By Dan Kelley* NORMAL, Illinois USA | 4 February 2025 (IDN) — “There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks,” said Robert F. Kennedy in 1964. Those words resonate today as Congress considers the nomination of his son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for Secretary of Health […]
Sri Lanka: Facades of Independence and Masks of Conquest
Of ‘GLADIO’ Operations, Raj Nostalgia History and Literary Festivals By Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake* COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | 3 February 2025 (IDN) — Independence has been a long mirage in geostrategic Ceylon / Sri Lanka, where history seems to repeat itself as tragedy and farce in equal measure. This week, the geostrategic Indian Ocean island is set […]
If Trump Plays It Right, He Can Get the Russians Out of Ukraine
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 2 February 2025 (IDN) — The great flaw in ex-president Barack Obama’s record was his policy towards Russia. Going against everything he had said and written about before he became president, one action after another antagonised the Russians—his early proclamation that he wanted Georgia and Ukraine in Nato, his […]
UNGA President Urges Member States to Commit to Security Council Reform
By J Nastranis NEW YORK | 2 February 2025 (IDN) — UN General Assembly President Philemon Yang has in an exclusive interview with India’s leading news agency PTI called on all member states to “engage actively” and commit to reform, including of the Security Council. Yang, who is set to travel to India from February […]
Syria Should Realise That Only Way Forward Is Through Talks
By Manish Rai* SYDNEY | 1 February 2025 (IDN) — Turkey’s proxy groups like the Syrian National Army (SNA) which is also part of a coalition of Syrian opposition groups led by Hayat Taheer Al-Sham (HTS) have been attacking the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in North Syrian since December 2024. In particular, fierce fighting […]
Venezuela’s Maduro Crowned President for 3rd Term: Will Guyana’s Borders Face Increased Incursions?
By P.I. Gomes The writer is former Secretary-General, Organisation of African, Caribbean & Pacific States (OACPS), Brussels, Belgium. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago | 31 January 2025 (IDN) — On 10 January 2025, Nicolas Maduro was bestowed with the Presidential sash of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela granting him a third 6-year term, 2025 […]
Why the World Needs to Listen to Mahatma Gandhi More Than Ever
By Sachin Pilot The writer is former Union Minister of Corporate Affairs and current president of Rajasthan a Congress Committee in the Indian State of Rajasthan. TONK, Rajasthan, India | 31 January 2025 (IDN) — Why should we remember Mahatma Gandhi 77 years after he was assassinated? Because more than ever, his legacy is of […]
Reform Credit Ratings to Fix Africa’s Debt Crisis
By Daniel Cash The writer is Associate Professor at Aston University and Senior Fellow at the UN University Centre for Policy Research NEW YORK | 30 January 2025 (IDN) — Africa is in a debt crisis. On the continent, interest payments on debt have risen by 132% over the past decade. Thirty-two African countries now […]
Musk’s Nazi Salute Is a Shameless Display of Antisemitism
By Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 30 January 2025 (IDN) — No riches can obscure the ugliest manifestation of antisemitism and bigotry that Elon Musk displayed with his Nazi salute following Trump’s inauguration. Musk can send a spaceship to Mars with his fortune, but no money or social platform will erase the well-deserved shame […]
The US Should Not Hold Provocative War Games Near China
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden | 28 January 2025 (IDN) — When Donald Trump was last elected as president his secretary of defence, Jim Mattis, declared a new era: “There has been a return of great power competition……great power competition- not terrorism- is now the primary focus of US security”. In the then new national […]