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 […]
Young Africa —Could It Change the World?
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 31 October 2023 (IDN) — “By 2050, one in four people on the planet will be African… Early tremors of this seismic change are already registering around the world…. The world is becoming more African.” So opens an in-depth look at our changing world by Irish […]
Vienna Conference Considers Boundaries and Frontiers in Human Trafficking
By Aurora Weiss VIENNA | 29 October 2023 (IDN) — Combatting Trafficking in Human Beings remains a global phenomenon that requires intensive collaboration between governmental and non-governmental entities. Interdisciplinary cooperation, awareness raising, and proactive efforts on national, regional, and international levels are essential in this context. An effective preventive measure is the professional exchange of […]
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 […]
Rising Military Conflicts Result in Over 114 million Refugees
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 26 October 2023 (IDN) — The staggering number of military conflicts worldwide—including the most recent in Gaza—continues to rise, resulting in civilian deaths, devastation of cities and villages, along with millions of refugees and widespread famines and food shortages In a report released on 25 October, the UN refugee […]
Gaza Conflict: The Cauldrons We Make
By Tisaranee Gunasekara* “Do not use our death and our pain to bring the death and pain of other people and other families…” Israeli peace activist Noy Katsman (eulogy for his brother Hayim Katsman murdered by Hamas on October 7) COLOMBO | 25 October 2023 (IDN) — Jewish Currents is a US-based leftwing Jewish magazine. […]
The New EU List of Tax Havens: Much Ado About Nothing
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS | 25 October 2023 (IDN) — The European Finance Ministers recently revised the European list of tax havens. They added Antigua, Barbuda, Belize and Seychelles to the blacklist and removed the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands and the Marshall Islands. The list includes Russia, Panama, and other […]
Zimbabwe Grieves Young Miners Trapped Underground
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | HARARE | 24 October 2023 (IDN) — Dozens of mothers have been sleeping on the floor just outside Bay Horse Mine, hoping for any signs of life of their husbands and sons. When the disaster occurred, the men had been working in an inactive gold mine […]
Hamas Engaged in Mass Murder. Israeli Army is Killing Palestinian Civilians
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO | 24 October 2023 (IDN) — Labels are central to the politics of media. And no label has been more powerful than “terrorist.” A single standard of language should accompany a consistent standard of human rights, which the world desperately needs. “If thought corrupts language,” George Orwell wrote, “language can […]