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URGENT: Atlas' Representative Illegally Arrested by Israel on the Global Sumud Flotilla
October 02, 2025
Dear all, We need your help. Our fellow Atlas member and Community Lead Yassine has been arrested by Israeli forces while sailing on the Global Sumud Flotilla. The Flotilla is a peaceful mission of solidarity with Gaza, sailing by sea in response to the genocide waged by...
Read MoreOn the Weaponization of Aid in Gaza
July 28, 2025
Concerns over Israeli weaponization of aid shipments in its genocidal campaign in Gaza are not a new phenomenon. In May the spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke, made this very point. Earlier this month Amnesty...
Read MoreThe Link Between Conquest and Prosperity Must Be Severed
July 23, 2025
According to Al Jazeera, the finance ministers of the G20 countries reached a consensus on Friday, July 18th regarding the importance of central bank independence from their national governments. This consensus comes in the wake of United States president Donald Trump’s open criticism of...
Read MoreOn the AI for Good Summit
July 18, 2025
July 8th-11th marked the 2025 AI for Good Global Summit, a United Nations (UN) organized event in Geneva, Switzerland. The event was hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in collaboration with several UN agencies. While Atlas applauds international attention to the usage and...
Read MoreOn the 2025 BRICS Summit
July 11, 2025
July 6th-7th marked the summit of the BRICS, a grouping of eleven nations largely from the Global South. These include the founding members of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, along with the recently added Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Indonesia, and the United Arab...
Read MoreWhy I Was in Bonn (and Who Atlas Is)
June 24, 2025
From June 16 to 20, 2025, I took part in the SB62 in Bonn, Germany — one of the intermediary negotiation sessions under the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It’s one of the key moments leading up to COP30, which...
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