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
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza* “… Everything is still possible… but who if not all of us can make it become true?”. Miquel Martí i Pol Having a deep knowledge of potentially irreversible processes, I’ve pointed out a long time ago… Continue Reading
By Baher Kamal* – Human Wrongs Watch Indebted, exploited, hunt down, shamed at Home… The harsh reality of Southeast Asia’s migrants Sorry for coming back to this issue, but its immense human dimension justifies this new attempt to report on… Continue Reading
By Asoka Bandarage* Sri Lanka has been convulsed since the nine coordinated suicide bomb attacks against Christian churches and five star hotels on Easter Sunday. More than 250 people lost their lives and many others were injured on that fateful… Continue Reading
By Bob Dreyfuss* – The Nation The announcement that the Pentagon is sending a strike force to the Middle East caps a yearlong campaign of threats and intimidation Is it Iraq all over again? Is President Donald Trump, egged on… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures Iran’s influence has spread across the Middle East, and the U.S. is pushing back. The United States has announced that it is deploying a carrier battle group and a bomber group to the Middle… Continue Reading
By Matt Kwong* – CBC News Threat to intervene militarily could turn into another protracted conflict, experts warn The Vietnam War in 1965. The War in Afghanistan in 2001. The Invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Invasion of Venezuela in… Continue Reading
Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Last Saturday, the final day of the Jewish holiday of Passover, 19-year-old white supremacist John T. Earnest allegedly walked into the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California, raised his AR-style assault rifle and began shooting.… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands in horror and comment along the lines that it is ‘in our genes’, ‘nothing can be done about it’ or other… Continue Reading
