By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 27 January 2025 (IDN) — Now that the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is in place, with some ongoing hiccups, the question is, will the second phase follow, and what lesson, if any, has Hamas learned following 15 months of horrendous death and destruction? The current first phase […]
From Vietnam to Today: Lessons in Resistance as Trump Takes Office
By Bruce Jay Wasser* CHICAGO, USA | 25 January 2025 (IDN) — The return of Donald Trump to the presidency promises to be a time of significant national division and turmoil. He undoubtedly will pursue policies that reflect international bellicosity and a frightening dedication to xenophobia, misogyny, and intolerance. I take him seriously when he […]
Time to Change Course and the Conversation from Doomsday to Peace Day
By Alice Slater*, Toward Freedom NEW YORK | 24 January 2025 (IDN) — The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, with the advice of Albert Einstein and other scientists from the Manhattan Project who developed the atomic bomb, established a Doomsday Clock, in 1947, to illustrate the annihilating danger the earth is facing since the creation of […]
Trump’s Message from God for Africa
The writer is Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP and author of the new book Writing for Media and Monetising It. ABUJA, Nigeria | 23 January 2025 (IDN) — It’s hard to argue when U.S. President Donald Trump says that God saved him to save America. Not only is a rational argument often suspended or lost when God […]
Carbon Offsetting in Arid Lands Won’t help Fight Climate Change – Great Green Wall Shows Why?
By Jeremy Allouche and Detlef Müller-Mahn* BONN, Germany | 22 January 2025 (IDN) — Carbon offsetting—the practise where businesses or individuals offset their carbon emissions by investing in environmental projects – is expanding from reforestation projects to tree planting in areas with no history of tree cover, such as semi-arid to arid lands, despite the […]
Peace With China Is Far More Important Than Power Over China
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 21 January 2025 (IDN) —The West, the US especially, has got itself into a fretful mood over the rise of China. Quite unnecessarily so. The Chinese growth rate is slowing. As a BBC commentator said recently, reviewing this week’s government-issued statistics, China never will hit double digit growth again. […]
Universities Can Help Catalysing Sustainable Development
By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir* MARRAKECH, Morocco | 21 January 2025 (IDN) — Most of our world is experiencing a time of public discontent that now necessitates accomplishing a better and different driver of renewal for our cities and rural places. Let us consider a new approach, rooted in a long-held understanding of the purpose of […]
Aristotle Predicted Trump’s Inauguration
By James E. Jennings* ATLANTA, USA | 19 January 2025 (IDN) — The Athenian philosopher Aristotle predicted Donald Trump’s second inauguration on January 20, 2025 more than 2,300 years ago. How could he do that? It’s amazing but not very complicated. In Book V of Politics Aristotle wrote that democracies in their extreme form—a combination […]
Rabbinical Cease Fire in Gaza: A New Oslo?
By James E. Jennings* ATLANTA, USA | 18 January 2025 (IDN) — The Israelis are very good at two things: bombing the hell out of places all over the Middle East using American planes and bombs and writing complicated “peace” deals that wrap the Palestinians in a morass of words so that peace never comes. […]
Combating Climate Change Strengthens Rather Than Stifles Economic Growth
By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 16 January 2025 (IDN) — Climate change deniers, including President Trump, insist that there is no such thing as climate change and that measures taken to combat it only decrease economic productivity and stifle growth. In fact, the opposite is true; a plethora of scientific evidence suggests that […]