Viewpoint by Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA (IDN) — Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.” If you’d rather not think about them, that’s understandable. But such a coping strategy has limited value.
By Richard Haass* – Project Syndicate The US and its allies are more than justified providing Ukraine with arms to defend itself, as well as threatening to impose severe economic sanctions should Russian President Vladimir Putin decide to launch an invasion. But the US is also…
By Patrick Gathara* – Al Jazeera If Roe v Wade is overturned, US Christian right-wing groups will be emboldened to double their efforts to spread abortion restrictions across the globe, especially in Africa The US Supreme Court could be on the verge of one of the greatest…
By Paul Taylor and Oksana Antonenko (*) – POLITICO The crisis in the country is a test of the EU’s ability to stabilize its neighborhood. Europe cannot afford to sit out the growing crisis between Russia and Ukraine and leave it to United States President Joe Biden alone…
BBC World Canada has pledged up to C$40bn ($31bn; £23.6bn) in compensation for indigenous children and families who suffered discrimination while in foster care. In September, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with…
By Andrew Mitrovica* – Al Jazeera Trump will, in all likelihood, be the Republican nominee for president in 2024 with a better than good chance of occupying the White House once again The anxiety over Donald Trump’s possible re-election as president hovers like the prospect of a…
Peter Beaumont* and Nick Dall – The Guardian Concerns over equipment shortages, bottlenecks and hesitancy on continent with 7.5% vaccine coverage With 1bn doses of Covid vaccines expected to arrive in Africa in the coming months, concern has shifted to a global…
Alexander Baunov* – Carnegie Moscow Center For now, Biden is the leader who prevented a war, but that’s not to say that the summit will be followed by a rapid de-escalation: not until Moscow sees new steps being taken by Washington on Ukraine. First and foremost, that means…
By Timothy Garton Ash – The Guardian The new government headed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has a plan – and it is already being put to the test The Lufthansa stewardess on the flight from London to Munich handed me one very small, yellow-wrapped bar of chocolate: the usual ration…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK President Biden’s virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9-10 is part of a campaign to restore the United States’ standing in the world, which took such a beating under President Trump’s erratic foreign policies.
