Viewpoint by Roberto Savio * This article was issued by Meer and is being re-published with the author’s permission. ROME (IDN) — It seems to me that after six weeks of conflict we have to take stock of the conflict, looking at which of the actors have got any profit: the famous latin cui prodest… […]
US Strategic Goal Of “Weakening Russia” Is Playing with Fire
Viewpoint by John Burroughs This article was issued by Common Dreams and is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. The author is a Senior Analyst for the New York City-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. NEW YORK (IDN) — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin provided a revealing and disturbing glimpse into a darker element […]
The Media Needs a Total Reformation—Not Just a Reform Here and There
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power This article builds on a column of 1974 the author wrote for the New York Times. It was the most prominent article printed that day on the op-ed page. Over a long career, he has developed those ideas and the following is the result. LUND, Sweden (IDN) — A famous Fleet […]
Russian and US Parallel Pathways to a Nuclear Conflict
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 […]