the 1990s, an invisible intellectual architecture has shaped what counts as legitimate economic thought, narrowing debate until it seems like there are no alternatives. Reversing this brain capture is an urgent task.

A Dream Deferred but Still Alive

Roosevelt reported that the Yalta conference of Allied leaders had agreed upon “a common ground for peace.”  It would “spell the end of the system of unilateral action, the exclusive alliances, the spheres of influence, the balances of power, and all the expedients that have been tried for centuries and always failed.” 

If War Dead Could Speak

1 Jul 2026 - If those killed in war could speak, this is what I imagine they would say. They would claim that war is humanity’s biggest moral failure and that war is the real enemy. They might ask, "Are we savage animals or are we civilized human beings?”

Imperialism and the Moral Decay of the West

15 Jul 2026 - The irreversible decline of the U.S. empire’s global hegemony is not merely an economic or technological issue. Such an reductionist approach would prevent us from grasping the full scope and the many dimensions of this slow but inexorable decline.

AFRICA

Let’s Name the Country That’s Financing Mass Murder

11 Jul 2026 - Last year, experts warned Trump and other world leaders that the UAE-backed R.S.F. militia was to commit a massacre in El Fasher, Sudan. They shrugged as the militia slaughtered 60,000 people. Now the same militia is besieging El Obeid, with half a million inhabitants.

On African Unity vs South African Xenophobia and Afrophobia

The myopic, xenophobic, Afro-phobic embarrassing malaise on display today in South Africa is totally oblivious to any Pan-African or global vision at all. It is rather an atavistic, backward narrow-minded tribal consciousness in need of immediate reeducation and excision.

South Africa’s Top Court Defends Asylum Rights

15 Jul 2026 - Landmark Ruling Curbs Arbitrary Deportations

ANGLO AMERICA

It’s Not Terrorism When We Do It

18 Jul 2026 - Yesterday Pete Hegseth triumphantly tweeted a picture of Iran’s Chabahar maritime port tower collapsing following an attack by the US regime. The image bore a striking resemblance to the collapse of the Twin Towers on 11 September.

Trump Pays Writer E. Jean Carroll $5M in Damages over Rape and Defamation

14 Jul 2026 - US President Donald Trump has paid writer E Jean Carroll more than $5m (£3.7m) in damages three years after he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case, her lawyers confirmed.

Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Officials for Conspiracy against Pro-Palestinian Organizers

14 Jul 2026 - “This case will expose the scheme that sought to criminalize the Palestine solidarity movement in the US.” The lawsuit was filed under the Ku Klux Klan Act, passed to stop groups like the KKK to coordinate with the government to strip individuals of their constitutional rights.

BALKANS AND EASTERN EUROPE

Albania’s Flamingo Revolution Tests the New Western Order

16 Jul 2026 - A major investment project has left Albania caught between diverging US and European interests. The increasingly autonomous protest networks that the West spent decades building in the Balkans are further complicating matters.

EUROPE

‘A Stray Dog with a Toddler’s Arm’: How Israeli Atrocities Fuelled Palestine Action

10 Jul 2026 - Women tell Old Bailey jury why they helped raid Israeli-owned Elbit arms factory near Bristol.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity [read: Depravity]

15 Jul 2026 - Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues. - Last year, the online magazine +972 revealed the existence of a specialised military intelligence unit known as the “legitimisation cell”.

Palestine in Pictures: June 2026

10 Jul 2026 - At least 122 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip during the month of June. Between 3 and 30 June, 115 Palestinians were killed in Gaza or died from injuries sustained previously. Five bodies were recovered from the rubble and more than 500 people were injured.

The Not-So-Secret Israeli Strategy

16 Jul 2026 - This Is the Real Gaza Plan - Here is the bottom line: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no intention of leaving Gaza, either before Israel’s general elections—likely to be held in October—or after.

Genocide Watch Gaza Report

July 2026 - In September 2025, a U.N. Commission Report concluded that Israel has committed four of the five acts of genocide in the Genocide Convention. Yet Israel has continued its atrocities against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

MEDIA

Journalist Recounts How Border Agents Targeted Him over Coverage of Ayatollah’s Funeral

14 Jul 2026 - Grayzone journalist Max Blumenthal says US border agents told him he had no rights, as they took his electronics to invade his privacy and potentially compromise his sources.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI

Ethics as the Architecture of Power: China Proposes a New Global Governance Framework for Artificial Intelligence

19 Jul 2026 - The new Action Plan on International AI Ethical Governance is a proposal to define who will establish the rules governing the development of AI with a distinct conception of the international order, the role of the State, and the place of developing countries.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Heralds a Post-human Era of Economic, Social and Moral Upheavals

There are important risks, threats and disruptions that could result from a blind and too-rapid adoption of all the features of the new technology. Its ‘creative destruction’ could become increasingly powerful and detrimental, especially for workers, but also for writers and artists, for businesses and, finally, for the entire economy and society.

CAPITALISM

Beyond the Interregnum

16 Jul 2026 - Can Democracy Survive Capitalism's Final Crisis?

SPORTS

Win or Lose This World Cup, Argentina Has No Honour nor Does It Enjoy Global Admiration

17 Jul 2026 - This world cup both FIFA and Argentina (i.e., the nation, the football team and the fans, and the golden boy Leonel Messi) have shown their racist, rotten, corrupt cores.

After Controversial Egypt Match, Many Fans from the Global South Are Done with the Soccer World Cup

14 Jul 2026 - Feelings of injustice around the international tournament are a symptom of geopolitics in 2026. - It’s hard to say for sure because of the wizardry involved.

FIFA World Cup: Five Biggest Controversies of the 2026 Tournament

13 Jul 2026 - The 2026 World Cup has been full of controversies – Al Jazeera breaks down the five most significant. What happened to the beautiful game?

POETRY FORMAT

Oh for the Day When the Bombs Stop Falling

17 Jul 2026 - When the humans stop biting and stabbing each other and spraying everything with blood and oil.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

‘Heroes?’ [laughter] Victims and Victimizers (guess who is who)

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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Roger Waters on 9/11, JFK, Gaza, and Why the Israel Lobby Is Trying to Destroy Him

17 Jul 2026 - There’s never been a legitimate criminal investigation into 9-11, the deadliest terror attack in US history. Roger Waters is trying to change that.

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

“Enormous Damage” to U.S. on Iran War Loss

11 Jul 2026 - Katie Halper interviews political scientist John Mearsheimer and economist Yanis Varoufakis on how the US has been losing war after war, yet remaining powerful, and why with Iran it may be a different story.

Jeffrey Sachs: China Offers a Global Vision for AI Governance

17 Jul 2026 - Artificial intelligence is the defining general-purpose technology of our age, with China and the United States emerging as the leading powers.

Tango por una Cabeza (Music Video of the Week)

Teaching the Tango to a Beautiful Woman (Full Scene) | Scent of a Woman - Al Pacino - Gabrielle Anwar - Chris O'Donnell