This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. Viewpoint by Ramesh Thakur CANBERRA, Australia (IDN) — In the 2020 election, President Donald Trump’s supporters looked beyond manifest character flaws to domestic and foreign policy results but opponents couldn’t overlook his character to assess any policy achievements. Joe […]
A Staged Default: Sri Lanka’s Sovereign Bond Debt Trap and IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War – Part 3
This is the second in a series of three articles. Please click here for Part 2. Viewpoint by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake * An Unsinkable Aircraft carrier? Asset stripping a strategic island COLOMBO (IDN) — Former US Under Secretary for South and Central Asia, Alice G. Well, a few years ago called Sri Lanka a “valuable piece […]
A Staged Default: Sri Lanka’s Sovereign Bond Debt Trap and IMF’s Spring Meetings Amid Hybrid Cold War – Part 2
This is the second in a series of three articles. Please click here for Part 1. Viewpoint by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake * Sri Lanka a theatre of US proxy war in the Indian Ocean Region? COLOMBO (IDN) — Like Lebanon, once known as the Paris of the Middle East, Sri Lanka is a relatively wealthy country […]
A Negotiated Peace Alone Will End Russia’s War on Ukraine
This article was issued by CNN and is being republished with the author’s permission. Viewpoint by Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK (IDN) — There is only one answer to the war in Ukraine: a peace deal. The two-pronged US strategy, to help Ukraine overcome the Russian invasion by imposing tough sanctions and by supplying Ukraine’s […]
The Left-Right Divide Since the French Revolution
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — It goes back to the French revolution of 1789. At the Revolutionary Convention the most radical of the insurgents decided to seat themselves on the left side. “Why not on the other side, the right side, the place of rectitude, where law and the higher right resided, […]
Sri Lanka: The Story of the Situation Going from Bad to Worse
Viewpoint by Alan Keenan This article was issued by the International Crisis Group and is being republished with their permission. Alan Keenan is Senior Consultant at the Crisis Group. BRUSSELS (IDN) — Protests, which had been building from late February in response to Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in nearly 75 years of independence, have now […]
Would the New Globalization Have an Eastern Face, If Western-Led Globalization Ends?
Viewpoint by E. Ahmet Tonak and Vijay Prashad * This article was produced by Globetrotter. NEW YORK | NORTHAMPTON (IDN) — An article written by authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg on March 24 sounded the alarm to announce the end of “the second great age of globalization.” The Western trade war and […]
US Hypocrisy over Ukraine and ‘Spheres of Influence’
Viewpoint by Katrina vanden Heuvel NEW YORK (IDN) — The Russian invasion of Ukraine “is in many ways bigger than Russia, it’s bigger than Ukraine,” State Department spokesman Ned Price recently declared. “There are principles that are at stake here … Each and every country has a sovereign right to determine its own foreign policy, […]
Leaders of the United Nations and Member States! Help Russia and Ukraine to Bring About Peace Through the UN Rule of Law!
A message from Members of the Leadership Council of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Members of the SDSN Community* NEW YORK — The war in Ukraine threatens not only sustainable development, but the survival of humanity. We call on all nations, operating in accordance with the UN Charter, to put diplomacy to the […]
Is The US Poised to Sign Up as Member of The International Criminal Court?
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — In 2017 the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released a report which for the first time explicitly named US military forces in the field and CIA operatives in secret prisons as possible war crimes culprits for their alleged use of torture and […]