Sixty Years in Journalism, The World Was My Oyster By Jonathan Power | Ibidem Press | Pub Date: October 2024 | ISBN: 9783838218380 | 150 pages BERLIN | 4 July 2024 (IDN) — A foreign affairs journalist for 60 years, Jonathan Power is a renowned journalist, filmmaker, and broadcaster, best known for his weekly column […]
Giant Wall Mural on Sustainable Development Goals Inaugurated
By Reinhard Jacobsen VIENNA | 28 June 2024 (IDN) — The gigantic mural painting, “Woman with Dove – Shaping Our Common Future”, has been inaugurated at a special ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in Austria’s capital city. Representatives of Host Country, City of Vienna, 22nd municipal district, the United Nations and the Calle Libre […]
Russia: A Window to Europe Becomes a Gateway to Asia
By Yakov M. Rabkin* This article was originally published on Pressenza. MONTREAL, Canada | 12 June 2024 (IDN) — There has been ample coverage of a marathon press conference held by Vladimir Putin for heads of foreign and Russian press agencies earlier this month. Predictably, most attention was drawn to his answer to a British […]
Popular Chorus of Men to Boost Church Finances in Zimbabwe
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 21 May 2024 (IDN) — Decolonizing institutions, particularly religions on the African continent, is a compelling and urgent task. That’s the novel subject of a paper by Benjamin Tyavkase Gudaku, Master in Religious Studies from Benue State University in Makurdi, Nigeria. It’s also the topic of […]
A Novel Uncovers the Brutal Realities of West African Migrant Trafficking
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | 19 May 2024 (IDN) — ‘The Human Flow’, a novel by Jonathan Power—a renowned journalist, filmmaker, and broadcaster—offers a gripping and thought-provoking read. Published by ‘ibidem Press’ in February 2024, it is a captivating book about two journalists—a Tanzanian, Agnes and Jon, an Englishman. They embark on a dangerous journey […]
West African Philosopher Who Challenged Colonialism Leaves Major Legacy
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 31 March 2024 (IDN)—Paulin Jidenu Hountondji of Benin, West Africa, considered one of the founding fathers of modern African philosophy, has recently passed away at the age of 82. His work “On African Philosophy” (1976) greatly clarified the debate over African philosophy—freeing it from the colonial […]
Close-up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO | 26 March 2024 (IDN) — Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ Oscar speech.” The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending Israel as it […]
“Oppenheimer” Brings the Harsh Reality of Nuclear Doomsday, Warns UN Chief
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 25 March 2024 (IDN)— The award-winning movie “Oppenheimer”, based on the life of Robert Oppenheimer, credited with having helped the creation of the atomic bomb, has once again turned the spotlight on the longstanding campaign for nuclear disarmament—and the deaths and devastation caused by one of the world’s most destructive […]
Life on an American Campus: From a Hoodlum to a Dean
By Thalif Deen NEW YORK | 29 February 2024 (IDN) — The crisis in Gaza has triggered a negative fallout on some of the prestigious Ivy League universities in the US, including Harvard, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, where philanthropists who doled out multi-million-dollar donations are now threatening to reduce or cut off funding […]
Nigeria: Battling with a Serious Cost-of-Living Crisis
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA | 15 February 2024 (IDN) — I was going through some old files in my closet the other day when I saw some documents and receipts that absolutely cracked me up. Among the browning, time-worn papers was the […]