Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Russian president Vladimir Putin has been in a benign mood after a perfectly organized World Cup which gave Russians and foreigners the rare freedom to mass in the street. In response the world TV audience has looked at Russia with new eyes. Maybe there’s a new Russia […]
Competitive Diplomacy Under the Trump Administration – Part 2
Viewpoint by Michele Nobile* This is the second of a two-part article which was written before the July 11-12 NATO summit in Brussels – The Editor. ROME (IDN) – It is evident that the reduction or even wiping out of U.S. spending on United Nations agencies is essentially irrelevant from the point of view of […]
Trump-Putin Summit A New Opportunity To Ban The Bomb
By Alice Slater, World BEYOND War The writer serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War. Following is the text of her article first published with the caption Watch Out World: Peace May be Breaking Out!! https://worldbeyondwar.org/watch-out-world-peace-may-be-breaking-out/ NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Less than a week or so before Donald Trump’s groundbreaking meeting planned with […]
A Sense of Urgency Required For Meeting the 2030 Deadline
By António Guterres Following is the text of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Foreword to The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2018 published on 20 June. With just 12 years left to the 2030 deadline, we must inject a sense of urgency, writes Guterres. – The Editor UNITED NATIONS (IDN-INPS) – The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development […]
French President Macron Is Going To Get Things Done
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – At the European summit on June 28-29 the leaders spent most of the time discussing immigration restrictions. Yet the Syrian rush through the Mediterranean is now a trickle. The African migration is down by 95 percent. No wonder that Emmanuel Macron, the young (40) president of France, […]
NPT Proves To Be An Exercise In Bad Faith As It Turns 50
By Alice Slater The writer is the New York representative for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and serves on the Coordinating Committee of World Beyond War. NEW YORK (IDN) – On July 1, the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) turned 50. In that agreement, five nuclear weapons states – the U.S., Russia, UK, France, and […]
79-Nation ACP Exercises Decisive Influence Globally
By Dr. Patrick I. Gomes Following is the text of foreword by Dr. Patrick Ignatius Gomes, the Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), to ‘Striving for People, Planet and Peace – 2018 Report of the Joint Media Project of INPS-SG-IDN’. Prior to taking up the position of ACP SG, he […]
Real Money Crucial for Success of Paris Climate Pact
By Harjeet Singh The writer is Global Lead on Climate Change at ActionAid International and is based in New Delhi. The commitment and sincerity of developed countries to provide climate finance will determine whether the Paris Agreement will succeed in combating climate change, he warns. Views are personal. This article first appeared on ‘India Climate […]
‘Normal’ Sexuality and the Audiovisual Porn Industry
Viewpoint by Marcelo Colussi* Users of pornography users only watch a well-edited video. They do not see what goes on behind the scenes, the girls who are crying and sent out of the recording studio because they cannot stand the violent sexual acts they are asked to take part in. (Shelley Lubben, former porn actress) […]
EU Summit Must Conquer Misleading Immigration Policies
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* The Syrian and African migration that has filled our television screens the last two years is overstated. The massive Syrian flow was a panic attack. Now it has dramatically subsided. There is no reason to think there will be another such great influx from the eastern Mediterranean countries. The African migration […]