By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 13 November 2025 (IDN) — For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, […]
Walls And Fences Should Come Down
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 13 November 2025 (IDN) — At first, I was a bit surprised when a friend told me that the English admonition, “Good fences make for good neighbours”, exists in many other languages. I shouldn’t have been taken aback. A moment’s reflection should have told me that dividing people with fences […]
Tanzania’s 2025 Elections: AU and SADC Condemn Final Results
By Kester Kenn Klomegah | MOSCOW | 10 November 2025 (IDN) — Women’s empowerment was uniquely exemplified by voting for Samia Suluhu Hassan as the new president of the United Republic of Tanzania late October 2025, but that election has generated distressing reports. Samia Hassan was inaugurated as Tanzania’s first female president in March 2021, […]
Calls for reparations for colonial land dispossession in Africa
By Busani Bafana | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 Nov. 2025 (IDN) – Former colonial powers must provide reparations to atone for land dispossession, a historical injustice that continues to constrain Africa’s social and economic development, a policy conference heard. Mzwanele Nyhontso, Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development, Republic of South Africa the issue of […]
Is a Critical Pillar of the Global Nuclear Arms Control Architecture About to Crumble?
By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA | 10 November 2025 (IDN) — On 26 September 1996, on the floor of the United Nations General Assembly, at the signing ceremony for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), then-US President William J. Clinton declared the treaty as “the longest-sought, hardest fought prize in arms control history.” He exaggerated; in […]
UN80 Initiative – Between Renewal and Regression
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury The following are extensive excerpts from the address by the former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, Ambassador Chowdhury — who founded the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace (GMCoP) — at the United Nations Asia Network for Diversity and Inclusion (UN-ANDI) on the occasion of the […]
Kenya’s Liberal Economy Attracting Russian and Foreign Investors
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | 9 November 2025 (IDN) — Over the years, Kenya and Russia have enjoyed cordial and warm bilateral relations. Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus remain key to Kenya’s development agenda, aligning with the country’s economic blueprint, Vision 2030, and the Fourth Medium Term Plan (MTP IV) 2023–2027, under the broad economic philosophy of […]
Doha Summit Ends With Call To Turn Social Pledges Into Action
By UN News DOHA, Qatar | 7 November 2025 (IDN) — Speaking at the closing press conference, UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock said the Summit marked a “deliberate shift” from identifying gaps to acting on proven solutions. “Copenhagen taught us 30 years ago that social development and inclusion are essential for strong societies,” she said. “We […]
Sudan’s Civil War Ravages the Core of Our Humanity
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 6 November 2025 (IDN) — The Sudanese civil war is one of the greatest tragedies we are witnessing today. The international community is disgraceful for sitting on its hands, watching with indifference this ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023, and so far, several rounds of […]
Venezuela’s Oil, US-led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics
By Jeffrey D. Sachs & Sybil Fares* This article was first published on Common Dreams and is being reproduced with the authors’ permission. NEW YORK | 5 November 2025 (IDN) — The flimsy moral pretext today is the fight against narcotics. Yet, the fundamental objective is to overthrow a sovereign government, and the collateral damage […]