By Alice Slater* This article was published in the Spring 2023 Edition of Peace Planet News and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK, 5 April 2023 (IDN) — Recent alarming reports state that the UK is prepared to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium ammunition in the ongoing slaughter in Ukraine. These lethally […]
Habitability and Relational Security
By John Campbell and Carol Farbotko* This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. TOKYO, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — Notions of security have played a significant role in climate change impacts and adaptation research and policy development. Various aspects of security have been called upon such […]
Whom Should We Blame for A Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — If nuclear war does break out between India and Pakistan, they will only have themselves to blame. Since the early 1970s they have been walking along the unmarked path that leads to nuclear holocaust and enough people both within and without have told them how […]
Sri Lanka: Bailed Out, Boxed In
By Neville de Silva* LONDON, 2 April 2023 (IDN) — That was irony surely. Last April Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt payments for the first time in 75 years and declared itself bankrupt. It was the ignominious result of accumulated loans taken by leaders of successive governments for their lavish spending on wasteful projects […]
Viewpoint: Sri Lanka’s IMF “Bail Out” Suits US Geo-Political Interests
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY, 1 April 2023 (IDN) — On March 21, when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) made a long-awaited official announcement that it has approved a $3 billion “bailout” for Sri Lanka, President Ranil Wickremasinghe’s supporters lighted firecrackers to welcome the news. But local sceptics doubt whether the IMF is really bailing out […]
Reverse the Slide to Violence Through Confidence Building
By René Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens GENEVA, 31 March 2023 (IDN) — With U.S. and Chinese military engaged near Taiwan, a miscalculation could lead to armed violence. The armed conflict in Ukraine has heightened the debate on the possibility of armed conflict between China and Taiwan. Tensions between the two Korean states remain […]
Netanyahu’s Reality Check Is Overdue
By Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK, 31 March 2023 (IDN) — The brief indirect exchange of statements between President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu, in connection with the latter’s blind determination to execute a de facto coup d’état under the guise of judicial reforms, demonstrates how dangerously delusional Netanyahu has become. For Netanyahu to forget […]
China Viewed Through American Glasses
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS, 28 March 2023 (IDN) — I first watched Mike Chinoy during the so-called Tiananmen ‘revolt‘ in 1989 when he and ‘anchor’ Bernard Shaw reported live from the roof terrace of the Peking Hotel for the relatively new and ambitious American TV channel CNN of what was happening on Tiananmen Square.
Immigration Into Europe Has to Slow Down
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden, 28 March 2023 (IDN) — “The truth is awful things are now happening. Last year there were race riots in Oldham in the old industrial revolution heartland of England. This year it is the burning of Jewish synagogues in Marseilles by Muslim youths angry at the Israeli response to the […]
Is The New Agreement a Turning Point for Serbia and Kosovo?
By Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK, 26 March 2023 (IDN) — The recent verbal agreement reached between Serbia and Kosovo in Ohrid, North Macedonia, obviously represents a positive development in the process of normalization between the two countries. There are however many obstacles and a considerable number of ambiguities that will make it difficult to […]