@una-uk.bsky.social Where can I find the video of the Sec Gen event?
Mark Leon Goldberg
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Veteran international affairs journalist. Editor, UN Dispatch. Host and founder, Global Dispatches. https://www.globaldispatches.org/
All signs are pointing to a very, very long term closure of the Strait of Hormuz. But -- and this is key -- there is a potential diplomatic path forward that's being floated around the United Nations www.globaldispatches.org/p/the-united...
The United Nations Has a Blueprint for Opening the Strait of Hormuz
As shipping grinds to a halt and food and energy prices rise, the UN may have a tested diplomatic model for navigating the Hormuz standoff.
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Even if Donald Trump declares victory and moves on, the instability this conflict has unleashed will not be easily contained www.globaldispatches.org/p/ten-days-o...
Ten Days On, The Pathologies Of War Are Starting to Show
The law of unintended consequences is setting in.
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Like in 2003, this claim is directly contradicted by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoTrump: "If we didn't hit within 2 weeks, they would've had a nuclear weapon. When crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen."
The very same Middle Eastern countries temporarily allied in their campaign against the common enemy of Iran are simultaneously competing against each other in a tangled mess of interlocking conflicts in this entire region. www.globaldispatches.org/p/how-the-wa...
How the War in Iran Spreads Beyond the Middle East
Iran is poised to join a series of interlocking conflicts across two continents and 800 million people
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News that the US is backing Kurdish fighters opens The Nightmare Scenario from a humanitarian perspective: Iran becomes one node in an series of interlocking proxy wars that stretches all the way to South Sudan, impacting some 800 million people. www.globaldispatches.org/p/how-the-wa...
How the War in Iran Spreads Beyond the Middle East
Iran is poised to join a series of interlocking conflicts across two continents and 800 million people
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Here's my full conversation with @dassakaye.bsky.social about where things may be headed: www.globaldispatches.org/p/off-ramps-...
Off-Ramps or Escalation -- How Does The Iran War End?
Expert analysis from Dalia Dassa Kaye
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Melania Trump is scheduled to chair a meeting of the UN Security Council this afternoon on "Children, Technology and Education in Conflict" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Death toll from school bombing in southern Iran reportedly rises to 165
Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media
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I’ll be speaking with @dassakaye.bsky.social, author of the definitive book about US-Iran policy. What do you want to learn? open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: Off-Ramps or Escalation -- How Does Iran War End?
Starting Mar 1 at 1:00 PM EST
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As we saw with the Washington Post, the first to go will be the international correspondents. (And note, at Ted Turner’s insistence, they are not known as “foreign correspondents” at CNN)
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5mo agoCNN has a solid, well-funded newsroom, regardless of the network’s editorial slant. a lot of good reporters will lose their jobs, and the public will lose all the stories they would’ve reported. and they are one of the last newsrooms to pay for costly but critical on the ground war correspondents.
This is a really helpful explanation of what is at stake in this dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon --> www.globaldispatches.org/p/anthropic-...
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: The High-Stakes Fight Over Military AI—and Autonomous Weapons
Will the leading AI company let the Pentagon use its model to develop "killer robots?"
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I'm about to go live at half past the hour (1130 ET) with Military-AI expert Anna Hehir, to discuss this high stakes dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: A Military-AI Expert Explains the High-Stakes Dispute Between Anthropic and the Pentagon
Starting Feb 26 at 11:30 AM EST
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Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea are morphing into one giant interlocking conflict impacting about 200 million people. www.globaldispatches.org/p/ethiopia-i...
Ethiopia Is Sliding Fast Toward Major War
You need to be paying attention to Ethiopia right now.
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People really need to be paying attention to what’s happening in Ethiopia right now. It’s getting virtually no attention in the western media, but the entire region is on the brink of a cataclysmic major war. www.globaldispatches.org/p/ethiopia-i...
Ethiopia Is Sliding Fast Toward Major War
You need to be paying attention to Ethiopia right now.
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It’s gotten virtually no coverage in western media outlets, but Ethiopia and Eritrea are headed fast towards a new war that could engulf the whole Horn of Africa. Livestream coming at 2:30 ET open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: Ethiopia Is Sliding Fast Toward Major War—Again
Starting Feb 24 at 2:30 PM EST
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All eyes are on Iran...but the US has also positioned gun boats off the coast of Haiti! www.globaldispatches.org/p/why-has-th...
Why Has the United States Deployed Gunboats to Haiti?
As a new UN-backed force prepares to deploy to Haiti, a political, security and humanitarian crisis deepens
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It is kind of telling that this Board of Peace is like an uber-manel. Not a single woman was called on to speak this morning.
"We have peace in the middle east right now" says Trump, at his Board of Peace Meeting as he positions massive numbers of bombers to the region. Referring to Iran: "We may need to take it further, you'll find out in about 10 days, maybe"
Haiti's political, security and humanitarian crisis is getting worse. I'm interviewing @crisisgroup.org expert Diego Da Rin live on Substack at 2pm ET who will help unpack this crisis and explain a way out of this enduring crisis. What do you want to learn? Join us! --> www.globaldispatches.org
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I learned so much from this conversation!
Dave Keating@davekeating.substack.com · 6mo agoIn tonight's Substack Live with @markleongoldberg.bsky.social on #GlobalDispatches, we discussed how the other EU leaders have ostracised Spain's Pedro Sanchez because he's refused to toe the line on Trump appeasement Has Greenland changed that? Full video: davekeating.substack.com/p/spains-pri...
Norway's Mona Juul, a once legendary diplomat and former UN Amb, has resigned over allegations revealed in the Epstein doc dump. @anjalikdayal.bsky.social and I discuss the fallout around the UN of of diplomats being implicated in the Epstein files --> www.globaldispatches.org/p/the-secret...
come for the discussion of Michelle Bachelet’s singular candidacy (former head of state, former victim of state torture) for UN Secretary General, stay for me debuting my most puritanical opinion
Mark Leon Goldberg@markleongoldberg.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew "To Save Us From Hell" episode dropped! @anjalikdayal.bsky.social discuss the newest entrant in the race for Secretary General AND the what the latest Epstein doc dump has revealed about some high profile diplomats around the UN. www.globaldispatches.org/p/the-secret...
New "To Save Us From Hell" episode dropped! @anjalikdayal.bsky.social discuss the newest entrant in the race for Secretary General AND the what the latest Epstein doc dump has revealed about some high profile diplomats around the UN. www.globaldispatches.org/p/the-secret...
The Secretary General Race Heats Up — And the Epstein Files Hit the UN
Plus, The UN's Kafkaesque Funding Quagmire
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"I have never known Wyden to point to smoke that doesn't emerge from a five-alarm fire." Another useful post from @attackerman.bsky.social --> www.forever-wars.com/ron-wyden-on...
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
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If I had the funding, I would hire some of the recently fired Washington Post reporters to write for Global Dispatches.
It's barely penetrated the western media bubble, but a devastating civil war in South Sudan no longer "looms" -- it's fully erupted. I speak w/ Daniel Akech of @crisisgroup.org who explains the stakes --> www.globaldispatches.org/p/civil-war-...
Civil War Has Returned to South Sudan
Why a fragile peace collapsed—and what comes next
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Carney may not have wanted this divorce, but Trump forced it. The question now is whether anyone else is prepared to follow Canada—and what happens if they do. www.globaldispatches.org/p/mark-carne...
Mark Carney's Jaw-Dropping Davos Speech
Canada is walking away from Washington. Who’s next?
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