There was no consensus among the 191 parties to the NPT, the third failure in a row at a conference reviewing the treaty
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Britain’s Rebecca Johnson, founding executive director of the Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, had harsh criticism for both the US and Russia, the two largest nuclear powers, which she said “double down on nuclear threats, blame others and try to undermine or ignore the NPT’s nuclear disarmament commitments and related agreements”.
The 125 member states of the ICC are represented on the ASP, but the ASP bureau is an executive committee made up of 21 members.
MEE has reported that the states on the bureau which voted to disregard the panel of judges were Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Ecuador, Finland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Poland, Slovenia, South Korea, and Switzerland.
Khan’s future as prosecutor may ultimately be decided by a vote of ICC member states.
Human Rights Watch has called on the government of Lebanon to “accede to the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute” and submit a declaration allowing the Court to “investigate and prosecute crimes committed in Lebanon since October 2023,” according to the organisation’s post on X.
A minority of members from the bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are calling for the findings of a judges‘ report, which found no evidence of misconduct against ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, to be ignored, Middle East Eye can reveal.
MEE reported exclusively on Saturday that the court’s chief prosecutor had been cleared of any wrongdoing by a panel of three senior judges appointed by the bureau of the ASP, the ICC’s governing body, to review the findings of a United Nations investigation into complaints of alleged sexual misconduct.
The Democratic leadership in Congress has failed to provide real leadership against a war-crazed Trump administration. Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries have not acted to prevent war on Venezuela or the current war on Iran. They worked to delay a vote on Iran until after the war had started, while failing to clearly oppose it before or after the launch of the war. Schumer and Jeffries have shown that they cannot be trusted to prevent more wars, more threats of wars, or the transfer of another half a trillion dollars a year into the war machine.
It’s time for congressional Democrats to replace Schumer and Jeffries with leaders who are willing and able to challenge the runaway militarism that has dragged our country into launching yet another insanely destructive war.
The form below enables you to quickly send a clear message to the Democrat(s) who represent you in the House and/or Senate.
A coalition of antiwar groups launched a national campaign Wednesday for constituents to urge Democrats in Congress to remove Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Chuck Schumer from their posts as minority leaders.
The coalition includes RootsAction and Peace Action, the nation’s largest grassroots peace network, as well as World BEYOND War and the Progressive Democrats of America – Greater Middle East Alliance.
“Schumer and Jeffries have failed their party and country through wobbly leadership when firmness and clarity are needed in opposing a reckless and costly war,” said Jeff Cohen, cofounder of RootsAction. “The Democratic base sees a weak and confused party leadership as Trump demands billions more to attack Iran. While the party needs strong leaders in Congress, both Schumer and Jeffries have shown that they’re not up to the job.”
IEA members hold emergency stockpiles of over 1.2 billion barrels, with a further 600 million barrels of industry stocks held under government obligation. The coordinated stock release is the sixth in the history of the IEA, which was created in 1974. Previous collective actions were taken in 1991, 2005, 2011, and twice in 2022.
The conflict in the Middle East that began on 28 February 2026 has impeded oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, with export volumes of crude and refined products currently at less than 10% of pre-conflict levels. This is forcing operators across the region to shut in or curtail a substantial amount of production.
An average of 20 million barrels per day of crude oil and oil products transited the Strait of Hormuz in 2025, or around 25% of the world’s seaborne oil trade. Options for oil flows to bypass the Strait of Hormuz are limited.
(February 24, 2026)
Later this week I will be writing a longer post about the glorious summer I spent driving up highway 1 blowing through my covid bux getting this list and a handful of other crazy stories. For now, please check out the mini doc I made with the fine folks over at More Perfect Union and see what you can see in this list of some of the most powerful men in the world which I am publishing below.
Feb 24, 2026
The conspiracies are true — a small group of elites set the agenda for the country.
They‘re billionaires, politicians, judges and more. And they meet at private camp Bohemian Grove.
The membership is secret, but Daniel Boguslaw came to us with a full list of everyone involved.
Der Bohemian Grove, ein legendärer Geheimclub in Kalifornien, steht erneut im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit. Eine angebliche Mitgliederliste mit über 2.000 Namen voller Prominenter aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Popkultur ist aufgetaucht.
Dem unabhängigen Journalisten Daniel Boguslaw ist es offenbar gelungen, die Mitgliederliste des exklusiven Bohemian Grove Clubs zu beschaffen. Die Liste mit rund 2.000 Namen konnte vom Medium San Francisco Standard teilweise bestätigt werden.
