A Landmark Victory for the United Nations Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK (IDN) – The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) reached on October 24 the required 50 signatories for its entry into force on January 22, 2021. It will eventually make nuclear weapons — the most dangerous weapons of […]
Trump’s Cousins Can’t Wait to Be Born
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview magazine based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) – I suspected the pregnancy will not be carried to full term and now, it’s playing out. Even before the US electoral monster conceived by President Donald J. Trump was weaned, a few African countries […]
Far Poorer and Less Technologically Advanced Nations Than the US Have No Problem Holding Quick, Efficient Elections
Viewpoint by Glenn Greenwald* This article is being republished from Information Clearing House. NEW YORK (IDN ) – The richest and most powerful country on earth — whether due to ineptitude, choice or some combination of both — has no ability to perform the simple task of counting votes in a minimally efficient or confidence-inspiring […]
The West Is Often Ill-Informed About Islam
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN) – France has its back to the wall, unnecessarily so. Its coronavirus policy is in a mess. (How come the Asians and Africans can get it right and the Europeans and Americans can’t? Perhaps we are racially inferior.) And now there is the appalling act by an 18-year […]
How Colonial Policy Is Impoverishing Indian Ocean Coastal Communities
Viewpoint by Dr Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The writer is an anthropologist affiliated with the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. Read also A Hybrid Cold War Unfolding in The Indo-Pacific Beneath the Covid-19 Mask. COLOMBO (IDN) – Like the Chagossians who were forcibly displaced to Mauritius and Seychelles, Sri Lankan and other Indian Ocean Rim […]
A Hybrid Cold War Unfolding in The Indo-Pacific Beneath the Covid-19 Mask
Viewpoint by Dr Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The writer is an anthropologist affiliated with the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. COLOMBO (IDN) – The Covid-19 narrative has colonised the world, shutting down the global and local economy and society, with a face mask as its telling symbol. In strategically located Sri Lanka, more people have […]
New Research Raises Alarm for Our Most Precious Buffer to Climate Change: Groundwater
Viewpoint by Vincent Casey The writer is Senior WASH Manager – Water, WaterAid UK LONDON (IDN) – WaterAid’s newly released water security research has uncovered an alarming lack of global governance and grave mismanagement of the world’s precious groundwater reserves, needlessly putting millions of lives at risk. Hundreds of millions of people rely on groundwater […]
The Need to Engage Youth Social Entrepreneurs to Accelerate the SDGs
Viewpoint by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Ms. Alisjahbana, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was Professor of Economics at Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia. BANGKOK (IDN) – This year, the United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary – a milestone of extraordinary economic and social progress […]
Win or Lose, Trump Is Africa’s Dangerous Example
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview magazine based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) – If Donald J. Trump were president of Wakanda on the eve of an election, that country would have received several warnings from the US State Department on the need for free and fair polls, […]
The Politicization of the United States Supreme Court
An affront to the Independence of the Judiciary and American Democracy Viewpoint by Somar Wijayadasa* NEW YORK (IDN) – The United States Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Despite the partisan rancor, Barrett’s confirmation was a forgone conclusion. The Court now has a conservative […]