Mundu multipolarra versus unipolarra
NBE (Nazio Batuen Erakundea) gaindituta, ICC (NAPE) (International Criminal Court) alboratuta, eta Mossad nagusi… aspalditik gainera…
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Stop saying history will judge them, judge Israel now. With ICC judges.
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ICC (international Criminal Court) NAPE (Nazioarteko Arlo Penaleko Epaitegia)
International Criminal Court judges refuse to be bow to Trump’s sanctions as he tries to exempt Israeli and American officials from the rule of law: “We are not going to be intimidated.”
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Ana Kasparian: “I don’t care about the existence of Israel. I don’t believe Israel has the right to exist..”
“So as long as they deny Palestinians their right to exist, I’m not gonna sit here and say, I totally believe in Israel’s right to.. I don’t care..”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2021474621657436643
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The lDF kiII an innocent rescue, live on air.
The media will never show you this.
The lDF is a terrorist organisation.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2021322647372501021
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There’s no point condemning Israel’s actions when you are providing them with the weapons that enable that action. Stop all arms sales to and from Israel NOW!
Aipamena
Reuters@Reuters
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Britain and the United Nations have joined Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates in condemning Israel’s decision to widen its powers in the West Bank
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2021267927987548179
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This is a barbaric siege of a tiny island that is no threat to the US. But it has made a great contribution to human history. Hands off Cuba! End the siege!
Aipamena
Channel 4 News@Channel4News
ots. 10
Cuba is being pushed to the brink by a US blockade. The island’s 11 million people are facing rolling blackouts and food shortages as the UN warns of possible humanitarian ‘collapse’ without oil.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2021300790628057367
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The Prime Minister says he changed the Labour Party.
He’s right. He changed it from a party of principle, workers and peace, to a party of patronage, the establishment and war.
Poverty, corruption and complicity in genocide. That will be his government’s legacy.
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A group of ambassadors have come together to condemn Israel’s push to entrench its control over the occupied West Bank.
Journalist Gabriel Elizondo of Al-Jazeera reports.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2021500222765957305
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Jackson Hinkle 
@jacksonhinklle
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi:
‘If the United States attacks, we will strike American bases and assets in our region—everything they own. But I am a diplomat, and I prefer diplomacy to war.’
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Israel continues to bomb and shoot civilians in Gaza. From the “ceasefire” declaration on 10 Oct. 2025 to 9 Feb. 2026, the Israeli military killed 581 people in Gaza, at least 100 of them children.
31 Jan.: 31 killed
1 Feb.: 26 killed
4 Feb.: 24 killed, among them 7 children.
According to international media, Israel attacked in Gaza on 86 of 101 days of “ceasefire” by mid-January. Trump’s plan divided Gaza with the “yellow line,” leaving Israel with military control of about 50% of the territory. The army later seized additional areas, bringing Israeli control to 56%.
Since several kilometers of the “yellow line” are not marked on the ground, residents cannot know if they enter the “dangerous combat zone” defined by Israel. In the last four months, Israel has killed 216 Palestinians west of the “yellow line” and another 167 near it.
Until the war, about 1 million people lived in the areas east of the line. They are now displaced west of it, living in impossible conditions in tent camps and precarious structures.
As of late January, about 1.3 million people are living in displacement sites across Gaza. Most are in makeshift tents that frequently flood, or in damaged structures at risk of collapse that offer no shelter from rain and wind.
Israel has destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure and healthcare system. Since December, at least 39 people have died of hypothermia or structures collapsing, more than half of them minors.
“Wet tent syndrome” is the name Gaza hospitals have given the health crisis brought on by the extreme cold, high humidity and poor ventilation in tents unfit for habitation. As a result, the number of hospitalized patients has doubled or even tripled within weeks.
Israel is restricting humanitarian aid and deliberately obstructing the delivery of food and medicine. In early January, it banned the operations of 37 humanitarian organizations providing more than half of all food aid in Gaza and supporting 60% of field hospitals.