Public Office Holders
CORBYN, Jeremy
SULTANA, Zarah
SMITH, Laura
LEWIS, Grace
North West
GORST, Sam
ASPINALL, Dawn
North East
DAVIS, Catherine
HAWKINS, Hannah
Yorkshire & The Humber
MOSLEY, Monique
WILSON, Sophie
London
MULLINGS, Melecia
BEGUM, Noor Jahan
East of England
AHMED, Solma
RUST, Jo
West Midlands
CLARKE, Megan
MOFFAT, Sue
East Midlands
REGAN, Louise
KHAN, Riaz
South East
WIMBORNE-IDRISSI, Naomi
BELLINGHAM, Cassandra
South West
WILLIAMS, Candi
FORBES, Jennifer
Wales
DONNELLAN, Maria
Scotland
CHRISTIE, Niall
Join Jeremy Corbyn and The Many’s candidate for the North East region, Hannah Hawkins in Middlesbrough this Wednesday 11th of February.
An evening of discussion on the crises facing the country and the role Your Party can play in addressing them!
Getting Your Party back on track means campaigning tirelessly on the issues that matter most to people, from the cost-of-living to opposing racism and war.
But it also means empowering Your Party members to organise most effectively and make decisions collectively. For that, we need iron-clad democratic commitments that ensure all members can play their full part — not democratic posturing behind which small sects seek outsized influence.
So here are The Many’s six priorities to build a truly member-led party:
1. Set Up Official Branches — so all members can get organised.
2. Defend OMOV — so all members get to decide, not the sects.
3. Establish Members’ Policy Commissions — so policies are shaped by the people they will affect.
4. Review the Finances and Data — so all members can have trust, nothing off limits.
5. Organise the Liberation Sections — so members from every background are empowered.
6. Report Back Monthly — so the collective leadership is accountable to all members, not just itself.
(February 8, 2026)
This saw members vote by 62% for a collective leadership of YPS, rejecting either a single leader or two co-leaders.
It was also decided by 59% that YPS will move towards being an organisationally independent party albeit still working in alliance with Your Party in England and Wales.
Other decisions included the direct election of YPS national officers, term limits for officer positions, dual membership of other socialist parties is allowed, and affiliation of unions is permitted.
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By 70%, conference voted to stand YPS candidates in the Holyrood elections.
Jeremy Corbyn
Laura Smith
Ayoub Khan
Shockat Adam
Louise Regan
Riaz Khan
Sue Moffat
Fadel Takrouri
Mohammed Azam
Dawn Aspinall
Cath Davis
Hannah Hawkins
Noor Jahan Begum
Tahir Mirza
Jo Rust
Michael Mulquin
Jenn Forbes
Terry Deans
Cassi Bellingham
Chelley Ryan
Monique Mosley
Ismail Uddin
Maria Donnellan
Anwarul Khan
Ian Spencer
Myra Shoko
Graham Jones
Megan Clarke
Riccardo La Torre
Solma Ahmed
Candi Williams
Mark Gage
Grace Lewis
Zarah Sultana
Michael Lavalette
Max Shanly, CEC candidate for South East England
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi
Chris Saltmarsh
Sophie Wilson
Chloe Braddock
Haifa Alkhanshali
Anahita Zardoshti
Mel Mullings
(February 4, 2026)
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s slates are at level pegging in the battle to lead Your Party, with less than a week until the organisation holds internal elections.
The endorsement phase – in which members were able to endorse candidates they wish to see on the ballot for elections to Your Party’s central executive committee – closed on Thursday 29 January. Corbyn’s slate – The Many – are leading in 12 seats, while Grassroots Left, which Sultana is attached to, are leading in 10.
(January 20, 2026)
A key reason is a reality that Sen. Bernie Sanders described soon after Trump’s 2016 win: “Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.”
Democratic Party leaders should be removed from seats of party power or bypassed as relics of bygone eras. Their ongoing refusals to distance from corporate power, rich elites, and militarism have alienated much of the party’s base.
As I wrote in my free new book The Blue Road to Trump Hell, “The Democratic Party enabled Donald Trump to become president twice because of repetition compulsions that still plague the top echelons of the party.” To eject Republicans from power – and to advance a strong progressive agenda – true leadership must come from grassroots mobilization.
