Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 27 September 2024 (IDN) — In last week’s article entitled “The Four Psychological Dimensions Behind Hamas’ Attack and Israel’s Retaliation,” I explored how the historical, religious, ideological, and humanitarian dimensions have impacted the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which culminated with the most violent conflagration since Israel’s creation in 1948. During this […]
Liquid Assets-Africa: Unlocking Water Potential for Growth
By Busani Bafana NAIROBI | 23 September 2024 (IDN) — Africa stands on the edge of a severe water crisis, threatening its ability to meet critical Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new report reveals. Despite the continent’s vast water resources, poor management, overexploitation, and the escalating effects of climate change are fueling widespread water insecurity. […]
South Asian Workers in Europe Face Harrowing Working Conditions
By Aju John* BERLIN | 22 September 2024 (IDN) — On 19 June of this year, an agricultural labourer from India named Satnam Singh lost his life on a melon farm in Latina, Italy. He had been crushed by a machine that severed one of his arms and fractured his legs — horrific injuries, but, […]
The Four Psychological Dimensions Behind Hamas’ Attack and Israel’s Retaliation
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 20 September 2024 (IDN) — Hamas’ attack and Israel’s retaliatory war are the dire by-products of decades-long psychological impediments—historical, ideological, religious, and humanitarian—that have hindered any progress toward a solution while making the conflict ever more intractable Hamas’s savage October 7 attack on Israel and the latter’s massive retaliatory […]
Can the World Save Palestine from US-Israeli Genocide?
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies* NEW YORK | 17 September 2024 (IDN) — On September 18, the UN General Assembly is scheduled to debate and vote on a resolution calling on Israel to end “its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within six months. Given that the General Assembly, unlike the […]
The Five Front Escalation in West Asia
Israeli Settler Colonialism and Expansionism Threaten an All-Out War By Anuradha Chenoy* This article was published in Economic&Political Weekly (Vol. 59, Issue No. 37, 14 Sep. 2024 2024) and is being republished with the author‘s permission. NEW DELHI | 14 September 2024 (IDN) — There is a fault line under Israel that promises to crack […]
Chinese Financing for African Renewables Rebounds After Two-Year Lull
By Anika Patel* BEIJING | 13 September 2024 (IDN) — New data reveals a rebound in Chinese financing of renewable energy projects in Africa in 2023, following a lull over the past few years. Climate cooperation between China and Africa was a key focus of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), which concluded on 6 […]
Ongoing Gaza War Aggravating Economic Crisis in Occupied Palestinian Territory
By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA | 12 September 2024 (IDN) — A comprehensive report by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has urged immediate international intervention to stabilize the economy of Gaza and support peace efforts. The report describes the economic destruction wrought to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) in the aftermath of the Israeli military operation […]
Undebatable: What Harris and Trump Could Not Say About Israel and Gaza
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO | 11 September 2024 (IDN) — Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page—“Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate”— was accurate enough. But despite the good news for people understandably eager for […]
Macbeth in Palestine: Murder Most Foul Hath Brok Ope
By James E. Jennings ATLANTA, USA | 9 September 2024 (IDN) — “Horror, horror, horror! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope!” That’s how William Shakespeare described the foul act of murder in his classic play Macbeth. The news September 6 of the killing of a 26-year-old Turkish-American woman named Aysenur Ezgi by an Israeli soldier […]