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1. Eric Walberg

(Contacts / Writers)

... German, Spanish and Arabic and are accessible at his website ericwalberg.com. Walberg is author of Postmodern Imperialism Geopolitics and the Great Games (2011). A version of this article appeared at EricWalberg.com. ...

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2. Time to Dispense with the Rhetoric of Decolonisation

(OPINION)

... my native language of Urdu. I couldn’t find one. In many other languages, from Arabic to Spanish, only a loanword exists. It’s just one example of how the discussion on decolonisation rarely centres the ...

Created on 18 January 2021

3. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 2

(OPINION)

... Spanish villages and towns. Did the realisation that viruses know no borders help to make the new treaty for relations between Gibraltar and Spain? The answer is not really: it is trade. Yet, it does not ...

Created on 13 January 2021

4. There Is A Silver Lining in The Cloud of Brexit

(OPINION)

... Continued civil and international war across the centuries, has pitted French against Germans, British against the French, Spanish and Germans, Russians against French and Germans, Czechs against Poles, ...

Created on 05 January 2021

5. Morocco's Covert Ties to Israel Belie ‘Historic Breakthrough’ Narrativ

(Africa)

... with the unresolved matter of Western Sahara – a desert region under Spanish colonial rule from 1884 until 1975. He was determined to take the territory despite global opposition to the move and in November ...

Created on 14 December 2020

6. COVID-19 and Lessons from Traditional Chinese Medicine

(COVID-19)

... pandemic engulfed the world in 1918. The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by H1N1 influenza – a virus. In all fairness, this influenza ...

Created on 22 November 2020

7. The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them

(OPINION)

... religion (very much like the Spanish conquest did in Latin America).  The war of independence from England reinforced the moral value of their action: freedom from tyranny, And, with the Industrial Revolution, ...

Created on 09 November 2020

8. Precarious Multilateralism Seizes CTBTO Nuclear-Test-Ban Organization

(Nuclear Weapons)

... art campaign launched in 2019 by CTBTO and the Spanish NGO Paz y Cooperación. The treaty, which has not entered into force, bans nuclear explosions by everyone everywhere. Credit: CTBTO. IDN is Flagship ...

Created on 25 October 2020

9. Colonial Past Rooted Police System Terrorizes the Poor and Minorities

(OPINION)

... Was Developed in Concert with the U.S. Empire. Consider one of the founding fathers of American policing, August Vollmer. A U.S. Marine who invaded the Philippines in the Spanish-American War in 1898, ...

Created on 21 October 2020

10. Mexico Has a UFO and It's Not an Unidentified Flying Objec

(Latin America & the Caribbean)

... were signed with the National Hydrocarbons Commission (known by its Spanish acronym as CNH) and not with Pemex, so Pemex financial condition is not a matter of concern with these contracts, except for ...

Created on 11 October 2020

11. Post-COVID-19 Sustainable Cities: What Can Universities Do?

(OPINION)

... from these negative effects. Madrid leads Spanish regions in the ranking of per capita income. Nevertheless, it also registers very high levels of inequality and large economic gaps between its districts, ...

Created on 08 October 2020

12. El Sistema Brings Forth Genius in Every Child

(OPINION)

... They are Indian children from the Amazon who don’t even speak Spanish”. So El Sistema entered the world. The press thought that Machado was crazy. More than that, what was the new Christian Democrat ...

Created on 25 August 2020

13. Spreading the Seeds of Multiculturalism: A Moroccan Perspective

(Africa)

... of multiculturalism—a word borrowed from the Spanish—the idea of “Convivencia” or coexistence. Originally a reference to the relative harmony among Christians, Muslims, and Jews living in Muslim Iberia ...

Created on 12 August 2020

14. ‘We Will Coup Whoever We Want’: Elon Musk and the Overthrow of Democracy in Bolivia

(OPINION)

... we can arrange its receipt in Miami, FL. and transport them from there as quickly as possible.” No such ventilators came. Instead, the government bought ventilators from a Spanish supplier for $27,000 ...

Created on 01 August 2020

15. The Forgotten Victims of COVID-19 Amid Migration Crisis

(Reduced Inequalities)

... Italy. Migration in a Moroccan Context Traditionally an emigration country, Morocco has quickly become the safer migration route into Europe, with land access to the border in the Spanish enclaves ...

Created on 14 July 2020

16. Could Coronavirus Be Burning Out After 20 Percent of a Population Is Infected?

(OPINION)

... that blood types may play a role, with blood type A raising risk. This was recently confirmed in studies of Spanish and Italian patients, which also discovered a new genetic risk marker termed “3p21.31”. ...

