Viewpoint by Sonali Kolhatkar This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a television and radio show that airs on Free Speech TV and Pacifica stations. LOS ANGELES (IDN) — Brazil’s first round of […]
The West Is Exposing Itself to Double Standards by Weaponizing Human Rights
Viewpoint by Kalinga Seneviratne BANGKOK (IDN) — The recently concluded 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva exposed once again the double standards of the global human rights agenda. West’s failure to get a resolution adopted at the UNHRC on October 6 on further investigation into the violation of human […]
Putin’s War in Ukraine Even More Senseless Than World War I
Viewpoint by Paul Goble Eurasia Review issued this article. OREGON, USA (IDN) — There is nearly universal consensus that World War I was the most senseless conflict in modern times, Yury Yarym-Agayev says; but in fact, Putin’s war in Ukraine is even more senseless than that war of a century ago in that none of […]
Ukrainian Organization Does Not Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize
Viewpoint by Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin* COUNTERCURRENTS issued this article on October 7, 2022. NEW YORK (IDN) — In what was described as a harsh rebuke of Russia, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Ukrainian human rights organization ‘Center for Civil Liberties’, along with Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski and […]
Pacific Leaders Urge Re-Focus on Climate Emergency
Viewpoint by Volker Boege Toda Peace Institute issued this article, and it is being republished with their permission. BRISBANE, Australia (IDN) — At the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2022, the leaders of the small island—or ‘big ocean’—countries in the Pacific called for a re-focus on the global climate emergency. […]
Africa Would Do Well to Stop Playing with Fire
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — There is a fire in Ouagadougou. And who’s to say where it’s catching next? For the second time in eight months, the military in Burkina Faso struck in a palace coup that removed military leader […]
Doubts Whether Putin Can Defeat Ukraine and Maintain Power in Moscow
Viewpoint by John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF), a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, issued this article on September 28, 2022. WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) — When a country starts casting around for 60-year-old veterans to send to the front, you know something’s wrong. All hands don’t go on deck unless the ship […]
Lessons of the Cambodian-UN War Crimes Trials
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Finally, finally, the over-long, fifteen-year-long trials of the leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge leadership of Cambodia are concluded. It has been water on stone, but the conclusion is the stone has cracked. The New York Times reported on September 22: “The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts […]
Sri Lanka: Nation Struggles as Noose Tightens
This article was issued by Asian Affairs (London). Viewpoint by Neville de Silva* LONDON (IDN) — Time is running out. Even as this is written, Sri Lanka is desperately canvassing support from within the 47-member UN Human Rights Council (HRC) now meeting in Geneva, to stave off a tougher and hard-hitting resolution that castigates the […]
Indigenous Women Fighting Back for A Future Free of Violence
By Romeo Jara* MANILA (IDN) — Fifteen years and almost nothing much has changed. This is the result of an Amnesty International (AI) report titled “The Never-Ending Maze” about sexual violence towards Indigenous women in the United States as shared by AI USA’s Tarah Demant. On September 14, the International IPMSDL hosted the online discussion […]