By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Grammy-award winner Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, has picked a smoking topic for his latest record dubbed “Whiskey”. “Port Harcourt residents dem no dey breathe fresh air, my people! When you wake up in the morning, you cough black soot,” the song begins.
Bangladesh’s New Mega-Infrastructure to Impact Ruling Party’s Popularity
By Bahauddin Foizee DHAKA (IDN) — A historic infrastructure milestone for Bangladesh and now the longest bridge of the country, the newly-built Padma Multipurpose Bridge would now help grow Bangladesh’s GDP by 1.3% annually. The US$ 3.86 billion worth mega-infrastructure was inaugurated on June 25 and is forecast to increase jobs, service sector activity and […]
Sri Lanka Needs a Balanced Economic and Foreign Policy
Viewpoint by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake * COLOMBO (IDN) — A shortage of exorbitantly privileged American Dollars, the global reserve fiat currency, which is not backed by gold, silver, oil or drugs, is the purported reason for Sri Lanka’s compounding crisis and the international media narrative of ‘famine’ in the country. The financial crisis that has brought […]
Australian PM Slated for Secret Ukraine Visit Amid Floods Back Home
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) — Australia’s new Labour Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, has been criticised on Twitter and some media for secretly making a trip to Ukraine to meet Volodymyr Zelensky and pledge $100 million of military aid. At the same time, thousands of families across Australia were being evacuated from rising flood waters, […]
A New Coalition Issues a Statement on the Crisis in Sri Lanka
Southern Voices to be Heeded: A Call for Debt Justice, Debt Jubilee and Debt Cancellation COLOMBO (IDN) — The Coalition for Economic Democracy in Sri Lanka (CEDSL) is a group of concerned academics, activists, agricultural, fisheries and industrial workers, students, businesspersons, trade unionists, and professionals based ‘in country’ and overseas, including the diaspora, who uphold […]
Kenyan Frontrunner in Upcoming Poll Taps Woman Justice as Running Mate
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | NAIROBI (IDN) — The former prime minister and a frontrunner in the August 9 presidential election, Raila Odinga, has tapped Martha Wangari Karua, a former justice and constitutional affairs minister, as his running mate—making her the first woman in Kenya to run on a major political […]
Asia Pacific Peace Groups Vow to Oppose US-Incited Impending War
By Devinder Kumar MANILA (IDN) — Peace advocates from Japan, Australia, India, South Korea, and the Philippines, gathered to manifest their unity to oppose all kinds of “imperialist aggression” in the region, have in a global press conference held in Manila on June 24, called for just peace as they sounded the alarm on the […]
Tourism in Asia Hard Hit by Three Factors
Ukraine War and Chinese Lockdowns Add Fuel to COVID’s Devastating Blow Analysis by Mohan Srilal COLOMBO (IDN) — The COVID-19 pandemic dealt a devastating blow to tourism across Asia that has been a driving force of economic growth, particularly in countries like Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and Indonesia. Today there’s a trifecta of impacts on […]
Famine is a Policy Choice: The Afterlife of Covid, Institutional decay, and Privatization—Part 2
This is the second in a series of two articles. Click here for Part 1 COLOMBO (IDN) — What was never mentioned in connection with power cuts and soaring fuel and energy prices was the privatization of sale of the Yugadanavi power plant to an American New Fortress company in a corrupt mid-night deal in […]
Famine Is a Policy Choice: IMF Talks, Geopolitics and Disaster Capitalism—Part 1
Viewpoint by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake * This is the first in a series of two articles. Them belly full but we hungry A hungry mob is an angry mob A rain a-fall but the dirt, it tough A pot a-cook but the food no ‘nough A hungry man is an angry man — Bob Marley and […]