Viewpoint by Kevin P. Clements This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. TOKYO (IDN) — As a peace researcher for over 40 years, it appals me that in 2022 we are trying to make sense of an outmoded 20th century invasion aimed at changing borders […]
Ukraine Should Have a Policy Of ‘Non-Involvement With NATO’, Opined Zbigniew Brzezinski
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — The truth is this whole Russian-Ukrainian-Western confrontation could be largely solved if the Ukrainian and Western sides wrote on paper that they don’t want to see Ukraine in NATO. This is the key issue for Russia. But it must be written down. Moscow no longer trusts verbal […]
Putin’s War of Aggression on Ukraine and the Non-proliferation Regime
By Daryl Kimball The writer is executive director, Arms Control Association. This editorial is issued in the March 2022 issue of Arms Control Today. WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) — President Vladimir Putin has chosen the path of destruction instead of diplomacy. His months-long build-up of a massive Russian invasion force encircling Ukraine and his decision on […]
India’s Domineering Role Over Sri Lanka
By Mulaffer Khalid The writer is a political analyst, a Senior Lecturer at the Chartered Institute of Supply & Materials Management and Visiting Lecturer both at the National Institute of Business Management and the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration. COLOMBO (IDN) — India, one of the major nuclear powers in South Asia, has long […]
“They”, The Blob, Are Pushing for War Over Ukraine
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — You can insult them, call them the “Blob”, “group thinkers”, or even worse. You can challenge their scholarship and their prejudices. You can demonstrate that the policies they advocated for former wars were dead wrong and met failure. You can prove they don’t know their history and […]
Drought and Hunger Stalk the Horn of Africa While the Continent Is in the Grip of Coups
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — There’s a severe, earth-baking drought in the Horn of Africa. About 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti are in the grip of acute hunger. The rains have failed in three consecutive years, […]
Ukraine Conflict: Need to Re-Evaluate NATO’s Role
Viewpoint by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies* NEW YORK (IDN) — Every day brings new noise and fury in the crisis over Ukraine, mostly from Washington. But what is really likely to happen? There are three possible scenarios: The first is that Russia will suddenly launch an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Two Sides of The Same Coin — The Legal Controversy of China’s Naturalisation Practice in Sport
Viewpoint by Dr Yiyong Liang The writer is a Sport business consultant and an independent researcher. HEBEI (IDN) — Athletes’ naturalisation has been common practice in international sports, many countries have turned to foreign nations for success. It is not until recent years the Chinese government adopted such an approach in order to shine on […]
Russia On the Warpath? Or Is Peace at Hand?
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power MOSCOW (IDN) — Just before former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev made his stunning criticism of the West that, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it had engaged in “triumphalism”, I was in Moscow. Everyone I talked to say the West had set out to humiliate Russia (not to help rebuild […]
Understanding Russia
Viewpoint by John Scales Avery* COPENHAGEN (IDN) — Both Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin and its Foreign Secretary, Sergey Laverov, have repeatedly stated that Russia does not intend to invade Ukraine. Logic also tells us that if they had wished to do so, they would have done it long ago. The threat of a Russian invasion […]