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Photo: The "Baker" explosion, part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear weapon test by the United States military at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, on 25 July 1946. Credit: United States Department of Defense (either the U.S. Army or the U.S. Navy), Library of Congress.

From Crossroads to Godzilla: The Cinematic Legacies of The First Postwar Nuclear Tests

Viewpoint by Timothy Noël Peacock

Dr Timothy Noël Peacock FRHistS is a Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, founder/co-director of the Arts interdisciplinary Games and Gaming Research Lab (GGLab), and a Visiting Fellow at the British Library Eccles Centre. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

GLASGOW (IDN) — As I sat in a darkened cinema in 1998, mesmerised and unnerved by the opening nuclear bomb explosions that framed the beginning of Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla, it felt like I was watching the most expensive special effect in history.

: Opinion Editor; ARMAMENTS; Nuclear Weapons; 24 July 2021

Photo: Since no electoral process is perfect, advanced technologies are only introduced to keep malpractice to a bare minimum. Source: Techpoint Africa.

Nigeria: In Quest of An Electoral Law That Works for Voters

Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene

The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria.

ABUJA (IDN) — Kicking the can down the road is government art. Once politicians manoeuvre themselves into office, they govern by repeating the promises they made and hope that problems would go away. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way.

For six years we’ve been trying to find an electoral law that works for voters. It doesn’t appear that we’re nearer a solution today than when we first started.

: Africa & ME Editor; OPINION; 24 July 2021

Photo: Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) on the north flank of Mauna Loa Volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii. The observatory is a premier atmospheric research facility that has been continuously monitoring and collecting data related to atmospheric change since the 1950's. Source: Global Monitoring Laboratory.

Transformational Change Alone Can Halt Impending Climate Catastrophe

Viewpoint by John Scales Avery*

COPENHAGEN (IDN) — Measurements of the carbon dioxide content of the earth's atmosphere as a function of time have been made ever since 1958 at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. The resulting graph is called the “Keeling Curve”, in honor of Charles David Keeling, who started the monitoring and continued it until his death in 2005.

: Opinion Editor; OPINION; 23 July 2021

Honduras Granted USD20 Million OPEC Fund Loan to Help Improve Climate Resilience of Rural Communities

By Reinhard Jacobsen

VIENNA (IDN) — The OPEC Fund for International Development has signed a US$20 million loan agreement with Honduras to co-finance the 'Northeastern Small Producers' Economic and Social Inclusion Project—PROINORTE'. The importance of the project lies in the fact that the Central American nation's economy is primarily agricultural, making it especially vulnerable to natural disasters such as Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

: Reinhard Jacobsen; SUSTAINABILITY; Poverty; 23 July 2021

Photo: Ambassador Chen Xu. UN human rights council passes China's resolution calling for people-centered development for human rights. Source: Global Times.

China Counters Western 'Hypocrisy' At UNHRC With Development Rights Push

By Kalinga Seneviratne

SYDNEY | GENEVA (IDN) — China came out with its guns blazing at the recently concluded 47th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) pointing out western hypocrisy on human rights, by particularly targeting Canada and Australia. China was supported on this counterattack by over 60 developing country members of the UN body.

: Kalinga Seneviratne; THE WORLD; Asia-Pacific; 22 July 2021

Photo: The joint drills of the Chinese, Russian and South African Navy demonstrate the countries' willingness to cooperate to ensure stability, according to spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang. © Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser.

Russia and China: Geopolitical Rivals and Competitors in Africa

Interview by Kester Kenn Klomegah*

MOSCOW (IDN) — The growth of neo-colonial tendencies, the current geopolitical developments and the scramble for its resources by external countries in Africa: these are some of the issues researcher and business analyst Lipton Matthews recently discussed with Kester Kenn Klomegah for InDepthNews (IDN). Matthews is associated with Merion West, The Federalist, American Thinker, Intellectual Takeout, Mises Institute, and Imaginative Conservative.

: Kester Kenn Klomegah; THE WORLD; Africa; 22 July 2021

Photo: Norman Levy, who died in Cape Town at the age of 91. Credit: Facebook.

Anti-Apartheid Activist Who Survived Torture Dies in South Africa

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK (IDN) — Trade unionist, anti-apartheid activist and political organizer Norman Levy, survivor of torture and imprisonment in South Africa before spending two decades of exile in Britain, has died in Cape Town, according to relatives. He was 91.

He became an activist in his teens and joined the Young Communist League before becoming a member of the Communist Party of South Africa.

: Global Information Network; THE WORLD; Africa; 21 July 2021

Image: Conflicts in Africa by ethnic region. Source: Good Governance Africa

Wanted An International Court of Ethnic Disputes

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*

LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Just before he died at the end of the twentieth century, the great philosopher Isaiah Berlin said, "It was the worst century that Europe ever had. Worse, I suspect, even than the days of the Huns. And why? Because in our modern age nationalism is not resurgent; it never died. Neither did racism. They are the most powerful movements in the world today cutting across many social systems”.

: Jonathan Power; OPINION; 20 July 2021

Photo (Left to Right): Bandula Vithanarachchi of TTV Media Hub and Manish Uprety F.R.A.S. of ALCAP

ALCAP Ventures into Sri Lanka for Joint Movie Production

By Niba Mirza*

COLOMBO (IDN) — Sri Lanka which from time immemorial is linked to South America through the Indian Ocean is now also connected through Joint Movie/ Documentary co-production and audiovisual exchange.

The Asociación Latinoamericana de Comunicación Audiovisual Parlamentaria, ALCAP, or the Latin American Parliamentary Association of Audiovisual Communication, signed a MOU with TTV Media Hub of Sri Lanka so that bridges between Sri Lanka and South America can be diversified and strengthened via enhanced Audiovisual exchange and Joint Movie Production.

: Asia Editor; SUSTAINABILITY; Quality Education; 20 July 2021

Protests and Looting in South Africa on International Nelson Mandela Day

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network

NEW YORK (IDN) — “It is easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.” Those were the prophetic words of Nelson Mandela, for whom the United Nations designated July 18 as Nelson Mandela International Day to remember the life and legacy of a legendary global advocate for dignity, equality, justice and human rights.