John Avery interviews David Krieger COPENHAGEN | SANTA BARBARA, CA (IDN) – One of the five “M’s” can trigger a nuclear war any time: malice, madness, mistake, miscalculation and manipulation. “Of these five, only malice is subject to possibly being prevented by nuclear deterrence and of this there is no certainty. But nuclear deterrence (threat […]
Silk Road: A Debt ‘Trap’ or an Opportunity for the West Joining China to Assist Developing Countries?
By Dr. Palitha Kohona The author is former Foreign Secretary and former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations. COLOMBO (IDN) – “Any conflict between the U.S. and China, including a trade war, would do irreparable damage to both, not to mention the rest of the world. However, the two giants have a unique opportunity […]
It is High Time for the U.S. and Russia to Get Off the Treadmill to Catastrophe
Viewpoint by Daryl G. Kimball The author is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. He wrote this editorial for the December issue of Arms Control Today. WASHINGTON, DC (IDN-INPS) – Earlier this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that “[t]he Cold War is back…but with a difference. The mechanisms and the safeguards to manage […]
China Not Interested In Any ‘Cold War’
Viewpoint by Shen Dingli The author is a professor at the Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. This article first appeared on China Daily on 4 December 2018. SHANGHAI (IDN-INPS) – Of late, there has been talk of and concern over a possible “Cold War” between the United States and China. The argument goes […]
Significant Progress in Ending All War
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – “We need jaw jaw not war war,” said Winston Churchill rather hypocritically. Still, he would be glad to see that the number of wars around the world has fallen dramatically since the end of the Second World War, despite the wars in Korea, Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, […]
UN Chief Calls for Katowice to Lay Down Ground Rules for the Paris Agreement
By António Guterres Following are extensive excerpts from the UN Secretary-General’s remarks at the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP14) from December 2-14 in Katowice, Poland. KATOWICE (IDN-INPS) – We are in trouble. We are in deep trouble with climate change. Climate change is running faster than we are and we must […]
A Moment of Reckoning for Decentralisation in Morocco
Viewpoint by Yossef Ben-Meir Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir is a sociologist and Founder President of the High Atlas Foundation, based in Marrakech, Morocco, working to establish livelihood advancement projects – all of which are identified and managed by local communities, in partnership with the public, private and civil sectors. MARRAKECH (IDN) – Morocco’s parliament is currently […]
U.S. Senate Vote on Yemen Rebukes Trump and Saudis
Viewpoint by Mark Weisbrot This article was published by The Guardian on November 30, 2018. Mark Weisbrot is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and the president of Just Foreign Policy. He is also the author of “Failed: What the ‘Experts’ Got Wrong About the Global Economy” (2015, Oxford University Press). You can […]
AEWA – International Environmental Cooperation At Its Best
Viewpoint by Jacques Trouvilliez Internationalism seems to be falling out of vogue, but Jacques Trouvilliez, Executive Secretary of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA), holds his organization up as an example of how conservation objectives are being effectively achieved through cross-continental cooperation. BONN (IDN) – The Agreement on the Conservation of […]
Keeping Saudi Arabia Nuclear-Free
Viewpoint by Joseph Gerson The writer is President of the Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security and author of ‘Empire and the Bomb’. NEW YORK (IDN) – There is growing concern over the ruthless Crown Prince’s campaign to purchase $80 billion of U.S. nuclear power plant designs and technologies from the U.S. and his […]