Viewpoint by Michele Nobile* The author wrote this as a reaction to the article by Roberto Savio entitled ‘Ten Reflections on the Crisis‘ which was published by IDN on 8 April 2018. – The Editor ROME (IDN) – The reflections of Roberto Savio touch problems which have roots that are not recent and have become […]
Lula da Silva – Condemned by the Courts, Absolved by History
Viewpoint by Boaventura de Sousa Santos* COIMBRA, Portugal (IDN) – The Lula da Silva case blatantly shows that something is rotten in the Brazilian judicial system. It brings to the fore procedures and practices that are incompatible with the basic principles and guarantees of democracy and the rule of law, in a way that needs to […]
Sending Brazil’s Lula To Jail Is Absurd
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – President Barack Obama said that the then president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, was “the most popular president on earth”. Now, while fighting for a new term in office, he has been brought low, imprisoned for 12 years for corruption. He is still the most […]
Ten Reflections on the Crisis
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio The writer is publisher of Other News, an eminent proponent of “information that markets eliminate” 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 […]
UNGA President Commends the Non-Aligned Movement
By Miroslav Lajčák Miroslav Lajčák is President of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly. Following is a slightly abridged version of his Statement at Mid-Term Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement comprising 120 members, in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 5 April 2018. – The Editor. BAKU (IDN-INPS) – I would like to . . […]
U.S. Congress Should Prevent Saudis from Going Nuclear
By Kingston Reif, Daryl G. Kimball and Kelsey Davenport Kingston Reif is Director for Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy and Daryl G. Kimball is Executive Director of the Arms Control Association. Kelsey Davenport is the Association’s Director for Nonproliferation Policy. This article appeared as Issue Brief on April 5, 2018 with the caption ‘The Risks […]
No Easy Answer To The Knife That Killed Arnaud Beltrame
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Personally I’m a coward. I’m unlikely ever to be a hero. (I have rescued on different occasions three young children from drowning, but I didn’t risk my life.) I certainly would never have done what Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, the French policeman, did. He asked the terrorist who […]
How Francis Could Become to be Seen as One of the Greatest of all Popes
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – This present pope – Francis – is probably the most powerful man in the world, in the round. Stalin once asked when confronted with the argument about the Pope’s reach and influence, replied, “How many divisions has the pope got?” He missed the point. The pope does […]
In 2018, Who Will Speak Up for Peace in the Korean Peninsula?
By Rick Wayman Rick Wayman is Programs Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF). In April 2016, he received the ‘Activist of the Year’ award from the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) for “dynamic leadership in bringing the Marshall Islanders’ Nuclear Zero litigation to world attention, activating the next generation of peace leaders, and […]
Trump Plans a Treaty with North Korea, Abandon One with Iran
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Like it not we find that we’re having to get used to the paradoxes, contradictions and confusions of the Trump era. None is more apparent than his attack on the landmark Iran de-nuclearisation agreement, fashioned by the Obama Administration and the Iranian government. President Donald Trump wants […]