In February, Rafah Crossing opened for the first time since May 2024. Yet while 18,500 patients await life saving treatment outside Gaza, Israel has allowed only a handful to leave. Residents report physical searches, humiliating interrogations and even arrests, including of patients, older people and women.
Despite some improvement in food availability, most residents cannot afford it. The UN projects that about 101,000 children aged six months to four years and about 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women will require treatment for acute malnutrition by October 2026.
The international community continues to turn its back on the people of Gaza. Four months into the “ceasefire,” the killing, destruction and displacement in Gaza continue and Israel’s control over the residents
“The West Bank’s Area C is almost completely ethnically cleansed” | Haaretz Podcast
Afshin Rattansi@afshinrattansi
Colombia’s
Gustavo Petro details how he just escaped an assassination, saying his helicopter’s landing site was compromised by assassins and that he and his family had to fly out to sea and land in an alternative location.
Another CIA coup attempt?
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2021533766326669699
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In October 2025, 165 countries voted to end the brutal US embargo against Cuba.
This marked the *33rd consecutive year* that the UN adopted a resolution calling for an end to the embargo. It’s clear as day that the US is a rogue state.
The evidence for this is overwhelming.
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Israel possesses nuclear weapons that represent a serious danger to humanity and should be subject to disarmament without delay. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors should be granted full transparency. Given the gravity of genocide as defined under international law by the United Nations framework and examined in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, Israel should not retain the ability to use such weapons against any country in the world.
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Single vaccine could shake the global cancer industry to its core
China is preparing to approve Russia’s groundbreaking cancer vaccine, a development that could disrupt the $2.6 trillion Western oncology market. This vaccine, designed to target and train the immune system to attack cancer cells, represents a major shift from traditional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation. If widely adopted, it could transform how cancer is prevented and treated around the world.
Unlike conventional therapies that often damage healthy cells and come with severe side effects, this vaccine works by boosting the body’s natural defences. Early trials suggest it can slow tumor growth, prevent recurrence, and potentially improve survival rates, offering hope to millions of patients who have limited treatment options.
The economic implications are massive. Western pharmaceutical companies have long dominated cancer care with treatments generating billions in revenue annually. A safe and effective vaccine from Russia, endorsed and distributed by China, could challenge this dominance, making accessible, cost-effective cancer care available on a global scale and shifting the balance of the industry.
Beyond economics, the approval highlights a new era in medicine where prevention and immune system empowerment take centre stage. It reflects growing global collaboration in research, innovation, and healthcare solutions, potentially reducing cancer mortality while making therapies faster, safer, and more affordable.
This historic step is a reminder that medical breakthroughs can reshape industries and save lives simultaneously. As the world watches, a new chapter in cancer treatment is emerging—one where science, accessibility, and hope may finally align for millions around the globe.
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CHINA MFA Spokesperson 中国外交部发言人@MFA_China
China rejects the U.S.’s groundless accusation of Chinese nuclear explosive tests. The accusation is a false pretext sought by the U.S. for resuming nuclear tests.
The U.S. should renew its commitment to a moratorium on nuclear testing that the U.S. made along with the other four nuclear-weapon states, uphold the global consensus on nuclear test ban, and take concrete actions to safeguard the international nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation regime.
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‘Unconscionable’: Arundhati Roy Leaves Berlinale after Jury Comments on Gaza
Honen bidez: @AlfreddeZayas
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‘Unconscionable’: Arundhati Roy Leaves Berlinale after Jury Comments on Gaza
Arundhati Roy Roy canceled her Berlinale appearance following comments urging artists to stay apolitical. (Photos: Wikimedia. Design: Palestine Chronicle)
Indian author and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy withdrew from the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival after remarks by jury president Wim Wenders that filmmakers should remain outside politics ignited a dispute linked to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, quickly turning the festival’s opening into a broader debate about the role of art during wartime.
Key Takeaways
- Roy canceled her Berlinale appearance following comments urging artists to stay apolitical.
- Wenders argued cinema can influence society but “not in a political way.”
