Viewpoint by Manish Rai The writer is a columnist for Middle-East and Af-Pak region and Editor ViewsAround, A Geo-Political News Publication. He can be reached at manishraiva@gmail.com. NEW DELHI (IDN) – American forces have started withdrawing their equipment from Syria as part of President Donald Trump’s order in December to pull out from Northwest Syria. […]
Global Heating Poses A Serious Systemic Challenge
Viewpoint by Franz Baumann The following are excerpts from an article first published in the October 2018 issue of ‘International Politics Review’. Dr. Franz Baumann is a visiting professor at New York University and a former UN assistant secretary-general, special adviser on environment and peace operations. He can be reached at franz.baumann@nyu.edu. NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) […]
A New Spectre Is Haunting Europe
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio The writer is publisher of Other News, a vehicle for “voices against the tide”, and founder of IPS-Inter Press Service News Agency. This article is being reproduced courtesy of Other News with the writer’s permission. He can be contacted at utopia@robertosavio.info and his articles and comments can be read on Facebook […]
Folke Bernadotte, A Forgotten Humanitarian With Legendary Will Power
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Many know about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat in Budapest, who led his embassy in a successful attempt to issue “protective passports” to at least 6,000 Hungarian Jews so they could escape the Nazi occupiers and travel to Sweden. He also helped forestall a planned massacre. He […]
Pyongyang And Washington Do Not Speak The Same Language
Viewpoint by Kelsey Davenport The writer is the Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, where she provides research and analysis on the nuclear and missile programs in Iran, North Korea, India, and Pakistan and on nuclear security issues. This article was posted on January 8 on the Association’s website as part of […]
The INF Treaty Crisis Is A Global Security Problem
Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball The author is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. He wrote this editorial for the January-February issue of Arms Control Today. WASHINGTON ; DC (IDN-INPS) – Next month, it is very likely the Trump administration will take the next step toward fulfilling the president’s threat to “terminate” one of […]
Time To Leave The Nuclear Age, Create A Green Planet At Peace
Viewpoint by Medea Benjamin and Alice Slater While Medea Benjamin is codirect or of CODEPINK for Peace and author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic, Alice Slater serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War and is the UN Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace […]
Most Taiwanese Would Not Support A Hong Kong Style Arrangement With Beijing
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Those, like some highly placed people in the U.S. government and Congress, who say it is inevitable that Taiwan with its population of 24 million will one day return as part of mainland China rather as Hong Kong did, have really missed a beat. There is simply […]
An Exceptional Book With A Message Of Hope That Does Not Exist Today
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio* The following is the text of the Foreword to Riccardo Petrella’s In the Name of Humanity, English edition under way of Au nom de l’humanité. L’audace mondiale – Éditions Couleur Livres, 2015. Petrella is an Italian economist, political scientist and a leading figure in the anti-globalisation movement. He is Emeritus Professor […]
Syria Withdrawal Plan Tallies With America’s Wish To Bring Soldiers Home
Viewpoint by Ellen R. Wald The writer is a historian and author of ‘Saudi, Inc.’ She is the president of Transversal Consulting and also teaches Middle East history and policy at Jacksonville University, USA. Twitter: @EnergzdEconomy. This article first appeared on the Arab News on January 2, 2019. JACKSONWILLE, USA (IDN-INPS) – President Donald Trump […]