By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 5 January 2026 (IDN) —What drives people to extremes? Why do the people behind Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (IS) get so charged up and angry? To understand this dynamic, it is helpful to return to 16th-century Europe and the furious debates over the divine right of kings. Monarchs […]
2025 Exposed A Myth: The ‘American Dream’ Is A Debt Trap
By Kalinga Seneviratne* BANGKOK, Thailand | 5 January 2026 (IDN) — The US President Donald Trump’s Tariff War on the rest of the world in 2025 should go down in history as the year when the ‘American Dream” unraveled as a Debt Trap. In 2008, the so-called subprime lending crisis gave a hint of it, […]
Why 2026 Marks ‘The New Disorder World’
BUT IT IS NOT INEVITABLE By Ramesh Jaura This article was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com/ BERLIN | 3 January 2026 (WorldView) — There was a time when humanitarian statistics startled the world. A million displaced people made headlines. A famine declaration triggered emergency summits. Images of starving children or bombed-out cities forced leaders to respond, […]
Cyclone Ditwah Exposed Sri Lanka’s Real Housing Crisis
A Land-Use and Population Capacity Analysis By Sydney Marcus Silva NEW JERSEY, USA | 31 December 2025 (IDN) — Sri Lanka’s recurring housing crises, increasingly intensified by climate-related disasters, reflect long-standing structural failures in land-use planning rather than absolute land scarcity. This article examines the relationship between environmental constraints, historical land transformation, and contemporary settlement […]
Russia–Africa: Foreign Minister Lavrov Points to Weak Media Coverage
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | 27 December 2025 (IDN) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has sharply criticised the near absence of African media presence in the Russian Federation, arguing that this gap undermines the development of a positive and balanced Russia–Africa relationship. Speaking at the plenary session of the Ministerial Conference held in […]
Europe’s Rearmament: A Test of Democracy
Support is real, but the most challenging political test comes later By Ramesh Jaura This article was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com/ BERLIN | 27 December 2025 (IDN) — Europe is taking on debt to fund its defence, building up its military, and asking people to be patient. History shows that the real political challenges often […]
The Democrats’ Greatest Challenge Ever
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 27 December 2025 (IDN) — The Democrats can potentially wrest control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections only if they listen very carefully to what the American people are yearning for. The public cares less about left, right, or centrist slogans; they want a government that provides […]
Diving Deep into Natural Disasters: Real or Fake?
By Fathima Kadhija Mohamed* TOKYO | 26 December 2025 (IDN) — The recent rise in natural disasters worldwide has inflicted serious damage on infrastructure and economies across several nations—from typhoons and floods devastating South Asia and Africa to wildfires in Iran, Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean, and spontaneous earthquakes across Asia. Yet while these disasters […]
Who’s the Real Outlaw at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade
Bz Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies NEW YORK | 24 December 2025 (IDN) — The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific under the banner of “drug enforcement,” killing over 100 […]
Behind Putin–Modi’s Handshakes: A New Chapter of Russian-Indian Alliance
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW | 20 December 2025 (IDN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s December 4–5, 2025, visit to India—his first since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war—carried heavy symbolism and clear strategic messaging, capped by an unprecedented public embrace with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The trip underscored the durability of a decades-old partnership […]