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 […]

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, […]

If The US Wants, It Can Solve the Ukraine Crisis Tomorrow

This article was originally published by CommonDreams.org under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Viewpoint by Robert Freeman LIVERMORE, CA USA (IDN) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine is an unambiguously bad thing. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum. In order to solve the problem, we have to first understand the context in which it occurred, […]

The End Of (Human) History?

Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is Ambassador, former United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affair, and President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. NEW YORK (IDN) — Roughly three decades have gone by since the publication of Francis Fukuyama’s essay “The End of History?”. The interrogation mark makes clear that the social […]

Putin’s Aggression Against Ukraine Has Changed the World

This article was issued by the Wall Street International and is being republished with their permission. Viewpoint by Franz Baumann NEW YORK (IDN) — Wars teach about geography. In mid-February, the autocorrect on my phone did not recognize, and few people in Western Europe or America could have located on a map Mariupol, Charkiv, Bucha, […]

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