- Roy said the stance suppresses discussion of “a crime against humanity.”
- The dispute unfolded amid scrutiny of Germany’s political support for Israel.
- Roy reiterated her claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
Press Conference Sparks Controversy
The controversy began during the opening press conference of the Berlin International Film Festival on Thursday, when journalists questioned the international competition jury about Gaza and whether films can influence political change.
According to an article published in The Guardian on Friday, German filmmaker Wim Wenders said cinema has transformative power but insisted it does not operate politically, stating that “movies can change the world” but “not in a political way.”
He argued filmmakers “have to stay out of politics” because explicitly political filmmaking moves artists into the realm of politicians rather than acting as “the counterweight of politics.”
The exchange took place as reporters asked the jury about Germany’s backing of Israel — a sensitive issue given the German government provides significant funding to the festival.
Kudos to Arundhati Roy for not bowing down to pressure from Berlinale Film Festival. All art is political & the question is: What kind of politics are you promoting? Genocide enabling or anti-genocide politics. (Btw, her recent book was a pleasure to read)… pic.twitter.com/HRHfVSl6IT
— Muneeb Qadir (@muneebqadirmmq) February 14, 2026
Roy Announces Withdrawal
Roy, who had been scheduled to attend a screening of the restored version of her 1989 film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones in the festival’s Classics section, announced the following day that she would not participate.
In a statement reported by The Guardian, the renowned author described Wenders’ comments as “unconscionable,” adding that hearing claims that art should not be political was “jaw-dropping.”
She said the position amounted to “a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time — when artists, writers and film-makers should be doing everything in their power to stop it.”
Roy also directly addressed the war in Gaza, stating that “what has happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian people by the state of Israel.” She further said the actions are “supported and funded by the governments of the United States and Germany, as well as several other countries in Europe,” making them “complicit in the crime.”
Responses from the Jury
Other members of the jury sought to distance the festival from political responsibility.
Producer Ewa Puszczyńska said the panel’s role was to engage viewers intellectually but that it “cannot be responsible” for whether audiences support Israel or Palestine. She also remarked that “there are many other wars where genocide is committed and we do not talk about that,” according to The Guardian
The international jury includes filmmakers and actors from the United States, Japan, Nepal, South Korea, India and Poland, highlighting the global scope of the disagreement.
The episode reflects ongoing tensions across European cultural spaces, where artists and festivals have increasingly faced scrutiny over statements, programming decisions and public silence regarding Gaza.
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has called for the resignation of #UN Special Rapporteur on #Palestine, Professor Francesca #Albanese @FranceskAlbs. He also defamed her as anti-Semitic and misquoting her #Doha statements.
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The “Munich Security Conference” 13-15 February 2026 has nothing to do with dialogue or with “security.” It is an Olympic waste of money for the military-industrial-complex, tax-subsidized think tanks that can only think of war, militarist echo-chambers and uncritical media .
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Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle
BREAKING: Here is the Ex-head of Mossad ADMITTING that Israel supports ISIS.
Edward Snowden and Julian Assange already exposed that ISIS is a U.S.-Israeli organisation.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2023110062043250840
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STOP – CALLING – IT – A- WAR!!
You, public figures: photographed with your mouths twisted, your eyes wide open, condemning me for words never uttered…
and then staying absolutely silent on the butchers of Gaza!
Aiding and abetting crimes?
May justice come after you soon.
https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/RamAbdu/status/2023079783400112309
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Francesca Albanese denuncia il “CORSERA” per diffamazione.
Alla fine ha deciso di denunciarli.
La relatrice Onu per i territori palestinesi occupati Francesca Albanese ha deciso di denunciare il “Corriere della Sera” per diffamazione, dopo essere stata sbattuta in prima pagina, definita senza mezzi termini “militante sempre più filo Hamas” e persino “partigiana di Hamas” e per averle attribuito quella famosa frase mai pronunciata su Israele “nemico dell’umanità”.
