By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE, Zimbabwe (IDN) — Life is no longer the same for Zimbabwe’s shop owner, 34-year-old Richwell Mhasi in the capital Harare who has had to park his car at home, switching to his bicycle, cycling to and from work amid the rising prices of fuel since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war […]
ICAN Successfully Promoting the Nuclear-Weapons Ban in Africa
By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA (IDN) — 2017 Nobel Peace laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and its partner organisations are carrying out activities across Africa to promote adherence to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and to raise awareness of the grave threat that nuclear weapons pose to all […]
Looks Like Another “Bad Blue” Just Bit the Dust
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA (IDN) — Three years ago, we helped write a report for RootsAction.org targeting 15 corporate Democrats in Congress who deserved to be “primaried.” We called the report “Bad Blues.” A common reaction back then was that those establishment pols were too strong and entrenched to be […]
Endless War in Ukraine Hurts National and Global Security
Viewpoint by Katrina van den Heuvel* This article is distributed by Globetrotter in partnership with The Nation. NEW YORK (IDN) — What are the United States’ goals in the Ukraine war? Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently announced that the United States wants “Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things […]
Ukraine War Constraints UN To Revise Global Growth Estimates
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) — The latest United Nations forecast warns that growth prospects have weakened significantly amid the war in Ukraine, upending the fragile economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, triggering a devastating humanitarian crisis in Europe, increasing food and commodity prices and exacerbating inflationary pressures worldwide.
Behind India’s Wheat Fiasco
By V Sridhar This article was issued by NewsClick, and is being republished courtesy of that independent media organization in India. NEW DELHI (IDN) — The month of May seems to be the Narendra Modi Government’s favourite month for conjuring a crisis out of thin air. Exactly a year ago, it was the vaccine fiasco; […]
The World Is on Way to Ending War, Despite Ukraine
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — An ugly cloud of pessimism hangs over many parts of the world. War that seemed to be in retreat, has returned with a vengeance with the second-largest military in the world, Russia’s, battling a very under-resourced neighbour, Ukraine. It’s getting a lot of people down. Yet there […]
The Latest IPCC Report: No Good News for Pacific Islands Countries
Viewpoint by Volker Boege This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. QUEENSLAND, Australia (IDN) — The latest IPCC report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability shows that the effects of climate change are more severe than previously thought, that the situation will deteriorate globally faster than expected […]
Fiji: Recognising Sufferings of Indentured Labourers
By Ravindra Singh Prasad SUVA (IDN) — Every year on May 14 Fiji’s Indian community mark the day when the first shipment of their ancestors came here as indentured labourers to work in British sugarcane plantations established in their Pacific Ocean colony. Girmitiya is how they came to be known over time—the name derived from […]
Security Council to Hold Emergency Session on World Food Security
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — The United States, which is holding the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council this month, has summoned an “emergency session” of the Council on May 19 to focus largely on world food security in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony […]