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
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 2019 (IPS) – A Republican US Senator of a bygone era was once quoted as saying “a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” And, not surprisingly,… Continue Reading
Opinion, By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Oct 24 2019 (IPS) – On October 11, the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee announced that this year´s Peace Prize is awarded to Ethiopia´s prime minister Abiy Ahmed: “For his efforts to achieve peace… Continue Reading
By Jason Burke and Jon Henley * – The Guardian Award recognises efforts for peace, in particular in resolving Eritrea border conflict The prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, who forged a peace deal with Eritrea last year, has won the… Continue Reading
Marc Schulman* – Newsweek On Thursday, the members of the 22nd Knesset took their oaths of office. With eight exceptions, the members of the freshly sworn-in Knesset are identical to those who had served in the 21st Knesset, which was… Continue Reading
By CNA – English language Asian news network DILI: East Timor on Friday (Aug 30) celebrated 20 years since a UN-backed vote ended a bloody, decades-long occupation by Indonesian forces and paved the way for it to become an independent nation.… Continue Reading
By Xander Snyder* – Geopolitical Futures Infighting among the Arab coalition in Yemen is starting to resemble a civil war within a civil war. Disagreements between Saudi Arabia, the coalition leader, and junior partner the United Arab Emirates in Yemen… Continue Reading
By Jeffrey D. Sachs* (CNN) — In every generation we depend on a few people of supreme decency and intelligence to hold the world together. In Jewish tradition, there are at all times 36 tzadikim, righteous people, without whom the… Continue Reading
By Michelle Goldberg* – The New York Times Trump torched America’s foreign policy infrastructure. The results are becoming clear Earlier this week, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan, visited The New York Times editorial board, and I… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2019 (IPS) – When Yassir Arafat was denied a US visa to visit New York to address the United Nations back in 1988, the General Assembly defied the United States by temporarily moving the… Continue Reading
By Paul R. Pillar* – LobeLog** Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been justly criticized for his creation of a Commission on Unalienable Rights, with the mission of redefining human rights. The move appears designed to base the redefinition on religious doctrine… Continue Reading
By Peter Adwok NYABA * It isn’t possible that people who’ve been struggling together against a common enemy for nearly six decades could turn in the end against themselves as if nothing strategic bounded them together. Many people in the… Continue Reading
Christine Ahn – Newsweek Over the weekend, President Donald Trump did what no sitting U.S. sitting president has done: he crossed the demarcation line dividing the two Koreas at Panmunjom and set foot on North Korean soil. Not only that,… Continue Reading
By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service “The culture of peace is universal. It is shared by people and nations Worldwide. Today’s “culture of war” is a US hegemonic project predicated on the creation of conflict and divisions… Continue Reading
By Peter Maurer* STOCKHOLM, May 22 2019 (IPS) – The connection of humanitarian action to broader objectives like peace, development and human rights is understandably complex, but it is also an area in which some fresh thinking is important. The… Continue Reading
By John Nichols* – The Nation He was absolutely right to oppose the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, and he is right to now oppose war with Iran After Bernie Sanders appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday,… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes* On 4 April 2019, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, better known as NATO, marked the 70th anniversary of its existence with a conference attended by the foreign ministers of member nations in Washington DC. This will be… Continue Reading