La risposta di Albanese a tutto questo fango è esemplare:
“Al Corriere: indago su Gaza da 859 giorni. Le mie inchieste possono non essere condivise, ma vanno rispettate: frutto di 859 giorni di lavoro mio e altrui su crimini contro la popolazione civile. Per questo ho chiesto ai miei legali di reagire alle vostre diffamazioni: la misura è colma”.
Ha fatto non bene ma benissimo a denunciare. Chiamandoli per nome. Senza nascondersi.
C’è un limite anche alla falsificazione. E nei confronti di Francesca Albanese è stato ampiamente superato.
Solidarietà a questa grande donna.
Soprattutto oggi, nel momento più difficile.
Lorenzo Tosa
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European states have not lifted a single finger against Israel after more than 2 years of genocide. Yet they rush to viciously attack Francesca Albanese over a fabricated quote.
Why?
Because she speaks truth to power — and that truth exposes their participation in genocide.
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For those of us who lost many family members in the Holocaust, it is repulsive to see this suffering weaponised in defence of an apartheid state that is committing a genocide. As my mother, who survived in Vienna hidden in a coal cellar for years, taught us ‘Never Again is for all humanity. That isk the lesson of the Holocaust.’
Aipamena
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt@FranceskAlbs
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Scandalous. Today’s Europe, through its institutions, seems to cynically exploit the memory of 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust to shield Apartheid Israel and silence those who demand justice.
*Had we truly absorbed that lesson, we would not be facing such a moral abyss.
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UN expert Francesca Albanese pushes back against antisemitism accusations by Israel and France for her comments at a panel.
“Anyone from the Pope to the Secretary-General has been accused of antisemitism for simply asking Israel to comply with international law.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/202297071659379547
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it’s genocide (@amnesty)
it’s genocide (@hrw)
it’s genocide (@btselem)
it’s genocide (@MSF)
it’s genocide (IAGS)
it’s genocide (@alhaq_org)
it’s genocide (@UNHumanRights)
it’s genocide (@UN_HR)
it’s genocide (@pchrgaza)
it’s genocide (@AlMezanCenter)
it’s genocide (@WarOnWant)
it’s genocide (@PHRIsrael)
it’s genocide (@fidh_en)
it’s genocide (PHROC)
it’s genocide (@LemkinInstitute)
it’s genocide (@theCCR)
it’s genocide (@ECCHRBerlin)
it’s genocide (@unitedforrights)
it’s genocide (@JURDIasso)
it’s genocide (@TheElders)
it’s genocide (@Oxfam)
Its highly controversial to agree with the conclusions of every relevant human rights organization in the world (@dwnews)
Aipamena
James Jackson@derJamesJackson
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German state funded media DW News editorialise that calling Gaza a genocide is “highly controversial” – despite 88% of genocide scholars, UN committees and every major human rights groups calling it such
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UN expert Francesca Albanese pushes back against antisemitism accusations by Israel and France for her comments at a panel.
“Anyone from the Pope to the Secretary-General has been accused of antisemitism for simply asking Israel to comply with international law.”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2022970716593795478
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At the Munich Security Conference this weekend, I told a hard truth. There is no ceasefire in Gaza. The assault continues. Palestinians continue to die. And Trump is issuing glossy brochures about fake future Gaza real estate deals instead of working to end the war.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2022956456593563928
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Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil@ivan_8848
Kudos to Chris Hedges!
The Mass killing in Gaza!
The Death of Israel!
Chris Hedges an honest, brave man is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper.
Israel’s Lebensraum master plan for Gaza, borrowed from the Nazis’ depopulation of Jewish ghettos, is clear.
Destroy infrastructure, medical facilities and sanitation, including access to clean water.
Block shipments of food and fuel.
Impose telecommunications blackouts.
Unleash indiscriminate industrial violence to kill and wound hundreds a day.
Let starvation and epidemics of infectious diseases, along with the daily massacres and the displacement of Palestinians from their homes, turn Gaza into a mortuary.
