By Carol Farbotko and John Campbell* This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. QUEENSLAND, Australia | HAMILTON, New Zealand, 10 March 2023 (IDN) — The risk of atoll uninhabitability in the context of sea level rise is a well-known issue, often simplified to assume an inevitable […]
Israel’s Liberal Supporters Are Taking Their Denial to a New Level
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, 9 March 2023 (IDN) — This week, when the New York Times featured an opinion piece by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, it harmonized with a crescendo of other recent pleas from prominent American supporters of Israel.
Why Sabotage Is a Growing Form of Warfare in Ukraine
By John P. Ruehl This article was produced by Globetrotter. John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributing editor to Strategic Policy and a contributor to several other foreign affairs publications. His book, Budget Superpower: How Russia Challenges the West With an Economy Smaller Than Texas’, was published […]
Jimmy Carter’s Ups and Downs Through Life
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden, 7 March 2023 (IDN) — “The lives of all politicians end in failure”. So said Enoch Powell, a maverick former cabinet minister in the British government. Of recent US presidents, Jimmy Carter has not been alone in being considered “a failure”.
Run Silent! Run Deep! Sink IAEA Safeguards?
By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA, 7 March 2023 (IDN) — Coming up to the eighteen-month mark following the announcement of the AUKUS agreement on the supply of nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs) to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) continues to struggle to deal with the challenge put up by naval nuclear propulsion […]
It’s High Time to Stop the March Towards World War III
By Tony Robinson* This article was published in Pressenza International Press Agency and is being republished with the author’s permission. LONDON, 3 March 2023 (IDN) — In Europe, North America and a few other countries that feed themselves with information from the western media, it can have escaped no one’s attention that we are actually […]
Nigeria’s Elections and the Man Who Thinks He Is “the State”
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA, 3 March 2023 (IDN) — The last thing he wants to hear is that he desires anything other than what is good for Nigeria. Hero of Nigeria’s civil war; a former military president who supervised the first-post-war transition […]
Israel & The Palestinians: The Way Back From The Dark Dead-End Alley
By Alon Ben-Meir* The following is the third instalment in a series of three articles. The first addressed how Israel lost its way, the second dealt with how the Palestinians lost their way. The following article offers a way out of their 75-year-old bloody and perilous conflict. NEW YORK, 2 March 2023 (IDN) — It […]
Sri Lanka: Franchise Raped
By Neville de Silva* LONDON, 01 March 2023 (IDN) — Apocryphal or not, France’s Bourbon king Louis XIV is attributed to have said “l’etat, c’est moi” (I am the State). These words reflect the era of France’s pre-revolution tyranny. Thankfully Sri Lanka has not descended to such state tyranny—not yet, some might say—though signs of […]
Behind The Ninth Anniversary of the Ukraine War
Truths remain obscured by US secrecy and European obsequiousness to US power By Jeffrey D. Sachs* This article was published in Other News and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK, 01 March 2023 (IDN) — We are not at the one-year anniversary of the war, as the Western governments and media claim. […]