Rafael Grossi and Ali Bagheri Upon instructions from my Government, I am writing to share with you the deep concerns of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the grave failure and inaction by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, in fulfilling his mandate and responsibilities under the IAEA statute.…
Voltaire Network | 20 June 2025 • Arriving at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, US President Donald Trump publicly lamented the exclusion of Russia from the G7. While the summit was supposed to end on June 17, he left it before the end, a day early. He had already left the virtual…
BALTIMORE — At first glance, Ben Jealous appears to be a good bet to become Maryland’s first black governor. Running in a blue state — where Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one and nearly one in three voters is African-American — against an incumbent Republican governor, Jealous is a liberal Democrat, a son of Baltimore,…
The worst hate group in the United States is not the Ku Klux Klan or any self-proclaimed alt-right group. The most racist, vicious, and deadly menace to black people in this country is law enforcement. The police, courts and prisons exist primarily to keep as many black people under control as possible. All other claims…
NEW YORK — In her 1993 bestseller, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, the African-American author Jill Nelson wrote that when newsrooms and police departments began to integrate following the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., white journalists and patrolmen often encouraged their new black co-workers to prove their professional loyalty by “shooting their…
CINCINNATI, OHIO — In a stinging rebuke of Black Lives Matter (BLM), the organization’s local affiliate here last month announced that it was severing all ties to a movement it characterized as opportunistic, too invested in liberal, electoral politics and the Democratic party, and ultimately ineffective in fighting state-sanctioned violence against African-Americans. Black Lives Matter…
Rafael Grossi and Ali Bagheri Upon instructions from my Government, I am writing to share with you the deep concerns of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding the grave failure and inaction by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, in fulfilling his mandate and responsibilities under the IAEA statute.…
Voltaire Network | 20 June 2025 • Arriving at the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, US President Donald Trump publicly lamented the exclusion of Russia from the G7. While the summit was supposed to end on June 17, he left it before the end, a day early. He had already left the virtual…
I am writing to you with utmost urgency and deep alarm regarding a brazen and unlawful act of aggression perpetrated by the Israeli regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a reckless and deliberate escalation that flagrantly violates the Charter of the United Nations and the most fundamental norms of international law, Israel has…
Tens of thousands of people marched in Rome on June 21, 2025, to protest militarization, NATO and support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The imperialist North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) held its annual summit meeting of heads of state and heads of government June 25-26 in The Hague, capital of the Netherlands and that country’s…
