By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 11 February 2025 (IDN) — War over Ukraine? It mustn’t be. Some of us believed that at the end of the Cold War in 1991 American and Soviet nuclear rockets would be left to rust and rot in their silos. Indeed, we actually saw Ukraine, where the Soviets made […]
Quad and AUKUS Face an Uncertain Future Under Trump
By David M. Andrews* CANBERRA, Australia | 10 February 2025 (IDN) — The return of Donald Trump as US President marks an important crossroads in the future of two emergent Indo-Pacific security frameworks: the Quad, comprising Australia, India, Japan and USA, and AUKUS, the trilateral partnership between Australia, the UK and USA. Both institutions played […]
AFRICOM Carries Out First Trump-Directed Airstrike On ISIS-Somalia
By Pearl Matibe* The premier online African defence and security news publication defenceWeb issued this article. It is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON | 7 February 2025 (IDN) — At the direction of President Donald J Trump, the United States carried out its first airstrike of his second term, targeting ISIS-Somalia operatives in the […]
Reviving The Death Penalty Is One of Trump’s Greatest Moral Failures
by Kimberlee Hurley* NEW YORK | 7 February 2025 (IDN) — One of Trump’s most despicable day-one executive orders revoked Biden’s moratorium on federal executions, ensured that states that still carry out capital punishment have “a sufficient supply of drugs needed to carry out lethal injection,” and urged the Attorney General to seek to overrule […]
Trump’s Campaign to Cut USAID May Have a Silver Lining
By Kalinga Seneviratne* Bangkok, Thailand | 7 February 2025 (IDN) — Since President Donald Trump made the shock announcement last week of freezing United States’ (US) foreign aid budget for three months while threatening to close down its main delivery agency, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the multi-million dollar aid industry has been […]
From America First to America Alone: The Lab Meets the Street
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP and author of the new book Writing for Media and Monetising It. ABUJA, Nigeria | 6 February 2025 (IDN) — It’s nearly 20 years since Mark Steyn wrote a non-fiction book, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Steyn, a Canadian newspaper columnist, could […]
United States Quits UN Tax Convention Process
Eurodad NEW YORK | 5 February 2025 (IDN) — The United States has pulled out of the process to deliver a new UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. The announcement came during the afternoon on the first day of the Organisational Session, which is taking place at UN Headquarters in New York and runs […]
RFK Jr. vs. Modern Farming: What’s at Stake for America’s Food Supply
By Dan Kelley* NORMAL, Illinois USA | 4 February 2025 (IDN) — “There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks,” said Robert F. Kennedy in 1964. Those words resonate today as Congress considers the nomination of his son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for Secretary of Health […]
If Trump Plays It Right, He Can Get the Russians Out of Ukraine
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 2 February 2025 (IDN) — The great flaw in ex-president Barack Obama’s record was his policy towards Russia. Going against everything he had said and written about before he became president, one action after another antagonised the Russians—his early proclamation that he wanted Georgia and Ukraine in Nato, his […]
The US Should Not Hold Provocative War Games Near China
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 28 January 2025 (IDN) — When Donald Trump was last elected as president his secretary of defence, Jim Mattis, declared a new era: “There has been a return of great power competition……great power competition- not terrorism- is now the primary focus of US security”. In the then new national […]