BY MELVIN GOODMAN* – The CounterPunch website “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” – Thucydides, 5th Century BC. For the past two decades, the International Criminal Court has concentrated on the war crimes and criminals who have operated…
Hanna Davis* – Open Democracy Refugees from Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia among those unable to access help In a one-room apartment in Jordan’s capital, Amman, Ali sits next to his mother-in-law. She’s doing her best to lull the cries of his one-year-old child, who has been sick for…
By Nesrine Malik* – The Guardian The bloody conflict in my birth country has its roots in a power struggle that began with the Darfur genocide 20 years ago The speed with which Sudan unravelled was the first indication that it had all been building up for a long time. The…
By Antonio Graceffo* – Modern Diplomacy The Civil war in Myanmar is intensifying, while hope of a democratic election is evaporating. Upon the two year anniversary of Burma’s military coup, on February 1, the opposition, joined by a coalition of 18 unions and the…
Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a regular contributor to Othernews. He has been the subject of serious allegations, which have led him to distance himself rom several academics and civil society organizations.
By Fiona Edwards* – Globetrotter Instead, an independent foreign policy is desperately needed—and gaining support. Recently, the United States has been followed by a number of European countries in supporting a cold war policy toward Russia and China.
By Cheena Kapoor * – Devex New Delhi, India — On a chilly November night last year, Poonam Devi and three other women from her village were surgically sterilized at a health center near their village, Basoli, in India’s Sonbhadra district. A typical…
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J. Davies* – CODEPINK The U.S. corporate media’s first response to the leaking of secret documents about the war in Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare “nothing to see here,” and cover it as a depoliticized crime story about a…
By Viyah Prashad* – Globetrotter Tokyo now accepts that countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America no longer want to submit to the will of the Western states In mid-April, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs released its Diplomatic Bluebook 2023, its…
By Hall Gardner* – MEER Toward a global peace initiative Only concerted US, EU, ASEAN and UN multilateral diplomacy will prevent the real possibility of war between the United States and China. In April 2023, Beijing engaged in demonstrations of military force in strong…