Israel has killed or seriously wounded close to 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza, almost one in every 20 inhabitants.
It has destroyed or damaged 60% of the housing.
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The Nazis ship their victims to death camps.
The Israelis will ship their victims to squalid refugee camps in countries outside of Israel.
This is the plan.
No one, especially the Biden administration, intends to stop it.
The most disturbing lesson I learned while covering armed conflicts for two decades is that we all have the capacity, with little prodding, to become willing executioners.
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We can all become Nazis. It takes very little. in eternal vigilance over evil, our evil, we become, like those carrying out the mass killing in Gaza, monsters.
Perhaps the saddest irony is that a people once in need of protection from genocide now commit it.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2023161662728024398
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Éric Cantona reiterates his support for Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who has been attacked for a comment about Israel that she didn’t actually make.
In France and Italy, several politicians are calling for her resignation for calling Israel a “common enemy of humanity.” Albanese, however, never said these words: the phrase came from a doctored video.
Cantona is not the only famous international figure to have spoken out in support of Albanese: a letter in his support was recently signed by 100 artists.
(The photo is from a few months ago; Cantona reshared it on Instagram today.)
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L’Onu difende Francesca Albanese. La portavoce dell’Unhcr Marta Hurtado: “False le accuse su Israele, preoccupati per disinformazione e attacchi personali. La relatrice speciale non ha mai definito nessuno Stato come “nemico dell’umanità”. Invito tutti a vedere e leggere le sue dichiarazioni“
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The Epstein files are being withheld because Jeffrey Epstein had close ties to Israeli intelligence and US intelligence, according to Congressman Thomas Massie.
He also says the files are being blocked because they implicate powerful billionaires and political donors who he claims are friends of US President Donald Trump.
Massie says there has been an “effort in trying to stop this, and I do believe they’ll try to stop it somewhere else and that’s going to backfire on them too.”
Massie has been a frequent critic of Trump in recent years, publicly breaking with him on foreign policy, executive power, and transparency issues.
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2023202334508245485
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Over the weekend Israel bombed camps where displaced Palestinians were sheltering.
A father whose son was killed asks, “Do you believe that Trump will.. defend us? He’s the one supplying Israel with deadly weapons.. money.. political support.. protection”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2023286608112259092
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John Mearsheimer:
“If I were the Iranians, I’d go out and get a nuclear deterrent..”
“If Iran had nuclear weapons, we would not be doing these sorts of things to Iran, nor would the
Israelis. The North Koreans figured this out…”
Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2023135224498970846
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No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council https://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/no-us-war-on-iran-an-open-letter-to-the-un-security-council/
Honen bidez: @AlfreddeZayas
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No US War on Iran: An Open Letter to the UN Security Council
Jeffrey D. Sachs | February 16, 2026
The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of negotiations that had already succeeded.
Distinguished Members of the Security Council,
The President of the United States is issuing grave threats of force against the Islamic Republic of Iran if it does not accede to US demands. His actions risk a major regional war that would be devastating. Asked if he wanted regime change, he responded that it “seems like that would be the best thing that could happen.” When asked why a second US aircraft carrier has been sent to the region, President Trump answered “in case we don’t make a deal, we’ll need it … if we need it, we’ll have it ready.”
These threats are in violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which declares that “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”
These threats come in the context of Iran’s repeated calls for negotiations. Moreover, on February 7, Iran’s Foreign Minister delivered a speech in Doha proposing comprehensive negotiations for regional peace, following a round of talks in Oman supported by the diplomacy of the Arab states and Türkiye. Even as a second round of negotiations has been announced, the US is resorting to escalating threats of force.
The issue facing the UN Security Council in these perilous days is whether any member state, by force or threat of force, may place itself above the United Nations Charter that governs us all. At stake is the integrity of the UN-based international system.
One of the crucial roles of the Security Council is to call on member states to settle disputes by peaceful means such as negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or judicial settlement, without the threat of force or resort to force. Today, the world is in urgent need of a renewed commitment to diplomacy.