In Your Party, we have to do things differently. That’s why The Many is announcing the Socialist Leadership Programme: If we are elected to Your Party’s Central Executive Committee, we will establish this programme to identify, educate and train a new generation of working-class socialist leaders.
These are leaders who will represent the full breath of our coalition: Old and young, from all faiths and none, and from every corner of Britain. Leaders built up not from Westminster and the professional political class, but from community campaigns, workplace struggles, and social movements. Leaders who won’t just posture, but will build real power.
We need an alternative – and this requires more than just a different policy position. It requires a new kind of politics: one that harnesses the unifying power of solidarity to defeat the divisive tactic of scapegoating. One that unites working class people in all their diversity and empowers communities to wage campaigns where they live and work. One that stops treating politics as something that is done to people – and starts treating politics as something that is done by people.
This imperative led to the birth of Your Party. The surge of community-based victories in recent years – from the remarkable success of independent candidates in the 2024 general election, to the blossoming of local community independent groups in councils all over the country – demonstrated a demand for an alternative to the failed establishment politics.
Procedures for Election Published Tues 23 Dec
Open Nominations Mon 5 Jan
Deadline for receipt of Nomination Paper Fri 16 Jan
Endorsement Period Opens Weds 21 Jan
Endorsement Period Closes Thurs 29 Jan
Members’ Hustings From Wed 4 Feb
Deadline for Members to join and receive a Vote Thurs 5 Feb – 5pm
Issue of online ballot papers Mon 9 Feb
Vote closes Mon 23 February – 5pm
Announcement of Results Thursday 26 February 2026
New Leadership Team Takes Office Friday 27 February 2026
JEREMY CORBYN will be elected parliamentary leader for Your Party if his slate wins the central executive committee election next month, his allies say.
If the list of candidates headed by the former Labour Party leader, called The Many, clinch the nomination on February 26, Zarah Sultana’s “parliamentary convener” model would not see the light of day.
The Central Executive Committee (CEC) will be the team elected by members to lead and run Your Party day-to-day — overseeing staff and resources, guiding our strategy, and putting decisions from the founding conference into action. Following members’ decision at our founding conference, it will also act as the collective leadership of Your Party, with the Chair, Vice Chair, and Spokesperson in particular serving as the public political leadership.
Our first CEC elections begin in January 2026 and will be open to all verified members, using a one-member-one-vote system with both digital and postal options. Once voting concludes in February 2026, the newly elected CEC will take on the responsibility of steering the party forward. The full timetable is below and the rules for the election here.
During the inaugural conference being held in Liverpool this weekend, all members were asked to vote on what to call the new party, which was temporarily named ‘Your Party‘ earlier this year.
Members voting online have now chosen to keep the ‘Your Party’ name permanently, with 37.06 per cent voting in favour on a 30 per cent turnout. Almost 17,000 members voted on the name.
A Your Party spokesperson said: „This vote shows that we really are doing politics differently: from the bottom-up, not the top-down.
„In Westminster, we have a professional political class increasingly disconnected from ordinary people, serving corporations and billionaires instead of the communities they are supposed to represent.
„With a truly member-led party, we will offer something different: democratic, grassroots, accountable.“
The Council is composed of 15 Members:
Five permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and ten non-permanent members elected for two-year terms by the General Assembly (with end of term year):
– Algeria (2025)
– Denmark (2026)
– Greece (2026)
– Guyana (2025)
– Pakistan (2026)
– Panama (2026)
– Republic of Korea (2025)
– Sierra Leone (2025)
– Slovenia (2025)
– Somalia (2026)
Current members
Name of Member Nationality Term expires (30 June)
Mr. Juan Pablo ALBAN ALENCASTRO (Rapporteur) Ecuador 2029
Mr. Yakouma Jean de Dieu BAMBARA Burkina Faso 2029
Ms. Marija DEFINIS Croatia 2029
Mr. Matar DIOP (Vice Chair) Senegal 2027
Mr. Olivier de FROUVILLE (Chair) France 2027
Mr. Fidelis KANYONGOLO Malawi 2027
Ms. Barbara LOCHBIHLER Germany 2027
Mr. Elías Ricardo SOLÍS GONZÁLEZ Panama 2029
Mr. Paulo de TARSO VANNUCHI Brazil 2029
Ms. Carmen Rosa VILLA QUINTANA