Bolton’s Book Fires Blanks at the Trump Administration

Viewpoint by Charlotte Munns Charlotte Munns is a London-based freelance writer who has specialized in English Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University, New York LONDON (IDN) – John Bolton’s ‘The Room Where It Happened’ opens with a bizarre epigraph touting the British triumph over Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo. To liken Bolton’s […]

Prelude to a China-India Strategic Showdown?

Viewpoint by PS Suryanarayana* This article first appeared on East Asia Forum on 5 July 2020. You might also like to read a related article: Cultural Wisdom Might Help Resolve India-China Conflict SINGAPORE (IDN) – Perpetual border tensions between Asia’s biggest neighbours turned ominous in the harsh Himalayan terrain of the Galwan Valley in the […]

Will Trump Go, If He Loses?

Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview magazine based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) – After three and a half years of his presidency, US President Donald Trump appears to have exhausted all surprises in the bag, except, of course, the next one. And that next one could be […]

Malthus Revisited: Close Relationship between Population and Environment

Viewpoint by John Scales Avery* COPENHAGEN (IDN) – The total human population and economy have imposed excessive weight on the global environment, as discussed in my new book circulated and freely downloadable from http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Malthus-Revisited-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf Thomas Rpbert Malthus’ “Essay on The Principle of Population”, the first edition of which was published in 1798, was one of […]

ARCTIC: Protecting the Sacred Place Where Life Begins

Viewpoint by Nick Engelfried* BELLINGHAM, Washington (IDN) – As the Trump administration neared the end of its first year in office in 2017, it seemed environmental activists had lost one of the most hard-fought battles in the movement’s history. Thanks to a last-minute manoeuvre by Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Congressional Republicans succeeded in passing legislation […]

An Illuminating Farmer-to-Farmer Story in Morocco

Viewpoint by Yossef Ben-Meir The writer, Dr Yossef Ben-Meir, is a sociologist and president of the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) in Morocco. MARRAKECH (IDN) – Bill Nichols served as a volunteer consultant to the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) through the Farmer-to-Farmer Program (F2F) for two weeks in January 2020. Originally from New Mexico, now residing […]

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