Myanmar Now* Both family members and the lawyer of the arrested political commentator say that they have been unable to contact him since he was taken into junta custody on August 15 No one has been able to communicate with columnist Sithu Aung Myint, who has been in junta…
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute On August 15, the Taliban arrived in Kabul. The Taliban’s leadership entered the presidential palace, which Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had vacated when he fled into exile abroad hours before.
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz* – Boston Review Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it. The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a…
Carden* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute A decade ago, John Lamberton Harper, a professor of US Foreign Policy and European Studies at Johns Hopkins in Bologna, Italy published an indispensable history of the first cold war (The Cold War, Oxford University Press…
By Paul Rogers* – The Guardian This week’s victory by the Taliban in Afghanistan now stands as an inspiration to militants around the world Although the anti-war mood deepened in the UK in 2002, as President George W Bush moved to terminate the regime in Iraq, there had already…
By Martin Sommerschuh* There is growing understanding of the vital role Indigenous peoples play in providing benefits to all humanity. UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 2021 (IPS) – The coronavirus pandemic has invited the world to reflect on relationships – between people within and…
Simon Jenkins* – The Guardian Western involvement in the country was a post-imperial fantasy that has led to the current ghastly situation The fall of Kabul was inevitable. It marks the end of a post-imperial western fantasy.
Declaration of the Earth Inhabitants Agora Gino Strada, one of the most important Italian and European figures in the field of civil commitment to the lives of others, has died at the age of 73. A doctor, surgeon, peace-lover and staunch opponent of war and violence, he was the…
By Hameed Hakimi* – The Guardian Even before the western withdrawal and Taliban resurgence, the country was on its knees. A refugee crisis is now inevitable In recent days, a ferocious wave of fighting has enveloped Afghanistan as the Taliban take more and more territory from…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2021 (IPS) – The annual high-level debate during the upcoming 76th General Assembly sessions beginning September 21 —which traditionally attracted over 150 world leaders in a pre-pandemic era– is now clouded in uncertainty.Will it be…
