BRUSSELS. Belgium | 21 January 2026 (IDN) — “We Europeans, decide who comes to Europe and crosses our borders, and under what circumstances, and not the smugglers and traffickers” was the message in European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen’s speech, kicking off the Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling conference on 10 December in […]
Why World War II Analogies Are Reappearing in Debates Over ICE on America’s Streets
Originally posted here. By Piet Gotlieb* TILBURG, The Netherlands | 20 January 2026 (IDN) — On January 7 of 2026, Renée Good was shot and killed by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The killing of the 37-year-old mother and author tugs at the heart strings of the American and global public, and […]
Human–Elephant Conflict: What Sri Lanka Can Learn from Africa
By Sydney Marcus Silva* NEW JERSEY, USA | 16 January 2026 (IDN) — Human–Elephant Conflict (HEC) has emerged as one of the most serious environmental and social challenges of our time. Across Asia and Africa, rapidly expanding human populations, shrinking forests, and intensifying climate stress are forcing people and elephants into dangerous confrontations. The results […]
Situation Report: US pauses assistance to Somalia
Situation in Sudan (per 8 January) Tomorrow marks 1000 days since the start of the conflict in Sudan. Fighting continues unabated. A drone attack on a house in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, has killed 13 people, including children, on Tuesday. Fighting in the Kordofan region has displaced 65.000 people in the span of three months. The […]
Americans Love Watching TV Wars
By James E. Jennings* ATLANTA, USA | 7 January 2026 (IDN) — On January 3, key figures of the American government lined up in front of TV cameras at Florida’s Mar-a-Lago White House and bragged about the latest American whiz-bang overseas war—this time against Venezuela—which included violating the U.S. Constitution, breaking a host of international […]
A Global Piracy For All To See
By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK | 7 January 2026 (IDN) — Trump’s actions in Venezuela are morally calamitous, showing a perilous disregard for human dignity and the rights of ordinary Venezuelans to be free from external forces. Although Maduro is a corrupt autocrat who has often ruled by decree, no country has the right to […]
Situation Report: Somaliland’s independence recognised by Israel
Situation in Sudan (per 5 January) Over 114 people have lost their lives in the western region of Darfur, amid the recent clashes between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) using drone strikes and ground assaults, according to medical sources. Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris has proposed a plan to end […]
2025 Exposed A Myth: The ‘American Dream’ Is A Debt Trap
By Kalinga Seneviratne* BANGKOK, Thailand | 5 January 2026 (IDN) — The US President Donald Trump’s Tariff War on the rest of the world in 2025 should go down in history as the year when the ‘American Dream” unraveled as a Debt Trap. In 2008, the so-called subprime lending crisis gave a hint of it, […]
Why 2026 Marks ‘The New Disorder World’
BUT IT IS NOT INEVITABLE By Ramesh Jaura This article was first published on https://rjaura.substack.com/ BERLIN | 3 January 2026 (WorldView) — There was a time when humanitarian statistics startled the world. A million displaced people made headlines. A famine declaration triggered emergency summits. Images of starving children or bombed-out cities forced leaders to respond, […]
Cyclone Ditwah Exposed Sri Lanka’s Real Housing Crisis
A Land-Use and Population Capacity Analysis By Sydney Marcus Silva NEW JERSEY, USA | 31 December 2025 (IDN) — Sri Lanka’s recurring housing crises, increasingly intensified by climate-related disasters, reflect long-standing structural failures in land-use planning rather than absolute land scarcity. This article examines the relationship between environmental constraints, historical land transformation, and contemporary settlement […]