By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — As Russian nuclear threats keep escalating following the invasion of Ukraine 14 months ago, President Vladimir Putin issued a new warning on March 26: that he plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a close political, economic and military ally of Moscow. “The United […]
Habitability and Relational Security
By John Campbell and Carol Farbotko* This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. TOKYO, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — Notions of security have played a significant role in climate change impacts and adaptation research and policy development. Various aspects of security have been called upon such […]
Whom Should We Blame for A Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan?
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden, 4 April 2023 (IDN) — If nuclear war does break out between India and Pakistan, they will only have themselves to blame. Since the early 1970s they have been walking along the unmarked path that leads to nuclear holocaust and enough people both within and without have told them how […]
Controversial Documentary on Gold Smuggling in Zimbabwe Hits the Air Waves
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — It’s the biggest criminal conspiracy you’ve never heard of. “Gold Mafia—The Laundry Service”—is a shocking tale of corruption in high places, illicit gold smuggling and its powerful enablers who slip through international borders with gold and return with billions in American dollars.
Kenyan Opposition Leader Urged to Suspend Rallies
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | NAIROBI, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — Kenya’s opposition leader, Raila Odinga, is not going away quietly. Defeated in national elections last August, the 78-year-old opposition leader is now leading street protests in Nairobi neighbourhoods, drawing thousands of followers who face growing poverty, surging living costs, joblessness, […]
Kenyan Tree Planting Activist Remembered with Call to Invest
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | NAIROBI, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — The Wangari Mathai Foundation observed the late Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai’s birthday on April 1 with a call to invest in the planet. “Wangari literally invested her life from a young age in this planet,” foundation CEO Njeri Kabeberi said. […]
Japan Urged to Push Nuclear Disarmament Principle at G7 Hiroshima Summit
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY | TOKYO, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — Addressing a live-streamed conference held at Soka University in Tokyo on 29 March in preparation for the G7 summit in May, which Japan hosts, Takashi Ariyoshi, Deputy Secretary General of the G7 Hiroshima Summit Secretariat said that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida had put high […]
Netanyahu’s Dismal Failure To Guard Israel-Arab Relations
This article was originally published in CNN Arabic By Dr Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — Repulsive statements recently made by Israel’s finance minister demonstrate how corrupt and irresponsible the Netanyahu government is and the damage that it has inflicted on Israel. This damage will endure as long as this extremist nationalist […]
American Journalists in China
By Jan Servaes* BRUSSELS, 2 April 2023 (IDN) — After the success of the ‘Assignment China’ TV-series, Columbia University Press. recently published the book with the same title: “Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People’s Republic”. The themes already covered in the TV series have been updated and expanded to 25 […]
Sri Lanka: Bailed Out, Boxed In
By Neville de Silva* LONDON, 2 April 2023 (IDN) — That was irony surely. Last April Sri Lanka defaulted on its debt payments for the first time in 75 years and declared itself bankrupt. It was the ignominious result of accumulated loans taken by leaders of successive governments for their lavish spending on wasteful projects […]