By Dr Atanasio Brito* MAPUTO, Mozambique | 28 June 2026 (IDN) — Mozambique’s Indian Ocean coastline is 1,500 miles (2,470 kilometres)—as long as the combined coastlines of France and Spain. With three out of five Mozambicans living near the water, fish and fishing play a central role in our diets and incomes—fish supplies 50% of […]
From a Respected Hegemon to a Drifting Power
As midterm campaigns accelerate and disillusionment with Trump’s domestic and foreign policies widens, a stark scenario emerges: America faces a perilous inflection point demanding immediate action before democratic erosion becomes irreversibleBy Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 28 June 2ß26 (IDN) — Donald Trump did not invent America’s vulnerabilities, but he has driven them to a breaking point. […]
The International Legal Order is Broken: 2 Key Shifts Needed to Fix it
By Danny Bradlow* JOHANNESBURG, South Africa | 27 June 2026 (IDN) — The international legal order that was created after the Second World War is no longer fit for purpose. Its response to urgent global problems such as climate change, poverty, and pandemics is inadequate. Its key institutions, like the United Nations, are incapable of […]
Recognition Without Redemption: La Strada, Seventy Years On
By Sam Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 26 June 2026 (IDN) — Seventy years after its release, La Strada (1956) remains among the most unsettling achievements in the history of cinema. Its endurance has little to do with nostalgia, neorealist pedigree, or even the magnetism of Giulietta Masina’s performance—though all of these matter. What gives the […]
Until Every Child is in School, No One is Truly Safe
By Mohamud Hure* DOHA, Qatar | 26 June 2026 (IDN) — The morning war arrives, a child learns a different kind of lesson: which road is safe, which silence means run, how much can be carried and what must be left behind. Somewhere in Sudan or eastern Congo this year, a girl folded that knowledge […]
Why Biden’s Debate Disaster Two Years Ago Matters for the Future
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO | 25 June 25 (IDN) — The saying “that’s history” is usually meant to be dismissive, but in politics, the past casts a long shadow over the future. Now, two years after President Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump, the patterns that dominate the Democratic Party are damaging its prospects […]
Germany, Japan and the Return of Military Power (Part III)
Rearmament Without Militarism? By Ramesh Jaura This article was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com/ Editor’s Note: This article is the third and final instalment in a three-part series examining how Germany and Japan—the two former Axis powers that embraced constitutional restraint after World War II—are responding to a rapidly changing global security environment. Part I, From […]
EEPA reports on World Refugee Day highlights protection gaps
BRUSSELS | 25 June 2026 (IDN | EEPA) — The following are the situation reports on World refugee day, Sudan, Ethiopia and The United States military resuming its operations against Al Shabab in Somalia. Migration and refugee situation (per 25 June) Libya’s eastern-based government in Benghazi has issued a decree barring entry to Sudanese, Eritrean, […]
Our Less Violent World
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 24 June 2026 (IDN) — The world over, most of the public opinion is ignorant of just how much violence has declined over the last 3,000 years. Judging by the historical record, the 21st century, thus far, is the least violent and safest Century of all, despite ISIS, despite […]
The Price of Miscalculation
By Alon Ben-Meier* A war launched to reshape the Middle East has instead exposed the limits of force—and the cost of misunderstanding a nation that has spent millennia learning how to endure. NEW YORK | 22 June 2026 (IDN) — The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that was finally unveiled a few days ago only reaffirmed […]