By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 22 January 2024 (IDN) — Three officers who received suspended jail sentences over their violent assault of a French Black man are symbols of out-of-control racist police violence tolerated by the government in France. The officers were convicted on 19 January of “voluntary violence” towards the […]
Ghana Blocks Student Confab of the ‘Nkrumahs of Africa’
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | ACCRA | 22 January 2024 (IDN) — Ghana’s political leaders are facing heat for their last-minute cancellation of a conference of students and populist leaders, one activist called “the Nkrumahs of Africa.” After receiving news of the last-minute cancellation, hundreds of student leaders, locked out of […]
The West – Morally Bankrupt and Complicit in Ethnic Cleansing – Part 1
By Seevali Abeysekera* LONDON | 20 January 2024 (IDN) —The destruction of Gaza by the modern-day equivalent of a medieval killing machine called the IDF has not only highlighted the absolute barbarity and bloodlust of the state of Israel, but also exposed the grotesque values of its sycophantic acolytes in the West and other parts […]
It Is Time For A Reckoning
Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK | 19 January 2024 (IDN) — My recent article, “Why the Two-State Solution is the Only Viable Option to the Exclusion of Any Other,” solicited many different reactions. It became clear to me that many who read it have succumbed to the pervasive narrative that such a solution is simply […]
How the Gaza War Can Be Big News & Invisible at the Same Time
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO | 19 January 2024 (IDN) — Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the Gaza war, we’re really seeing the war. We are not. What we do routinely […]
Will New Regional Conflicts Accelerate Iran’s Plans to go Nuclear?
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 18 January 2024 (IDN) — The Israeli-Hamas war has ignited a new Middle Eastern regional conflict involving the United States and the Houthis in Yemen, a militant group described as proxies for Iran. The Iranians have long been accused of funding and arming not only the Houthis, but also […]
Gaza War: How South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel Is Shaping Up
By Carlo Aldrovandi* The writer is an Assistant Professor in International Peace Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. DUBLIN | 17 January 2024 (IDN) — Over the past few days, South Africa has made its case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, accusing the Israeli government of committing genocide with its 100-day assault […]
Middle East: Two-State Solution is the Only Viable Option
By Alon Ben-Meir * NEW YORK | 16 January 2024 (IDN) — Although the two-state solution has been all along the only viable option that best serves Israel’s national security and political interests and meets the Palestinians’ national aspiration for statehood, the Israel-Hamas war has only reaffirmed that there is no other option The Israel-Hamas […]
Iran Can Be Belligerent, But It Doesn’t Help to Confront It Constantly
By Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden | 16 January 2024 (IDN) — Of all the present foes of America, it is Iran, which has consistently been, over time, the number one. Since its Islamic Revolution in 1979 that overthrew the secular-minded Shah and supplanted him with a militant, sometimes warlike, Islamic theocracy, it has been America’s […]
Is a “Muscular” India Alienating Neighbours?
Analysis by Kalinga Seneviratne SINGAPORE | 16 January 2024 (IDN) — After returning from a week-long trip to China on January 14, the new Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu told journalists in Male: “We may be small, but that doesn’t give you the licence to bully us”. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind that he […]