Created on 08 July 2020

17. Out of the Belly of Hell: COVID-19 and the Humanisation of Globalisation – Part 3: The Stepping Stones

(OPINION)

... of Finland to sign the Helsinki Accords. Thirty five heads of state, including the leaders of both East and West Germany – but not Spanish dictator Franco, who had taken sick and would die later that year ...

Created on 09 June 2020

18. COVID-19: Should Economy Have Priority Over Migrant Workers' Health?

(OPINION)

... Guardian that the situation is the result of years of neglect of workers. “They got visited by the Spanish army on the 18th of March and told to stay put, even though in some places running water is several ...

Created on 13 May 2020

19. Beware of Weaponizing COVID-19

(OPINION)

... half of the population across the continent. Then comes the Spanish Flu (H1N1) in 1918 across the continents with many nations embroiled in World War I. The origins of the Bubonic Plague in 1341 is suspected ...

Created on 10 May 2020

20. After the Pandemic, Will We Return to Business as Usual?

(OPINION)

... outbreak, which is expected to be much more lethal for people and for the economy, as happened with the Spanish flu a century ago. Among the certainties is the knowledge that this virus is here to stay. ...

Created on 08 May 2020

21. Who Should Be in Charge: Doctors or Politicians?

(OPINION)

... capable of "achieving results" irrespective of ideological biases and parliamentary squabbles. The Spanish anti-establishment movement Podemos, which is part of the current coalition government, is called ...

Created on 25 April 2020

22. Coronavirus Puts Class Dimension of Mobility into Sharp Focus

(OPINION)

... down Lombardy was leaked, thousands headed to their extended families in the south. In Spain, a newspaper reported 4 km of traffic jams on motorways heading out of Madrid. The Spanish flight was largely ...

Created on 15 April 2020

23. COVID-19: A Global Buddhist Network Contributing to Overcoming the Pandemic

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Soka Gakkai President Minoru Harada Following is the text of a press release conveying President Harada's Message in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. [Read in Spanish, Traditional Chinese, ...

Created on 11 April 2020

24. There's Nothing So Political as a Pandemic – Part

(OPINION)

... often come from disaster. The Spanish flu of 1918-19 was interwoven with the year of revolutions which overthrew the German empire, ended World War One and shook the Western world. (Some) women's suffrage ...

Created on 01 April 2020

25. Protect Health Workers Serving Like Soldiers At the Frontlines Against COVID-19

(OPINION)

... the Spanish flu pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people, more than the combined total casualties of World Wars I and II. Our understanding of disease transmission and treatments is far ahead of ...

Created on 29 March 2020

26. Relentless Spread of Coronavirus Obliges Postponing the 2020 NPT Review to 2021

(UN INSIDER)

... have the worst pandemic in human history, even exceeding the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 that killed 50 million people. Under the above scenario, in the United States there could be up to 130 to 230 million ...

Created on 02 March 2020

27. Why the Peace Movement Must Be Intersectional

(OPINION)

... routes. In the Spanish Civil War (among many other conflicts), pacifists assisted those displaced by the conflict by setting up refugee camps and support. In the Second World War, many pacifists worked ...

Created on 16 February 2020

28. U.S. Abrogation of Iran Deal Leaves a Puzzling Legacy

(Nuclear Weapons)

... benefits if it returns to full compliance,” he wrote in an article in the Project Syndicate published on February 8. Borrell, a Spanish Socialist, was notified in January by Paris, London and Berlin ...

Created on 14 February 2020

29. Towards a Constitutional Crisis: Scotland and Britain After the General Election

(OPINION)

... would not, unlike the Spanish one, send the police in to stop people voting but the unionist side could simply boycott and ignore the whole thing. The Scottish Parliament could pass a referendum bill ...

Created on 09 February 2020

30. Sri Lanka Committed to Non-Proliferation and Disarmament

(Asia-Pacific)

... only in official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The NPT and CTBT texts are included in two publications. The third publication relates to the ...

Created on 31 January 2020

31. A Renowned Russian University Celebrates 60th Anniversary

(Russia)

... opportunities Today, the training of specialists at the university is carried out according to 472 programs of various levels of education, including 74 programs in foreign languages (English and Spanish) ...

Created on 29 January 2020

32. Sino-EU Duo Is Crucial to Driving the Global Climate Ambition

(Climate Action)

... play But on climate diplomacy the EU has a more active role to play. The success of COP26 in Glasgow hangs by a thin thread. The Spanish government, to its great credit, rescued COP25 in December after ...

