By Uriel Araujo* BRASILIA | 13 June 2024 (IDN) — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is planning to install a permanent special envoy to Kyiv as a new envoy post. This has to do with “institutionalizing” some of “the bilateral support that has flowed to Ukraine”, says US ambassador to Kyiv, Julianne Smith. At […]
Far Right Sweeps European Elections
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark* MELBOURNE, Australia | 13 June 2024 (IDN) — The EU elections over 6 to 9 June have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that the right in question is reliably homogeneous in any sense, nor hoping for a single theme of triumph. A […]
Resignation of Gantz from War Cabinet Will Have Serious Implications on The War
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 12 June 2024 (IDN) — The leader of the National Unity party, Benny Gantz, who resigned from the war cabinet, may well force Netanyahu’s hand to make a decision that he has avoided for months. He must decide who will govern Gaza ‘The Day After,’ following the end of […]
Russia: A Window to Europe Becomes a Gateway to Asia
By Yakov M. Rabkin* This article was originally published on Pressenza. MONTREAL, Canada | 12 June 2024 (IDN) — There has been ample coverage of a marathon press conference held by Vladimir Putin for heads of foreign and Russian press agencies earlier this month. Predictably, most attention was drawn to his answer to a British […]
Is Democracy in Crisis or On the Way out?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 11 June 2024 (IDN) — Is democracy in decline? If you talk about the quality of democracy the answer is clearly yes. The US, the world’s first and most important democracy—although at the beginning a limited democracy for white men only—is in trouble. Ex-President Donald Trump has brought old […]
The Absence — and Presence— of Daniel Ellsberg: A Year After His Death, He’s Still with Us
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO | 11 June 2024 (IDN) — On a warm evening almost a decade ago, I sat under the stars with Daniel Ellsberg while he talked about nuclear war with alarming intensity. He was most of the way through writing his last and most important book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of […]
How Can Putin Avoid Nuclear War? By Being a Little Crazier?
By Mike Whitney* This article was originally published on The Unz Review. WASHINGTION STATE | 9 June 2024 (IDN) — President Putin’s press conference on 28 May in Uzbekistan might have been the most unusual and extraordinary event in his 24-year political career. After addressing the Constitutional issues surrounding Ukrainian President Zelensky’s decision to remain […]
Prince Henry of Portugal—The Forerunner of Globalization
By Jan Servaes LAGOS, Portugal | 8 June 2024 (IDN) — We all know that when Christopher Columbus landed in ‘America’ in 1492, he thought it was India. Much less is known about the Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama who was the first to reach the real India in 1498. This ‘discovery’ was due to […]
Why Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP and author of the new book Writing for Media and Monetising It. ABUJA | 7 June 2024 (IDN) — I’m opposed to minimum wage. And I know I’m saying this at the risk of losing readers. The minimum wage hurts the poor and vulnerable in whose […]
Indians Reject Majoritarian Hindu Politics Though Modi Returns to Power
By Bharat Bhushan* NEW DELHI | 6 June 2024 (IDN) — Despite his reluctance to concede defeat, the results of the Indian general election are a major setback for outgoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His party, the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), has failed to secure a majority on its own. The BJP has heavily lost […]