By the Group of Least Developed Countries BAKU, Azerbaijan | 24 November 2024 (IDN) — The Group of world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs) on Climate Change is outraged and deeply hurt by the outcome of COP29. “Once again, the countries most responsible for the climate crisis have failed us. We leave Baku without an ambitious […]
COP29 Ends with “Atrocious” New Climate Finance Goal
By the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) BAKU, Azerbaijan | 24 November 2024 (IDN) —The 29th UN Climate Conference (COP29) concluded 23 November, with an atrocious new climate finance goal of $300 billion, after wealthy nations refused to pay up in line with their legal obligations to provide sufficient climate finance to the Global […]
Volkswagen: Is a German Industrial Myth Coming to an End?
By Frédéric Fréry* The Conversation published this article under a Creative Commons licence. PARIS | 23 November 2024 (IDN) — In late October 2024, Volkswagen’s works council announced that the group’s management was considering closing three factories in Germany, which would lead to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs and a general salary […]
What Trump’s Return to Power Implies for the EU and the Balkans
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 22 November 2024 (IDN) — The return of Trump to the United States presidency raises legitimate concerns for both the European Union and the Balkans. These concerns primarily revolve around national dynamics, economic implications, and the solidification of nationalist attitudes and inter-political combustion within the Balkan states It […]
Criminal Court Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu Implies Indicment of US Complicity
By Jeffrey D. Sachs* This article was published in Common Dreams and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK | 21 November 2024 (IDN) — It’s official now. America’s closest ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one accorded more than 50 standing ovations in Congress just months ago, is under indictment by […]
Ukraine War: UN Peace Forces as Part of a Comprehensive Peace Deal?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 20 November 2024 (IDN) — To its credit the Soviet Union and its successor state, Russia, has long supported UN peacekeeping, a practice that originated in 1960 in the time of UN Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who evolved the concept during the great Congolese civil war when it was in […]
Ukraine War: The Biden ATACMS Decision Ends All Negotiation Possibilities
By Stepehen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 19 November 2024 (IDN) — Joe Biden has got Donald Trump out of a bind. In his Presidential campaign Trump claimed he could quickly bring an end to the Ukraine war and force a […]
USA: Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous Secretary of State
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 18 November 2024 (IDN) — Of all Trump’s choices for his foreign policy team, Marco Rubio is the least controversial to the neoconservative foreign policy establishment in Washington, and the most certain to provide continuity with all that is wrong with U.S. foreign policy, […]
South Korea: Best Off Balancing Deterrence and Diplomacy with The North
By Rachel Minyong Lee* WASHINGTON. D:C. | 17 November 2024 (IDN) — Unification is a perennial topic of interest among Korea watchers, but it has been particularly popular — and confusing — in recent months, with North and South Korea each sending diametrically opposed signals. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol delivered a rare speech dedicated to unification […]
COP29: Focus on Food Systems
By Danielle Nierenberg* BAKU, Azerbaijan | 17 November 2024 (IDN) — We talk a lot about storytelling here at Food Tank, and for good reason: The stories we tell matter. They shape how we approach interacting with our neighbors, transforming systems, and building a better world. The question of who tells our stories matters, too! […]