By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | 6 October 2025 (IDN) — Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, showcased its latest floating nuclear technologies at African Energy Week 2025 (AEW 2025) in South Africa, engaging African energy experts, entrepreneurs, and policymakers on the adoption of floating nuclear plants. The corporation underscored its long-term commitment to delivering […]
A Rare Alignment: The World Stands Ready, Are the Palestinians?
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 2 October 2025 (IDN) — The international community has rallied behind the Palestinians in support of their aspiration for statehood. The question is, will the Palestinians seize this rare opportunity and adopt a new strategy critical to realizing their national goal? I do not recall a period since the […]
Trump’s Board of Peace May Soon be Bored with Peace
By James E. Jennings* ATLANTA, USA | 2 October 2025 (IDN) — Last Monday’s show at the White House featured a smug-faced Prime Minister Netanyahu and a rambling, self-congratulatory President Trump, virtually bestowing the Nobel Prize on himself for his “Millennial” achievement. It was somewhat reminiscent of the scene at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris […]
Trump’s Peace Plan: A Turning Point for Palestine?
By Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK | 1 October 2025 (IDN) — Nearly two years into the genocidal war in Gaza, the international community has reached a turning point. With a historic genocide ruling from the UN, a sweeping diplomatic recognition of Palestinian statehood, and mounting pressure on Israel, world leaders are now acting with rare […]
A Serious Proposal: Russia and China Call for Global Strategic Stability
By Alice Slater* NEW YORK | 1 October 2025 (IDN) — It’s ironic that the arms control community is protesting the idea of resuming nuclear test detonations. The nuclear test detonations have never stopped. Although Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996, he swiftly funded the “Stockpile Stewardship” program at the […]
Operation Colombo: The Assassinations of Bandaranaike and Allende
What two Cold War killings reveal about empire and disinformation. By Darini Rajasingham Senanayake* COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 1 October 2025 (IDN) — September marks anniversaries in the chilling deaths of two democratically elected Socialist heads of state during the United States’ led Cold War anti-communist crusade that unfolded across the world between 1948-91: The […]
The Hidden Toll of Maternal Mortality in Kenya
Reflections from Kenya’s high-level policy dialogue and civil society convening in Nairobi By Dr Margaret Lubaale and Lisa Mushega* Nairobi, Kenya | 30 September 2025 (IDN) — Behind every maternal death in Kenya is a family forever changed. Children lose their mothers, communities lose their leaders, and the country loses its potential. At a recent […]
Breathing Life into the Corpse of Palestine
By Dr. James E. Jennings ATLANTA, USA | 24 September 2025 (IDN) — The barely viable Two-State Solution appears to have made a brief comeback at the United Nations General Assembly. Emmanuel Macron of France and Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine—one young, one old—huffed and puffed in the attempt to put new life into a near-dead […]
Advocating Increased Taxation on Tobacco and Nicotine Products
Reducing Consumption Among Young People in Kenya By Whitney Atieno The writer is a Kamukunji Youth and Tobacco Control Advocate. NAIROBI | 23 September 2025 (IDN) — Tobacco consumption is a significant public health issue in Kenya, causing approximately 12,000 deaths annually and contributing to various cancers and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). According to the […]
Suspending US-Kosovo Dialogue — A Rude Awakening for Kurti
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 19 September 2025 (IDN) — Although Trump does not necessarily follow logical and practical foreign policy to frame US relations with other countries, his decision to suspend the US-Kosovo dialogue was not entirely misguided. Prime Minister Kurti has failed to demonstrate statesmanship in steering the country in the right […]