By Michael von der Schulenburg* BRUSSELS | 5 March 2026 (IDN) — In the Western world today, there are an alarming number of politicians and media outlets that justify or even welcome military action by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Driven by the self-righteousness we are so familiar with, […]
Trump and Netanyahu Are Chasing an Illusion in Iran
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 5 March 2026 (IDN) — Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have launched a campaign against Iran with maximalist aims and minimalist means. They speak the language of regime change, but the political, military, and social preconditions are not present. The result will not be transformation in Tehran, but a […]
Trump’s Nuclear Diplomacy
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 4 March 2026 (IDN) — Besides President Donald Trump’s conviction that Iran is very close to building nuclear weapons (which the CIA disputes), there is a next crisis looming on Trump’s agenda. It might well be North Korea, which openly has the bomb, many of them. (Due to a […]
Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to us as the War on Iran Continues
By Norman Solomon* NEW YORK | 3 March 2026 (IDN) — When Daniel Ellsberg died in 2023, the world lost a unique voice of sanity. Five decades earlier, as a “national security” insider, he had released the top-secret Pentagon Papers to expose the official lies behind the ongoing Vietnam War. From then on, he never […]
Future Proofing FDI in Asia and Pacific: Navigating Business not as Usual
By Heather Lynne Taylor-Strauss, Tom Becker & and Sarah Odelé-Gruau Molero* BANGKOK | 2 March 2026 (IDN) — Foreign direct investment is not just a measure of economic confidence; it is one of the most powerful tools the Asia-Pacific region has to finance sustainable development, build resilient infrastructure and create quality jobs. The region witnessed […]
Trump and MAGA: The Conduit for a White Supremacist Agenda
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 2 March 2026 (IDN) — Trump’s rhetoric and policies on immigration and citizenship consistently elevate white, especially European, migrants while targeting non-white communities for exclusion, removal, or diminished political power. His efforts collectively push a racial hierarchy embedded in state policy. Framed as “security,” “merit,” or “rule of law,” […]
Europe Confronts a World Without Guarantees
The Merz Doctrine, and the Cost of Strategic Adulthood This article first appeared on https://rjaura.substack.com By Ramesh Jaura* BERLIN | 1 March 2026 (IDN) — For nearly eight decades, Europe thrived under the sturdy canopy of a security order that felt immovable. The United States was the bedrock of NATO, its power a shield against […]
Nigeria Looks to Brazil: Diaspora Diplomacy and a New South–South Economic Push
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | BRASILIA | 27 February 2026 (IDN) — Nigeria is quietly recalibrating its South–South diplomacy — and this time, the compass points firmly toward Brazil. At the centre of this renewed engagement is the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas (NIDOA)–Brazil chapter, which is positioning itself not merely as a community […]
Why Europe Conquered the World and What Next
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 25 February 2026 (IDN) — Eleven hundred years ago, Europe was a backwater. There were no grand cities, apart from Cordoba in Spain, which was Muslim. The Middle East was much further ahead, still absorbing the intellectual delights and challenges of Greek science, medicine, and architecture, while Europeans were […]
Africa Is Not a Chessboard
Those who recognize this will help shape the future By Ramesh Jaura This article first appeared on rjaura.substack.com BERLIN | 24 February 2026 (WorldView) — From a European vantage point, with transatlantic ties on shaky ground, the recent African Union Summit in Addis Ababa felt less like a formal gathering and more like a seismic […]