The current threat of an attack by the US did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiation of negotiations that had already succeeded.
On July 14, 2015, after years of extensive diplomacy, Iran and the P5 countries plus Germany concluded the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program would remain exclusively peaceful. In return, economic sanctions on Iran were to be lifted. The JCPOA placed Iran’s nuclear activities under strict and continuous scrutiny by the International Atomic Energy Agency and thereby ended the risk of a nuclear-arms breakout by Iran, a risk that Iran had consistently denied.
On July 20, 2015, the UNSC unanimously adopted Resolution 2231. That resolution “endorses the JCPOA” and calls upon all states to take the steps “necessary to support the implementation.” It terminated previous sanctions resolutions and incorporated the JCPOA into international law. The Security Council explicitly recognized Iran’s “right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes” under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and established a robust verification regime.
Yet on May 8, 2018, three years after the successful UNSC Resolution, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA. This withdrawal was actively lobbied for by the Israeli government. Since the late 1990s, Israel’s leadership has repeatedly, falsely, and hypocritically claimed that Iran was on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon, even as Israel itself had secretly acquired nuclear weapons outside the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and has until today refused to join the treaty and subject itself to its controls.
When President Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the JCPOA, the US reimposed wide-ranging sanctions in direct contradiction of Resolution 2231 and launched a campaign of economic warfare designed to cripple Iran’s economy that continues to this day.
The current threats by the US are therefore part of a long-standing pattern of feigning interest in negotiations while in fact pursuing economic warfare and military force. In June 2025, following the renewal of negotiations earlier that year, the United States and Iran entered a sixth round of talks. The US had characterized the negotiations as constructive and positive. The sixth round was set for June 15, 2025. Yet on June 13, 2025, the US supported Israel’s bombing of Iran. A week after that, the US attacked Iran under Operation Midnight Hammer.
The US assault on the UN Charter has now escalated once again to the brink of war, with US threats of force and acts of economic warfare proceeding daily. The US has been escalating its military presence near Iran and has repeatedly threatened to launch an imminent attack.
The administration has also been candid about its strategy of economic warfare. On January 20, in an interview in Davos, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described how the US had deliberately engineered the collapse of the Iranian currency, a dollar shortage, and a collapse of imports, all with the goal of fomenting economic suffering and mass unrest. Bessent described the resulting unrest as “moving in a very positive way here.”
The most striking aspect of the US campaign for regime change in Iran is the repeated US insistence that Iran must negotiate. Iran has negotiated, repeatedly. The JCPOA was negotiated and ratified by the UN Security Council. Even after Iran engaged in renewed negotiations last summer, it faced large scale air strikes on its territory. Now, the US openly avows the policy of economic collapse and regime change.
No country is safe if the United States can make brazen threats against Iran and indeed several other states in recent weeks, including Cuba, Denmark, and others.
It is both sad and poignant to recall that the United Nations was the brainchild of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He envisioned an era of great-power cooperation and multilateralism under international law as the basis of international peace and security. His wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, oversaw the drafting and adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The US at that time envisioned an era in which diplomacy would prosper, and a time in which law and justice rather than brute force would prevail, a time when we would honor the words of the Prophet Isaiah inscribed on the wall on First Avenue facing the United Nations: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn war any more.”
To allow the UN Charter to be ruthlessly violated, no less by its host country, is to invite the return to global war, this time in the nuclear age. In other words, it is to invite humanity’s self-destruction. On behalf of We the Peoples, the UN Security Council carries the authority and heavy responsibility to keep the peace.
Sincerely yours,
Jeffrey D. Sachs
University Professor at Columbia University
Appendix. I humbly offer below an illustrative Draft Resolution by which the UNSC could fulfill its duty in the current context.
