Friday, June 26, 2026

Tag: Sudan

UN reports nearly half of aid worker killings in 2024 occurred in...

Record killings of humanitarian staff highlight global surge in attacks and lack of accountability

Global hunger crisis deepens as world leaders slash aid amid record...

A record 295 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, as war, climate extremes, and economic shocks collided. With aid funding in freefall, UN officials warn the crisis is no longer just systemic—it is a failure of humanity.
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World ignores Sudan hunger crisis; 230,000 children and mothers could die...

“This is the largest sort of mass mortality crisis that we are facing in the world and the largest that we have probably faced for many decades.”

That other war

This conflict will not be televised.

The persistent allure of military coups

Executions and war are not the inevitable sequel to a popular uprising.

The tragedy of forced displacement

The solutions to this major crisis, and indeed many of our problems, would naturally flow from the recognition of the fact that we are brothers and sisters of one humanity.

The problem isn’t Trump, it’s bigger

While we resist, we also need to promote a positive agenda of what we want to see.

Humanitarian Imperialism? All but Forgotten, South Sudan Unravels

A South Sudan that can’t guarantee basic rights to its citizens isn’t worthy of celebration, let alone international recognition.

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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture

The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."

Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta 

Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.

Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future

Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.

Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool

The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.

Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban

For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.