Incredible Obsession With China’s Supposed Malevolence

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) – In Munich at the Security Conference from February 14-16 the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, nailed her anti-Chinese colours to the mast. Despite being a liberal on many issues and the leader of the fight to impeach President Donald Trump, she has joined […]

Making Democratic Socialism Relatable

Viewpoint by Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir The writer is an American sociologist who resides in Marrakech, Morocco. MARRAKECH (IDN) – The phrase “Democratic Socialism” continues to find its way into current national and political discourse of the United States. Vermont Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders embraces the term, while his opponents, both from within his […]

Why the Peace Movement Must Be Intersectional

Viewpoint by Tim Gee* LONDON (IDN) – In 2011, after a racial slur was used on a women’s rights march, writer Flavia Dzodan wrote a blog called, ‘My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit’. The framing was picked up by others, adapting the title to environmentalism and to activism more broadly but […]

How Agri-Business Corporations Influence UN Institutions

Viewpoint by Anuradha Mittal The writer is the founder and executive director of the Oakland Institute. SAN FRANCISCO (IDN) – As Dr. Agnes Kalibata arrived in Rome on February 10, 2020 to meet with Dr. QU Dongyu, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), her appointment as the UN Secretary-General Guterres’ Special Envoy […]

Kazakh Roadmap for LLDCs as 2020-2021 Chair

By Ambassador Kairat Umarov Kazakhstan assumed the chairmanship of the Group of Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) on 8 January for the period 2020-2021. The following are extensive excerpts from the statement of LLDC Chair Ambassador Kairat Umarov, Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations in New York, at the First 2020 Meeting of the […]

COP26 Will Be the Litmus Test of The Paris Agreement

COP25 Ignored Demands for Climate Justice Viewpoint by Mary Church* EDINBURGH (IDN) – The outcomes of the longest ever meeting in the history of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the COP25 negotiations in Madrid – have failed to reflect the urgency of the crisis or any grasp of the real solutions […]

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