By Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK | 28 February 2025 (IDN) — Finally, a respite after a decade long acrimonious relations that ruined diplomatic relations between the two nuclear powers — the United States and Russia. It is a widely accepted norm that mutually respectful and beneficial relations between nations is a sine qua non in […]
The Alarming Rise of Antisemitism
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 27 February 2025 (IDN) — Anyone who denies that the brutal occupation of the West Bank and war in Gaza has not fueled the rise of antisemitism is willfully naïve Antisemitism is endemic and will not be entirely eradicated at any time. It serves a different need for different […]
Trump’s Despotic Reign is the Antithesis of Genuine Republicanism
By Sam Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 26 February 22025 (IDN) — It should be clear to all Americans with eyes to see that we are witnessing the rise of a despotic presidency whose administration will test this democratic republic in ways which it has never known. The dangers that lie ahead could very well dwarf […]
Trump Needs To Do Most of the Listening in Summit with Putin
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 25 February 2025 (IDN) — The great flaw in ex-president Barack Obama’s record was his policy towards Russia. Going against everything he had said and written about before he became president, one action after another antagonised the Russians — his early proclamation that he wanted Georgia and Ukraine in […]
Democrats Irritated by Voters Who Elected Them Need an Attitude Adjustment
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA | 25 February 2025 (IDN) — The Capitol’s phone lines have been overwhelmed this month, and some Democrats are complaining about the deluge of calls from voters who implore them to fight the Trump administration. Too often the responses to the calls have amounted to passing the buck rightward. […]
Top Scientist Warns Against the Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons
By Bharat Dogra* NEW DELHI, India | 24 February 2024 (IDN) — Although the extremely high risks associated with nuclear weapons are widely recognized, it appears from the conduct of policy by some highly educated policy makers in recent times that they do not appear to give adequate and proper attention to the levels of […]
Deporting Irregular Indian Immigrants from The US Will Have Blowback
By Samata Biswas* KOLKATA. India | 24 February 2025 (IDN) — In January 2022, four members of a family, from the western Indian state of Gujarat, froze to death at the US-Canada border. The couple and their two children had paid a hefty amount to traffickers to be smuggled into the US for what they […]
Italy Under Meloni at A Crossroads: Pragmatism or Populism?
By Valerio Alfonso Bruno* MILAN, Italy | 23 February 2025 (IDN) — Global and European political shifts could push Italy, under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, towards a more radical stance. Since 2022, her government has combined hardline domestic policies on immigration and justice with a pragmatic foreign approach. But rising instability in Europe and the […]
Life Punishes Those Who Come Too Late
By Marc Saxer* This article was issued by IPS-Journal. BERLIN | 20 February 2025 (IDN) — At the Munich Security Conference, two starkly opposing visions of order collided. Future historians may mark this moment as the definitive end of the US-led liberal world order and the point when the erosion of liberal hegemony within Western […]
To Bomb or Not to Bomb Iran
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 18 February 2025 (IDN) — The talk is talk. Or will it walk? President Donald Trump has raised the stakes once again, repeating the threats against Iran in his first term. It all goes back many years. Mitt Romney, the US Republican candidate for the presidency, said that on […]