Viewpoint by Ramesh Jaura* – IDN-InDepthNews BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) — Like the United Nations, the global community-based Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a beacon of hope to a world shrouded by dark clouds of unprecedented crises. An… Continue Reading
By Sania Farooqui* NEW DELHI, India, Feb 2021 (IPS) – The armed conflict in Yemen which has lasted six years, has killed and injured over thousands of civilians, displaced more than one million people and given rise to cholera outbreaks,… Continue Reading
By Michael von der Schulenburg* – Wall Street International Magazine An open letter to Mark Leonard Europe faces fundamental geopolitical changes caused by a decline in US global power, the rise of China and Asia, a re-assertive Russia, the emergence… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and affiliated communist governments. Things changed a little in the early… Continue Reading
By Nadia Batok* – Wall Street International There are no signs of a halt There are no signs of a halt to the arms race… on the contrary, production of the most modern 5th and 6th generation technological weapons and the most… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the greatest geopolitical catastrophe in history. Though it may not be true of all of history, it is certainly true of modern… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* – Other News The creation of a Palestinian State remains a pipe-dream After the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, The League of Nations mandated that Britain administer Palestine. The London administration was… Continue Reading
by DEVNET JAPAN An interview with Dr. Kazuo Takahashi, Director of DEVNET International about peace-building Q. Dr. Takahashi, you have been active for decades internationally in various capacities at OECD, International foundations, research institutes and universities in such fields as… Continue Reading
Observer Editorial Last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the UAE does nothing to solve the Palestine impasse The principal authors of last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – Donald Trump,… Continue Reading
By Garry Jacobs and Donato Kiniger-Passigli (*) More needed now as it was then The Manifesto called for the governments of the world to abolish nuclear weapons Sixty-five years ago this week, Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell and nine other Nobel… Continue Reading
ECPD GLOBAL CRISES WITH IMPACTS FOR GENERATIONS: IT’S TIME FOR URGENT MULTILATERAL ACTION (1) (Belgrade City Hall, 23 October 2020) VIII ECPD Global Youth Forum YOUTH POWER FOR THE COMMON FUTURE With the main topic ACTING ON THE EARTH CHARTER… Continue Reading
By Saber Azam* GENEVA, Mar 16 2020 (IPS) – The fourth and last presidential election in Afghanistan on 28 September 2019 was yet another setback to the democratic process. Not only did it take months for the Independent Election Commission… Continue Reading
By Sam Hill* – Newsweek On February 29 in Doha, Qatar, the U.S. signed a peace agreement with the Taliban. Each side gets what it wants most. The US gets to bring home the 12,000 US troops stationed in Afghanistan,… Continue Reading
By Staffan de Mistura* I had the privilege of working under the leadership of Javier Perez de Cuellar when he was the Secretary General. He had some unique qualities which were not very visable during a long period because one… Continue Reading
By Farhana Haque Rahman* The world has lost a champion of human rights with the passing of Idriss Jazairy, a former Algerian diplomat and head of multi-lateral institutions who won praise for his work defending the under privileged and his commitment to international law. The Geneva Centre for… Continue Reading
By M.K. Bhadrakumar* – Independent Media Institute The chasm between illusion and reality in politics remains perennial. Wars seldom ended according to the script of peace agreements. The fall of Saigon in April 1975 ending the Vietnam War, with defeated Americans hastily… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 6 2020 (IPS) – The world’s young activists, numbering over 3.8 billion, are on the war path. The rising new socialist movements—which originated with “Black Lives Matter” and “Occupy Wall Street” (one protester’s slogan… Continue Reading
By Samira Sadeque UNITED NATIONS, Jan 2020 (IPS) – While the United States is busy with foreign operations such as killing Qasem Soleimani, a key figure in Middle East Politics, behind the scenes it is reportedly considering a change that… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* – Independent Media Institute Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his lesser-known books—The Backroom Boys (1973). The book is made up of two spectacular essays,… Continue Reading
By John Scales Avery* Loving care for our children We give our children loving care, but it makes no sense to do so unless we do everything in our power to give them a future world in which they can… Continue Reading
