What I learnt from a recent independent study and analysis in the British Medical Journal, on the nature of war in #Gaza. www.aljazeera.com/video/quotab...

There is merit in the complaint that you cant run a major UN agency remotely: US seeks ouster of UN drug and crime agency chief www.devex.com/news/exclusi...

Think of Trump what you will he has unerring ability to stick his finger in every crack in society and his questions cant be dismissed. One of them on the purpose of the United Nations is the topic for my column below: www.mukeshkapila.org/trump-is-rig...

Historical slavery was terrible with everyone all around the world at it for millennia. But demands for trillions in reparation are a ridiculous distraction when we should be more productively occupied dealing with today's injustices. www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

Around the UN’s 80th anniversary, much debate on it’s role. In this TRTWorld panel, I argue that we must go beyond the standard angst and lamentation about US conduct and Security Council reform. look forward to a new order of ditributed power & not cry over spilt mik. youtu.be/6ma49XNifNM?...

Suffering of Gaza people is exactly same whether or not it is described as genocide & using such language does not stop ongoing horrors Perhaps even makes resolution more difficult. Aid agencies have duty to help not posture. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/09... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

An informative must-watch. With prevailing popular attitudes despite the few dissenting voices, in Israel, a two-state solution for Palestine - what is still left of it - is less likely than chances of hell freezing over. youtu.be/nMyyVaiY4V8?...

Is this the Chinese economic model for success or a warning? www.reuters.com/investigatio...

With much respect and sympathy for the author of this piece who has dementia but “loves life” and deserves all compassionate support, it is hardly a convincing case for legalizing assisted suicide. There is no right to die and creating one is an immoral and dangerous trend. aje.io/v0r5bi

What is a photo-reporter wanting you to see & how does that shape perceptions? Listen/watch my “Fading Causes" podcast with the extraordinary Ximena Borrazas, we talk on sexual violence inTigray & much more: the power and responsibility of wielding a camera in war www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0E...

As the #UN celebrates its 80th anniversary, why should the disappointed hordes continue to place faith in its original ideals? Kul Gautam, ex-Deputy Exec Director of UNICEF tries to convince me in the latest episode of my “Fading Causes” podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Qx...

It does not matter whether “genocide” or “famine” are called out, or where… whether Gaza or Darfur, Sudan.: Where There’s No Debate — and No Response Either www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

True - but only if an editor doesn’t change the true sense of what a writer is saying. I have come across too many editors who do that - perhaps they are simply frustrated writers

The world is learning to live with the Taliban economist.com/asia/2025/08... from The Economist

If you think you knew all about African slavery, you are gravely mistaken. My latest conversation on The Fading Causes Podcast exposes some uncomfortable facts beyond the white-man-enslaving-the-black narrative. Listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=-onQ...

On the day that Gaza City is officially declared to be in famine, my latest article reflects on the long history of why food deprivation has always been a slow but most efficient weapon of war and is the preferred least-cost atrocity to inflict on opponents. www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comm...

Proportion of civilian deaths in Gaza approaches the levels seen in recognised genocides Rwanda and Srebrenica and if you add the civilian & unknown status proportions in Sudan which is skewed by Darfur genocides.

Returning to Afghanistan: Peace Changed the Village Where War Changed Me www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w...

To really end poverty and hunger requires turning conventional wisdom on development practices on its head. That is the basis of my latest Episode 7 of the Fading Causes Podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSil...

#Sudan www.bbc.com/news/article...

As cholera surges in Darfur and spreads around Sudan and perhaps wider, it is important to say as it is in relation to world's biggest humanitarian and human rights crisis. My remarks via TRTWorld www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Su...

Two key issues for our time: climate change and migration. Should we be optimistic or despairing over how well we are dealing with them? In my latest ‘Fading Causes Podcast' , I talk to Ovais Sarmad, former high UN official who dedicate his life on that. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdQV...

While the London peace conference on #Sudan was convening in April,, one of the biggest massacres in #Darfur was unfolding. The awful and tragic irony of it.. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Good to hear that at last, as I suggested at the very beginning, UN agencies are talking on cooperation with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation instead of constantly badmouthing each other. For the sake of people of Gaza work together & maximise aid delivery www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...

So sorry for the UN. They are heartbroken that nobody reads their reports. Please show a bit of kindness and read one of their reports today - doesn't matter which topic. www.reuters.com/world/un-rep...

Must read for all interested in Ethiopia. Clearest first-person account of a tragedy foretold where people of Tigray start killing each other. What a betrayal of their earlier anti-genocide struggle against Addis and Asmara. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

Hardly a surprise.. atrocities beget atrocities whether by Israel or Hamas and, as time passes, who did what to whom first gets moot www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The latest chapter of Palestinian recognition simply compounds - not correct - the successive colonial errors ofthe region's history from Ottoman times to today. Continuing war and suffering are to be expected www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/w...

