By Danielle Nierenberg* BAKU, Azerbaijan | 17 November 2024 (IDN) — We talk a lot about storytelling here at Food Tank, and for good reason: The stories we tell matter. They shape how we approach interacting with our neighbors, transforming systems, and building a better world. The question of who tells our stories matters, too! […]
A Fantasy Tale of Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin Encounter
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 16 November 2024 (IDN) — I wrote this column just before Trump won the election for the first time on 8 November 2016. A week ago, I also wrote on Facebook that I thought Trump would win: Trump visits Putin. 25 October 2016. I have a fantasy. Donald Trump […]
USA: As Fascism Looms, Not Hope But Determination Is Needed
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA | 15 November 2024 (IDN) — When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a recent BBC interview, they “argued that in those circumstances the people with economic power in society, the property […]
Opportunities and Challenges of AI for Journalism
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP and the author of Writing for Media and Monetising It. This modified version of AI-Generated Storytelling: Opportunities and Challenges was based on my presentation at the 20th Annual Conference of the NGE on 8 November 2024. ABUJA | 14 November 2024 (IDN) — One year […]
Media’s Adversarial Culture Triggers Geo-Political Tensions, Argues New Book
By Kannan Salazar BANGKOK | 14 November 2024 (IDN) — Today geo-politics drives the news agenda in the Asian region where many countries have seen a dramatic rise in their economic prosperity in the past three decades that have catapulted nations and societies from the ‘third world’ to the ‘first world’ within a generation that […]
Will a Rogues Gallery of Saber-Rattlers under Trump Escalate Biden’s Wars?
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 13 November 2024 (IDN) — When Donald Trump takes office on January 20, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on its neighbors will be put to the test. The choices […]
Ukraine War: Will Biden Succeed in Ensuring US Support?
By Stepehen Bryen* This article was issued by Weapons and Strategy and is being republished with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 13 November 2024 (IDN) — According to Jake Sullivan who heads President Biden’s National Security Council, President Biden will ask Congress for more money for Ukraine. The fate of this request, if it is […]
USA: Stunning Defeat Should Prompt Soul-Searching Among Democrats
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 12 November 2024 (IDN) — The Democrats’ stunning electoral defeat will be debated for months if not years. Recrimination and finger-pointing will abound. The Democrats must search their souls, carefully study what went wrong, and develop a compelling new domestic and foreign policy agenda while cooperating with the Republicans […]
Ocean Climate Crisis: Acidification, Deoxygenation and Warming
By Dr. Kirsten Isensee, Dr. Katherina School, Professor Steve Widdicombe and Jeremy Sterling* PARIS | 11 November 2024 (IDN) — Governments meeting in Baku for the COP29 Climate Summit have many mountains to climb in their quest to raise ambitions and accelerate action. They must not, however, forget about the ocean. Because the blue part […]
A Chabad House in Arugam Bay: Bringing Gaza Home?
By Tisaranee Gunasekara* “Gaza was the first time I held a baby’s brains in my hand. The first of many.” — Dr Mark Perlmutter, orthopaedic and hand surgeon (Open letter from American medical professionals who served in Gaza https://www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct-2-2024) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 10 November 2024 (IDN) — Last December, a group of ultra-religious Israeli soldiers […]