The Security Council,
Recalling the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, in particular the obligation of all Member States to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, as set forth in Article 2(4) of the Charter,
Reaffirming that the maintenance of international peace and security rests upon respect for international law, the authority of the Security Council, and the peaceful settlement of disputes,
Recalling its resolution 2231 (2015), adopted unanimously on 20 July 2015, by which the Security Council endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and called upon all Member States to take actions necessary to support its implementation,
Reaffirming its commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the need for all States Party to that Treaty to comply fully with their obligations, and recalling the right of States Party, in conformity with Articles I and II of that Treaty, to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination
Acting under the Charter of the United Nations,
- Calls upon all Member States to immediately and unconditionally cease all threats or uses of force and to comply fully with their obligations under Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations;
- Acknowledges that the JCPOA constituted a valid multilateral negotiation endorsed by the Security Council, and recognizes that the abandonment of the JCPOA resulted from the unilateral withdrawal of the United States;
- Decides that, under its authority, the UNSC mandates all States concerned to immediately engage in negotiations to conclude a renewed comprehensive arrangement on the Iranian nuclear issue, building upon the principles of the JCPOA and fully consistent with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;
- Calls upon all Member States to refrain from actions that undermine diplomatic efforts, escalate tensions, or weaken the authority of the United Nations;
- Decides to remain actively seized of the matter.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jeffrey-sachs-un-security-council-iran
https://www.other-news.info/no-us-war-on-iran-an-open-letter-to-the-un-security-council/
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Special Procedures’ Coordination Committee condemns attacks against Francesca Albanese by State representatives: ‘Promote justice, not disinformation’ https://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/special-procedures-coordination-committee-condemns-attacks-against-francesca-albanese-by-state-representatives-promote-justice-not-disinformation/
Honen bidez:
February 18, 2026
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Special Procedures’ Coordination Committee condemns attacks against Francesca Albanese by State representatives: ‘Promote justice, not disinformation’
GENEVA (17 February 2026) – The Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council today condemned vicious attacks, rooted in disinformation, by several State Ministers against Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
“We denounce actions by Ministers of certain States to rely on manufactured facts and criticise Ms Albanese for statements that she never made at the 17th Al Jazeera Forum,” the Committee said.
The events follow an organised campaign against Albanese and the imposition of illegal sanctions against her last year with devastating consequences to her and her family. The Committee expressed concerns about an increasing trend of politically motivated and malicious attacks against independent human rights experts, UN officials and judges of international courts, who are pursuing accountability, becoming the new normal.
“States claiming to uphold human rights, justice and the rule of law should invest their time and energy in holding to account perpetrators of egregious human rights violations, rather than targeting those investigating and exposing international crimes in an objective way,” the Committee said.
The Committee reminded States that the Special Rapporteur is mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to “investigate Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law, international humanitarian law and the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War … in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967.”
“Instead of demanding Ms Albanese’s resignation for performing her mandate in very challenging circumstances – including persistent intimidation, coordinated personal attacks and unlawful unilateral sanctions – these Government representatives should join forces to hold accountable, including before the International Criminal Court, leaders and officials accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza,” the Committee said.
The Committee encourages all States to reflect on how they have contributed to lawlessness and world disorder by enabling, encouraging or defending the illegal actions of the Government of Israel.
“States must look in the mirror and undertake urgent course correction. States must choose to stand on the right side of history.”
“We stand in solidarity with Ms Albanese and with the people of Palestine who have been suffering unlawful occupation, apartheid and ongoing genocide,” the Committee said.
ENDS
The Coordination Committee is a body of six independent experts which coordinates and facilitates the work of special procedures as a whole. It is currently composed of Surya Deva, Chair, Special Rapporteur on the right to development; Jovana Jezdimirovic Ranito, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, Siobhán Mullally, Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Tomoya Obokata, Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences, and Alexandra Xanthaki, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury,
proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, being a BRICS partner…
Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka
eta
Esadazu arren, zer da gu euskaldunok egiten ari garena eta zer egingo dugun
gehi
MTM: Zipriztinak (2), 2025: Warren Mosler
(Pinturak: Mikel Torka)
Gehigarriak:
MTM klase borrokarik gabe, kontabilitate hutsa
Anthony Anastosi: Estatu dirua, Klase borroka
1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)
