Viewpoint by Bill Dahl* QUERETARO, Mexico (IDN) — Detoxification is essential to human life. Every cell of the human body must routinely detoxify. From the cellular level, these toxins are transported to our organs of elimination—the kidney and liver, to be processed and expelled. Organizations, institutions and governments also become toxic and must purge these […]
“Britain Alone” Tells the Story of Inflated Ambition
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Philip Stephens of the Financial Times writes in the opening page of his new book, “Britain Alone” *: “The alarm was sounded by a distinguished British scientist, Sir Henry Tizard. Tizard had served during the war as a special emissary to Washington for Winston Churchill. His task […]
Human Civilisation on a Collision Course with the Laws of Ecology
Viewpoint by Tom Pegram and Julia Kreienkamp* LONDON (IDN) — As governments around the world roll out COVID-19 vaccine programmes and seek to kickstart their economies back to life, recovery seems to be within reach. However, hard questions must not be sidestepped. How did this pandemic happen? And how resilient are we to future global […]
Gaelic Helping Preserve Scotland’s Marine Environment
Viewpoint by Magnus Course and Alastair Cole* EDINBURGH | NEWCASTLE (IDN) — Regulations brought in following the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union have delayed the export of live shellfish to Europe, causing entire lorry loads of lobsters and langoustines to expire in Scotland’s ports. Fishing is a relatively small part of the UK’s […]
Little-Known Energy Treaty a Climate Threat
Viewpoint by Fabian Flues, Cecilia Olivet and Pia Eberhardt* LONDON (IDN) — On February 4, the German energy giant RWE announced it was suing the government of the Netherlands. The crime? Proposing to phase out coal from the country’s electricity mix. The company, which is Europe’s biggest emitter of carbon, is demanding 1.4 billion euros […]
Gorbachev’s Legacy After 30 Years of the Soviet Union’s Disintegration
By Andrei Grachev A Russian historian, political analyst and journalist, Dr Andrei Grachev, was the adviser for Mikhail Gorbachev and official Spokesman of the President of the USSR until his resignation in December 1991. InDepthNews is re-publishing this article courtesy of Other News. Original link > https://www.other-news.info/2021/03/the-time-of-gorbachev MOSCOW (IDN) — Two books were published practically […]
Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands
Viewpoint by Moritz Kütt, Jan Hoekema and Tom Sauer * The English version of this article was first published in The Toda Peace Institute‘s Global Outlook on February 28, 2021.** TOKYO (IDN) — On January 22, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. The new agreement also called the Nuclear Ban […]
Reinvigorate Multilateralism by Replacing its Operating Principle
Viewpoint by Inge Kaul* The following article first appeared on the website of Center for Global Development and was adapted from a paper published originally by Global Perspectives and cross-published by CGD. BERLIN (IDN | CGD) — The global policy debate on multilateralism has taken an intriguing turn during recent months and its focus has […]
India’s Farmers’ Protests Threaten to Overturn the Political Landscape
Viewpoint by Vijay Prashad* NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts (IDN) — For the past three months, Indian farmers and agricultural workers have been in the middle of a difficult struggle against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Tens of thousands of them have gathered around the capital city of New Delhi; they say that they will not […]
Biden Should Stop Military Activism and Start Thinking
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN) — “Diplomacy is back”, President Joe Biden said recently. But then in the middle of a delicate diplomatic dance with Iran he goes and bombs a small, politically inconsequential, Iranian surrogate in Syria, in retaliation for the killing of one American soldier. This seems to go against everything […]