By Thalif Deen* – InDepthNews UNITED NATIONS — The US veto on a Security Council (UNSC) resolution—demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza—was highly predictable. The resolution, which was vetoed November 20, also called for the release of all…
Sachs* America is a country of undoubted vast strengths – technological, economic, and cultural – yet its government is profoundly failing its own citizens and the world. Trump’s victory is very easy to understand. It was a vote against the status quo. Whether…
By Stephen Byren* IDN- InDepthNews Joe Biden has got Donald Trump out of a bind. In his Presidential campaign Trump claimed he could quickly bring an end to the Ukraine war and force a negotiation between Kiev and Moscow.
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J.S. Davies* – Common Dreams In most hot spots around the world, Rubio is likely to make conflicts even hotter, or start new ones.
By Binoy Kampmark – Dissident Voice COP29 was always going to be memorable, for no other reason than the hosting country, Azerbaijan, is a petrostate indifferent to the issue of emissions and scornful of ecological preachers. It has seen its natural gas supply grow by…
By Leslie Vinjamuri* and Max Yoeli* – Foreign Affairs In an Age of Great-Power Competition, Washington Needs the G-20 The United States is failing in the global South. Its popularity and influence have waned, and policies that recent U.S. administrations have designed to…
By Thalif Deen* – Inter Press Service (IPS) UNITED NATIONS – US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20 next year may be another calamity for the United Nations—particularly if the second term turns out to be a re-run of his first presidency (2017-2021)…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* – ZNetwork* Trump’s victory is a desperate and historically understandable gesture by US society to halt the decline of the imperial prosperity it experienced throughout the 20th century and, above all, after the Second World War. It is a desperate…
Robert Hunziker* – CounterPunch There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on. This new trend, over the past year or so, spells “thumbs down” for planet Earth. It’s a disheartening, and fraught with danger, change in…
By Oritro Karim – Inter Press Service (IPS) After 19 months of conflict, the ongoing Sudanese Civil War continues to deteriorate living conditions for millions of Sudanese people. Intensive conflicts between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have…
