By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | PRETORIA | 18 December 2023 (IDN) — The historic African National Congress, leader of the decades-old struggle against apartheid, governing party of the Republic of South Africa since 1994, is having a family feud. Deep divisions are coming out into the open, as when former South […]
U.K. Plans Deportations to Rwanda – In Violation of British Law
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 18 December 2023 (IDN) — While UK officials debate the wisdom of sending immigrants seeking asylum to Rwanda, they do so despite a decision rendered last month by the British Supreme Court finding the scheme unlawful because Rwanda is not a safe third country and migrants […]
Sheikh Hasina Has Steered Bangladesh Through Formidable Challenges
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury DHAKA | 17 December 2023 (IDN) — Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina emerges as a beacon of fortitude, foresight, and resolute determination in the intricate tapestry of global leadership. Her tenure as the longest-serving female Prime Minister in any Muslim nation embodies her endurance and profound impact on Bangladesh’s transformation […]
Are Small Modular Reactors Harbingers of Nuclear Renaissance?
By Leonam dos Santos Guimarâes *The writer is a nuclear and naval engineer (Ph.D.) and a member of the Brazilian National Academy of Engineering. CEO of Eletronuclear S.A. Coordinator, Brazilian Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program. RIO DE JANEIRO | 17 December 2023 (IDN) — The new generation of small modular reactors (SMR) is expected to provide […]
The Suicidal Fallout of a Nuclear Attack in the Middle East
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 16 December 2023 (IDN) — When a junior minister proposed dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza as “one way of dealing with the threat of Hamas”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instantly shot down the proposal and took the unusual step of suspending the politically far-right minister. Netanyahu’s swift […]
Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCSCO 15 December 2023 (IDN) — Top American officials in the “national security” establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg risked decades in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers to the world. During […]
The Current Netanyahu-Led Government Was Born in Sin
By Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK 15 December 2023 (IDN) — From the first day the current Netanyahu-led coalition government was formed, it was preoccupied with its corrupt domestic agenda and perilously intensified the conflict with the Palestinians, and prompted Hamas to commit the unfathomable savage butchery of 1,200 Israelis The unspeakable savagery that Hamas […]
Iran Deal Off the Table as Nuclear Tensions Rise
By Kelsey Davenport The writer is the director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association (ACA). This article first appeared in ‘Arms Control Now’ of the ACA and is being reproduced with their permission. WASHINGTON, D.C. | 14 December 2023 (IDN) — A top U.S. official said that restoring the 2015 nuclear deal with […]
Exposed—The Callous Inhumanity of ‘Ertez Yisrael’
By Seevali Abeysekera* LONDON | 14 December 2023 (IDN) — When on 7 October, Hamas fighters broke out of the open-air prison called Gaza and breached the previously impregnable border that Israel had built in order to suffocate the Palestinians, little did the world realise that within a few short weeks, Israel would finally reveal […]
COP28: Little to Celebrate, More to Lament
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 13 December 2023 (IDN) — When the much-ballyhooed climate change “conference of parties” —COP28—concluded on December 12 in the bustling Emirati city of Dubai, it reflected an old Greek proverb: the mountain that laboured to produce a mouse. The London-based Nafkote Dabi, Climate Change Policy Lead at Oxfam International, […]