By Conor Lennon NEW YORK | 2 January 2025 (IDN | UN News) — The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis in November 2025, when it hosts one of the most significant UN climate conferences in recent years. However, throughout the years there will […]
Jimmy Carter Told Trump How to Put America First. But Will He Do It?
By Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 2 January 2025 (IDN) — With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a phone conversation that Carter had with Trump during his first term. Carter’s advice would serve Trump well […]
Jimmy Carter’s Life Is Not Ending in Failure
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 2 January 2025 (IDN) — The lives of all politicians end in failure”. So said Enoch Powell, a maverick former cabinet minister in the British government. Of recent US presidents Jimmy Carter has not been alone in being considered “a failure”. Think of Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam war). George W. […]
New Cold War in South Asia as the BRICS Rise
US Sanctions and Regime Change Aragalaya Protests By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake* COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 27 December 2024 (IDN) — There will be no honeymoon for the newly minted National People’s Power (NPP) Government that got a massive people’s mandate for debt justice. The storm blowing from Washington DC across the Indian Ocean World—targeting China to […]
Africa: Too Few Are Interested in Learning the Russian Language
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW | 27 December 2024 (IDN) — Russian language study is hitting roadblocks in Africa. For several years after the Soviet collapse, Moscow has been stepping up efforts to strengthen Russian language study and its culture across Africa. However, there have been few tangible results, mainly due to low motivation towards […]
Now It Can Be Told . . . After All the Harm Has Been Done
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA | 26 December 2024 (IDN) — This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless bands of militias that pillaged homes and laid waste to entire communities.” Those militias “tortured civilians, kidnapped for ransom, […]
Open Sesame for War Criminals?
By Tisaranee Gunasekara* “Israel today is dynamiting the edifice of the global norms built after 1945.” — Pankaj Mishra (The Shoah after Gaza – London Review of Books – 21.3.2014) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 26 December 2024 (IDN) — In the second decade of the 21st Century, genocide is being televised. 72 Virgins—Uncensored was a […]
How Christmas Came to Be Celebrated on December 25
Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ. But early Christians did not celebrate his birth, and no one knows on which date Jesus was actually born By Arjun Sengupta, Indian Express NEW DELHI | 25 December 2024 — The birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated annually in most (not all) places on December 25, as […]
A Day’s Affair of A Jewish and Muslim Calling in Morocco
By Yossef Ben-Meir* MARRAKECH | 24 December 2024 (IDN) — On the 12 December 2024, I set out with four colleagues of the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) to meet with members of the rural community of Tafza (Al Haouz province, Marrakesh region), located in the mountain range that bore the horrendous epicenter of the September […]
Who Will Stop Israel as it Defies the UN and Invades Syria?
By Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 23 December 2024 (IDN) — The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on Syria. Israel also attacked anddestroyed most of the Syrian Navy in port at Latakia, and invaded Syria from the long-occupied […]