Created on 24 January 2020

33. Fear, Greed and Hate as We Enter the 2020s

(OPINION)

... social class, sexual identity, and so on. Tamayo observes that this is becoming a new international movement, which is now coming to Europe, as the recent Spanish elections show. Vox, the extreme right-wing ...

Created on 03 January 2020

34. Youth Call for Human Rights to Be at The Core of Climate Talks

(Climate Action)

... said Sara Cognuck, 24, who leads Costa Rica’s youth environmental movement. Cognuck participated in several side events and panels at the COP25 venue in the Spanish capital, joined by high level authorities. ...

Created on 12 December 2019

35. Western Sahara Rights Activist Awarded Major Peace Prize

(Africa)

... Haidar was born in El-Ayoun in July 1967 when Western Sahara was under Spanish colonial rule. Only two years earlier, the UN General Assembly adopted its first resolution on Western Sahara requesting Spain ...

Created on 03 December 2019

36. The EU Pulled the Rug from Under the Kurds

(OPINION)

... [IDN-InDepthNews – 15 October 2019] Photo: German, French, and Spanish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria call for people to join the Kurdish-Turkish conflict in Turkey. ...

Created on 15 October 2019

37. Female Football A Gender Equalizer in Kyrgyzstan

(Central Asia)

... Baktygul and Aydana Otorbaeva are the two popular female football players who have been accepted and playing in the Kazakh and Spanish professional football clubs. In January 2019 Aydana Otorbaeva successfully ...

Created on 15 September 2019

38. Non-violence Is the Need of the Hour in Hong Kong

(OPINION)

... by many of the world’s Communist Parties, including the important Italian, British and Spanish ones. There was disillusionment among most of Europe’s left-inclined intellectuals. Not that everybody in ...

Created on 03 September 2019

39. Need for Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty's Entry into Force Reiterate

(Nuclear Weapons)

... exhibition in Vienna included winning artworks from a children’s art campaign launched last year by CTBTO and the Spanish NGO Paz y Cooperación. Also marking August 29, a group of high-level figures ...

Created on 30 August 2019

40. World Parliamentarians Look Forward to Fruitful Cooperation

(Russia)

... Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2016 to 2017 and a member of the Spanish Senate, informed that he had worked hard to ensure the return of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly ...

Created on 05 July 2019

41. NPT Review Conference Will Benefit from CTBT's Entry into Forc

(CTBTO)

... run in collaboration with the Spanish NGO Paz y Cooperaciόn. CTBTO Executive Secretary Zerbo said: "As we look at the world today, I understand very well the temptation to give in to cynicism where nuclear ...

Created on 24 June 2019

42. Are the Japanese Really Different? Maybe

(Asia-Pacific)

... and Shintoism is quite evident. Kanazawa was a stronghold of the Samurai.  Japan used to produce large quantities of gold and silver. This was a reason for the Portuguese and the Spanish to eye Japan ...

Created on 17 May 2019

43. Russia Targets Foreign Students to Boost Image Abroad

(Quality Education)

... French, Spanish and Arabic, and it has been published on the website. The main purpose of the website, study in Russia, is to attract foreign students to study at Russian Universities. In an IDN interview, ...

Created on 10 May 2019

44. Writing From A Sinking Vessel

(OPINION)

... decisions. If we manage to keep the ship afloat, with all passengers, humanity will have the opportunity to usher in a new era. [IDN-InDepthNews – 08 February 2019] * Federico Mayor Zaragoza is a Spanish ...

Created on 08 February 2019

45. Of Cockroaches and Humans

(OPINION)

... of whom one-third are foreigners and one in five is Moroccan. These work in the nurseries surrounding the town, in precarious conditions and exploited. Unemployment is lower than the Spanish average. The ...

Created on 17 December 2018

46. Sri Lanka's Heroic Freedom Struggles of 1818 and 1848 – Part

(History)

... to note that in a supreme act of arrogance, the Portuguese and the Spanish had even divided up the newly discovered lands of the world to which their ships had sailed under the Treaty of Tordesillas, (June ...

Created on 05 December 2018

47. Theresa May Should Join Angela Merkel at the Retirement Door

(OPINION)

... most serious trouble, arguing that Greeks were lazy and profligate. They were, as were a majority of Italians and Spanish, but as a result the downturn was deepened severely. Four European countries ...

Created on 06 November 2018

48. UN Chief 'Deeply Troubled' by Khashoggi's Death, Rights Experts Slate Saudi Arab

(UN INSIDER)

... and the Saudi authorities have denied all knowledge of his whereabouts. In an exclusive interview on October 17 with the UN News Spanish service at UN Headquarters in New York, Bachelet said that Khashoggi' ...

Created on 19 October 2018