
The US Secretary of State’s Speech in Athens: Justifying Aggression Through an Ideology of Antiquarianism
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s October 7, 2026, speech on Pnyx Hill in Athens, facing the ruins of the Acropolis, was a blatant attempt to

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to development

Former Member of the Iraq Parliament

Founding Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce

Lector for Political Science at the Universities of Vienna and Krems,

Activist and Campaigner for Peace and Disarmament

Assistant Professor in International Relations at Florida International University

President of the Board of World BEYOND War

Director of Religious Freedoms Department in Peace Organization for Human Rights

Human Rights Activist

President of the Arab Observatory for Human Rights and Citizenship

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s October 7, 2026, speech on Pnyx Hill in Athens, facing the ruins of the Acropolis, was a blatant attempt to

In September 2026, the eighty-first annual session of the United Nations General Assembly was convened pursuant to Article 20 of the United Nations Charter. It

Following the collapse of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, the U.S. government announced a broad campaign aimed at the complete economic isolation of Iran. In

On the evening of September 1, 2026, the armed forces of the United States targeted areas in southern Iran in their attacks. US military officials,

During the third informal consultative meeting of the five major Powers—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and China—held on May 12,

In March and April of 2026, reports submitted by United Nations human rights experts and the Human Rights Council’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran