By Ramesh Jaura* This article was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com/ BERLIN | 9 August 2025 (IDN) — In a world reeling from climate disruption, collapsing biodiversity, and mounting water and food insecurity, land has emerged as both a battleground and a beacon of hope. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) marks not only […]
Palestine: Worsening Humanitarian Catastrophe
By Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK | 8 August 2025 (IDN) — For eight decades, the world has witnessed the suffering of the Palestinians. Recently, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that “Palestinians in Gaza are enduring a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions”. The deplorable status of the Palestinians is a vivid example of how Israel […]
Africa’s Drone Vanguard Leads Technological Innovation
By Ramesh Jaura This article was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com/ BERLIN, ABUJA (Nigeria) | 8 August 2025 (IDN) — In a nondescript hangar on the edge of Nigeria’s capital, engineers in Terra Industries uniforms are assembling sleek, black UAVs—machines that could redefine how Africa protects its lifelines. These aren’t weapons of war. They’re first responders, […]
Ridding the Menace of Nuclear Weapons
By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA | 4 August 2025 (IDN) — This year, 2025, marks several historic events of the nuclear age which moved from theoretical calculations to physical reality at 3:25 PM local time on 2 December 1942, when the Italian nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi achieved the first controlled self-sustaining atomic fission chain reaction from […]
UN’s Reform Process Needs Intensive Deliberations and Consultations
By Simone Galimberti* KATHMANDU, Nepal | 3 August 2025, (IDN) — For several months, the United Nations has been in turmoil. The whole UN System, with myriad agencies and programs, is questioning itself. Staff in country offices are holding town-hall meetings because their jobs are in jeopardy. The UN Secretary General and his senior staff […]
Multipolar Africa: As the U.S. Steps Back, a New World Arrives
A New Scramble, A New Sovereignty By Ramesh Jaura This analysis was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com BERLIN | 2 August 2025 (IDN) — A quiet yet profound transformation is underway in Africa. While U.S. headlines remain preoccupied with Ukraine, Taiwan, and election cycles, a geopolitical reordering is playing out on a continent long viewed by […]
Mandates Without Meaning: Why UN Reform Must Begin with a Mandate Cull
By Stephanie Hodge* NEW YORK | 1 August 2025 (IDN) — The UN has never been short on words. It’s drowning in them. Every year, thousands of meetings convene, resolutions multiply like rabbits, and the ink dries on mandates so outdated they might as well be written in Morse code. The recently released Mandate Implementation […]
The Moral Cost of Jewish Leaders’ Silence
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 1 August 2025 (IDN) — The war crimes perpetrated by the Netanyahu government against Palestinians have seriously harmed Jews around the world, as many Jewish leaders not only remained silent in the wake of these crimes, but also actively tried to silence critics of Israel’s war crimes. Although a […]
‘Moral Injury’: Murdered in Gaza, Disappeared in America
By Abba Solomon* SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, USA | 30 July 2025 (IDN) — Moral injury is the social, psychological, and spiritual harm that arises from a betrayal of one’s core values, such as justice, fairness, and loyalty “Moral Injury” — Psychology Today, emphasis added. I became interested in the term “moral injury” when I read of […]
The Dreadful Simplicity of Today’s Warmongers
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 29 July 2025 (IDN) — Does America know what a dangerous game its leaders have been playing? Does it know its history? And do the leaders of Europe, who should be a brake on American determination, go along with Washington because they are almost equally ignorant? The fact is, […]