By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA | 4 November 2023 (IDN) — Former vice president and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said on 30 October that Nigeria was the bigger loser in the Supreme Court decision on 26 October […]
Opinion: Endangered and Dangerous Israel, Endangering Jews
By Abba A. Solomon* SEATTLE, Washington | 2 November 2023 (IDN) — Today’s siege of Gaza is the latest iteration of a more than century-long effort to instill a controlling fear of, and “respect” for, Jews in the non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine. In the 20th century, the growing Zionist community in Palestine was, in the […]
COP28, Peace and the Pacific Islands
By Volker Boege* Toda Peace Institute issued this article, and it is being republished with their permission. BRISBANE, Australia | 1 November 2023 (IDN) — COP28 (the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) takes place from 30 November to 12 December in Dubai. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres […]
Israel Can Turn Carnage into Peace
By Jeffrey D. Sachs* This article was published in Common Dreams and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK | 1 November 2023 (IDN) — Israel is running out of time to save Israel is running out of time to save itself—not from Hamas, which lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily, but […]
The US Foreign Policy Elite Leans Towards War
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 31 October 2023 (IDN) — At last, a book that attacks the “Blob” and holes it below the water line. Whether it can sink it is another matter. I’m talking about a book published by Harvard Professor of International Affairs Stephen Walt, “America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Hell […]
Africa’s Unique Path: Navigating the New Cold War
By Daniel Haile KILLEEN, Texas, USA | 30 October 2023 (IDN) — The African continent must redefine its global position amidst the rivalry between the United States and China. Renewed economic, political, and military competition should not dissuade African states from forging their economic and political development path. While the previous Cold War was indeed […]
Zionism– Apartheid and Racism Morphing into Ethnic Cleaning and Genocide? – Part 2
By Seevali Abeysekera LONDON | 28 October 2023 (IDN) — Basic Law, also known as Nations Law—this apartheid law states that national rights in Israel belongs ONLY to the Jewish people. This was in effect the founding principle in which “the Jewish state” was established. Military law applies to Palestinians living in the occupied territories […]
Zionism — Apartheid and Racism Morphing into Ethnic Cleaning and Genocide? – Part 1
By Seevali Abeysekera* LONDON | 28 October 2023 (IDN) — The barbaric murderous attack on Israel by HAMAS and the equally barbaric, callous and murderous response by Israel has made the world recoil in horror at the complete disregard for innocent human lives by both Hamas and Israel. HAMAS is a brutal Islamist organisation, if […]
Israel-Palestine: India’s Surprising Change of Course
While many countries of the Global South stand by the Palestinians, India is on Israel’s side. Why? By Herbert Wulf* BONN | 27 October 2023 (IDN) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement immediately after the Hamas attack left no room for ambiguity: We are ‘deeply shocked by the news of the terrorist attack in Israel […]
UN Rapporteur Bashes Eritrean Defence Forces for Atrocities in Tigray
BRUSSELS | 27 October 2023 (IDN) — UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, Dr. Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, has expressed “great concern” that almost a year after the signature of the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA) between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), “Eritrean families continue to […]