You Can Still Be Hero If Only You Muster the Courage By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK, 21 April 2023 (IDN) — I can’t imagine how you must feel. Perhaps never throughout your political career have you faced a more fateful test in your life. You have placed yourself in an untenable state. If you win […]
Nuclear War or Negotiations with North Korea?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden, 20 April 2023 (IDN) — Of all the rogues, there is no question that Kim Jong-Un and his odious regime in North Korea are the furthest advanced in threatening the outside world with nuclear weapons. Yet an honest administration in Washington has to ask itself how much the U.S. has […]
A Nuclear Goliath vs a Non-Nuclear David
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 16 April 2023 (IDN) — The rising military tensions between a nuclear-armed China and a non-nuclear Taiwan is turning out to be an upcoming re-play of the ongoing battle between Russia and Ukraine—a conflict between a nuclear and a non-nuclear country. But any confrontation in Asia will likely favour a […]
Why Several Democratic Countries Do Not Support Ukraine
Some are Shifting Closer to Russia By Jose Caballero Dr José Caballero is a Senior Economist at IMD World Competitiveness Center, International Institute for Management Development (IMD). LAUSANNE, Switzerland, 14 April 2023 (IDN) — After over a year of the Ukraine war, efforts at building a global consensus against Russia seem to have stalled, with many […]
North Korea Accused of Funding its Missile Programmes with Crypto Currency
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 10 April 2023 (IDN) — The United States and its two closest Asian allies—Japan and South Korea—have accused the North Koreans of illegally financing its ballistic missile programmes. In a hard-hitting statement released on April 7, the three countries reiterate with concern that overseas IT workers of the Democratic People’s […]
Latin America the Deadliest Region for Human Rights Defenders
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 5 April 2023 (IDN) — The world’s human rights defenders (HRDs) continue to be under constant attacks worldwide—with Latin America branded as the deadliest region. In its Global Analysis 2022 released April 4, the Dublin-based Front Line Defenders (FLD) provides a long list of threats faced by HRDs in all […]
Putin’s Nuclear Sabre-Rattling in Belarus Triggers a WW III Warning
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — As Russian nuclear threats keep escalating following the invasion of Ukraine 14 months ago, President Vladimir Putin issued a new warning on March 26: that he plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a close political, economic and military ally of Moscow. “The United […]
Japan Urged to Push Nuclear Disarmament Principle at G7 Hiroshima Summit
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY | TOKYO, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — Addressing a live-streamed conference held at Soka University in Tokyo on 29 March in preparation for the G7 summit in May, which Japan hosts, Takashi Ariyoshi, Deputy Secretary General of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Secretariat said that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had put high […]
Global Nuclear Freeze Could Avert New Arms Race
By Daryl G. Kimball The writer is the Executive Director of the Arms Control Association (ACA). The following text was published in the organization’s monthly journal, Arms Control Today. WASHINGTON, D.C., 1 April 2023 (IDN) — After more than a decade of deteriorating relations and dithering on disarmament, the three largest nuclear powers—Russia, the United […]
Arms Flow to Ukraine Threatens to Undermine US Fire Power
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 31 March 2023 (IDN) — The uninterrupted flow of US weapons to Ukraine—running into billions of dollars—may ultimately have a negative fallout on American military security and its fire power. So far, US economic and military aid to Ukraine, along with security assistance, is estimated at about 100 billion dollars. […]