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My comment to @providetriggersforevolutio3748 at 4:30 AM on Rule of Law : Awesome comment! I totally agree with you that SG Guterres dropped the ball in this speech by not directly addressing Trump's new Board of Peace. SG Guterres, who has nothing to lose in the final year of his term, sounds like a comfortable careerist, not a competitive Trump counterweight. I don't see how Trump's Board of Peace can be valid under international law or US law. It's an abuse of UN Security Council resolution 2803 that should trigger a Security Council debate, as well as a request from the UN General Assembly for an ICJ advisory opinion. But then, we probably should have had a UN Security Council meeting over Trump's co-occurring breach of the peace in relation to Denmark and Greenland. SG Guterres should be saying as much directly to the Council. He should also be chiding it for not referring Iran to the ICC. Africa is already on the UN Security Council! My question is why were DR...

11:26 PM. My comment on The Life of a UN Security Council Resolution : Thanks for the interesting video, UN Secretariat. Today, 25 January 2026, is the 80th Anniversary of the 1st UN Security Council Resolution. It is also my 54th birthday. As we look at Security Council enlargement to 25 members, I believe we should consider modifying the P5 category to an N5+4 category, or N9, bringing on board India, Israel, North Korea and Pakistan. Cf.  Resolution 1 (1946) . End 11:59 PM. Addendum The first meeting of the UN Security Council was held at Church House, Westminster, on Thursday, 17 January 1946, starting at 3:10 PM.  The second meeting of the UN Security Council was held in the same location on Friday, 25 January 1946, starting at 3:00 PM. Church House is the home of the headquarters of the Church of England. The UN Security Council meetings were held in the Hoare Memorial Hall. Cf.  First Session of the United Nations Security Council | UN Photo . At 12:34 AM on Monday...

7:59 AM Wednesday. The purpose of this blog entry is to pick up and address several of my ongoing conversations simultaneously. For some of you, I am picking up on our most recent email, telephone call, text message, videoconference, or face-to-face conversation. For others, my most recent communication was my 15 January 2026 blog post titled United Nations: Response to PGA Baerbock . Then, for a third group, my most recent communication was my YouTube comment yesterday on The One State Fantasy  by Haviv Rettig Gur. It occurs to me that I can classify you all into one of three contact categories. First, with respect to my clinical team, I am feeling tremendous gratitude for my mom's cancer-free test results and ongoing good recovery from her mastectomy. We are doing well here at the house together, but we did get a boiler warning signal from a service technician during a cold snap that is a cause of some anxiety. There may come a time when my mom and I are not able to take care of ...

My comment at 8:21 PM on Multilateral System is Under Heavy Attack : American man here. Very frustrated with President Trump for undermining the UN budget and withdrawing from key international organizations. Heartfelt appreciation to PGA Baerbock for her Green diplomatic genius and "glass half full" optimism. This said, maybe it's time for the PGA and SG to stop beating around the bush so much. If Trump's denial of climate change is an existential threat to humanity, call him out by name, reference the ICJ advisory opinion, and explain what the future "Nuremberg" reparations consequences are likely to be for Americans if they don't correct course. We need a UN with more teeth and more fighting spirit. On the other hand, UNRWA is a legal embarrassment and a moral mess. There are better ways to press for a 2-state solution than criticizing Israel over its legitimate frustrations with UNRWA. Maybe it would be easier to get a settlement freeze in the West B...

My comment at 12:32 PM on NATO's Top Commander Warns Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are Aligned Against the West : The SC P5 need to work together on ecological resilience, green growth and UN Charter reform. Trump is a catalytic foil (green swan hidden as black swan). NATO needs to reassure Russia and China that Ukraine, Taiwan, North Korea and Palestine are solvable win-wins, but Maduro and Khamenei regimes are red lines (Monroe Doctrine and Begin Doctrine). I don't know what will happen to the government in Kyiv if the peace deal is 50/50 but I trust it will be fair to the hero Zelensky and the brave resistance as well as the necessary opposition if Ukraine is to have more of an opposition than Russia at the EU transition start. NATO membership for annexation would probably not be the end of the world for either side, but unmanaged global collapse is in no great power's interest. No NATO in Georgia and maybe withdrawal of Turkey and US down the road if P5 agree?

A comment from @alexanderross1979 on Andrei Tsygankov | Canceling Russia : The US neocons, the CIA, the oligarchs and Globalists in America will only ever have one aim for Russia and that is to weaken Russia, impoverish it and eventually break it up and plunder its natural resources. This is what the American hawks will always work toward and they always have the ascendancy in the US regardless of who is president and regardless of any US dialogue with Russia. Russia needs to remember this always and act accordingly. Surely Russia has learned by now never to trust the USA ever again. My response at 12:12 PM:  American here. I think Trump wants Khamenei out and a new Iranian Constitution, but I think he genuinely wants Putin to succeed (or at least doesn't need to see him go) and doesn't have anything against the Russian Constitution. He probably blames Biden more than Putin for the US-Russia miscalculations of 2021-2022. 

My comment at 2:02 AM on Tehran signals mass crackdown : My advice for Trump to Pezeshkian: stop the crackdown, send Ayatollah Khamenei to Moscow for health reasons and restart the internet and telephones. Talks are better than bunker busters or special operations. Let's get a transition program going toward a free and fair referendum on a new Iranian Constitution. It's up to the people when their passions are cooled if they want a secular state or a civil Islamic Republic with a lion on the flag. Either way let's aim to lift the UN & US sanctions by putting the IAEA back in ASAP and agreeing to a freeze on Iranian ballistic missile production.

Sunday 1:10 AM. My comment at 1:04 AM on  Prophecy Watch: The "Birthing" of Messiah and The Fall of Iran : Toda Raba, Rabbi. In addition to Torah portion Shemot, during which we read about the birth of Moses and the Theophany at the Burning Bush, we are also leaving behind the week of Epiphany in the Western tradition. There was a Venus cazimi on January 6 and a Mars cazimi on January 9, 2026, in an opposition to Jupiter. Regarding the reincarnation of the Jewish "star" of David, I want to suggest that the flag of the modern state of Israel is part and parcel of the Second Coming, and that this flag is a sign for modern astrologers with "ears to hear and eyes to see" just as much as the "star" of Bethlehem was a sign for the Persian magi back in the time of Herod.  A primary question for us at this juncture is whether the Second Coming of Yeshua will be embodied in one divine human individual alone, or whether it will be a gradual Israeli and wor...

My comment at 1:37 PM on a  Post from Al Jazeera English : @Princessdark-l8o That's like three things sistah. 1) Let's say the facts prove that Israel tried to buy peace with Hamas and Fatah, including with work permits. How does that make Israel responsible for Hamas or Fatah terrorism? 2) Most legal scholars agree that a 2-state solution is the best way to proceed because the Jews have a right to a state in their ancestral homeland according to the ICJ and the UN Security Council. And let's not forget that the Jews WITHDREW from Gaza in 2005 in pursuit of peace. 3) Perhaps it's your own research that has been inadequate. All of this said, it is important to have empathy for civilians and do everything we can to alleviate innocent Gazan suffering as quickly and sustainably as possible.