While policymakers quarrel over suitability & acceptability of UN and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for aid delivery, this is a small but practical example of how ordinary Americans are contributing to keep people alive: GoFundMe-backed Gaza Soup Kitchen www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025...

In recognising Palestine, Britain and France won’t advance peace economist.com/leaders/2025...

France Will Recognize Palestinian Statehood, Macron Says: OK as a gesture - but will this feed the starving dying people of Gaza or get the Israeli hostages released by Hamas? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

The flowers laid on memorials for the 30th anniversary of Srebrenica genocide have already faded. What about the lessons? Of course they aren’t static as each generation sees the past with new eyes. My own reflections on wider implications for war and peace: www.mukeshkapila.org/the-complex-...

Wars are calculated, rational acts of cruelty. So can you be a good soldier? My guest on my Fading Causes podcast, Major General James Cowan is no starry-eyed idealist and he has seen action in many of our most brutal trouble spots. What made him good? Listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW27...

It is four years since 3 MSF aid workers were murdered in Tigray probably by Ethiopian forces.The Government has spent FOUR years investigating. Obviously with no intent to reveal the truth of what happened. msf.or.ke/sites/defaul...

The #UN is turning 80. Does it need reform or a new doctrine? The audio/video of my conversation with thanks to Ireti Bakare-Yusuf, the effervescent host of the Borderlines programme at NigeriaInfo www.youtube.com/live/6roy0Gu...

🇷🇸 #Serbia [opinion] - While the denial of the #Srebrenica genocide has become official policy in Serbia and Republika Srpska it is now amplified by geopolitical alliances with countries that actively undermine international law, as Refik Hodžić explains. www.justiceinfo.net/en/147752-30...

As truth is distorted and memories silenced, it seems that an ethnically polarised Bosnia is struggling to learn from the Srebrenica Genocide of 30 years ago. This is bad news for its future as denied histories are always more likely to repeat. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The United Nations at 80. Too old or not old enough? Look forward to discussing this question on this extended radio chat show.

And so the jockeying for positions of leadership at UN and its agencies start. "The reality is that the next generation of leaders will spend their time managing retreat, retrenchment and redundancies" So who are best for that? www.devex.com/news/the-un-...

Smarter people are not necessarily more compassionate or moral. Consistent with history that genocides - Nazi, Rwanda, etc directed by intellectualised perps, not stupids. Concerning implication is that educating ourselves out of inhumanity not such an easy solution www.psypost.org/people-with-...

So, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for key Taliban chiefs! Although this is unlikely to produce practical justice or relief of suffering, it is a modicum of comfort for victims to see their wrongs acknowledged. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/08/a...

It is not just the Dalai Lama who is into reincarnation…https://www.passblue.com/2025/06/30/in-gaza-hamas-regenerates-itself-despite-israels-relentless-killings/?utm_source=PassBlue+List&utm_campaign=d4a1c52ed1-RSS-ST_SetonHall_22Mar2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4795f55662-d4a1c52ed1-55031961

After a decade in office as UN High Commissioner for refugees at UNHCR Filippo Grandi later this year. A good record of service in context of hostile world changes. Farewell from the Geneva diplomatic community at a time diplomacy & multilateralism are increasingly out of favour

A mixed bag at WHO reform. Some reactions: “Cutting Fat or shifting it about" “We are caught in a trap. Either we recycle leaders who helped create this mess, or we bring in outsiders with no real grasp of WHO’s dysfunction,” healthpolicy-watch.news/exclusive-wh...

Will the Israel-Iran war drive more countries towards getting nuclear 'insurance'? My recent oped. www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comm...

North Korea - with more advanced nuclear weaponisation capabilities - is learning from Iran’s failures. What to do? thediplomat.com/2025/06/iran...

23/06 - BANGLADESH DETAINS HASINA ERA EX-ELECTION CHIEF A Bangladesh court on Monday remanded in custody the former elections chief for his alleged role in rigging the vote in favour of now-ousted autocrat Sheikh Hasina. www.justiceinfo.net/en/146864-ba...

#Syria [interview] - In post-Assad Syria, the “truth tents” offer a space for victims’ families to discuss #truth and #justice. Jad al-Hamada, one of the truth tents’ initiators, speaks to Justice Info about the demand for #TransitionalJustice in Syria.

Mirror, mirror on the wall… where is the greatest suffering of all? Gaza? Sudan? Etc? Depends not on statistics but on the eye of the beholder and what they wish to perceive and why. That is, of course, no comfort or solution to those affected. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature...

Impressed by how fast Europe is progressing in developing Sycophancy as its new weapon of war.