By Bernhard Schell CAIRO, 25 March 2023 (IDN) — The United Nations has warned that eight years of protracted multilateral conflict in Yemen, with the involvement of Saudi Arabia, has produced the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Over two-thirds of Yemen’s population—21.6 million people—are in acute need of humanitarian assistance, and more than 20 […]
Washington Extends Its Long Arm into Africa’s Sahel
By Vijay Prashad* This article was produced by Globetrotter. NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts, 25 March 2023 (IDN) — On 16 March 2023, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced—during his visit to Niger—that the United States government will provide $150 million in aid to the Sahel region of Africa. This money, Blinken said, “will help provide life-saving […]
Our Global Water Crisis — A Few Facts
By John Scales Avery* COPENHAGEN, 24 March 2023 (IDN) — On its home page on World Water Day, 2021, the United Nations pointed out the following facts: Today, 1 in 3 people live without safe drinking water. By 2050, up to 5.7 billion people could be living in areas where water is scarce for at […]
Lessons on Climate Resilience and Peacebuilding from Ethiopia & the Dry Corridor
By Dr Farah Hegazi and Sandra C. Valencia* This article was published by SIPRI. STOCKHOLM, 24 March 20303 (IDN) — Humanitarian and development interventions often aim to make households and communities more resilient in the face of shocks, including climate change. But they can end up creating new vulnerabilities or missing chances to build and […]
America’s Over 300 Wars!
By John Scales Avery* COPENHAGEN, 23 March 2023 (IDN) — As documented in the Wikipedia timeline of US wars, the United States of America has been more or less continuously at war ever since the American Revolutionary war of 1775-1783, which established the United States as a nation.
Twenty Years Ago in Iraq, Ignoring Weapons Inspectors Proved to Be a Fatal Mistake
By Robert E. Kelley The writer is Distinguished Associate Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). “Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here.”—David Kay, Head of the Iraq Survey Group, during testimony to the US Senate on 29 January 2004.
Water, Water Everywhere But is it Fit to Drink?
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 22 March 2023 (IDN) — A much-quoted line in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s lyrical ballad, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, reads: “’water, water everywhere—nor any drop to drink’. The poem goes back to the year 1798—and more than five centuries later, the cry for water, described as a basic human […]
‘The Battle Over Israel’s Soul’
By Alon Ben-Meir* NEW YORK, 22 March 2023 (IDN) — Israel is facing the greatest danger since its inception—not from any regional adversarial power but from within, led by a largely corrupt cast of political characters and shepherded by a criminal who is willing to destroy the country only to escape justice.
A Tripartite Deal That Could Trigger Proliferation of Nuclear Submarines
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 22 March 2023 (IDN) —The tripartite deal between the UK and the US to provide nuclear submarines (SSNs) to Australia—announced March 13—is threatening to have repercussions worldwide A joint statement by the three countries (AUKUS) described it as a trilaterally-developed submarine based on the UK’s next-generation design that incorporates technology […]
Large Crowds Grieve Death of Mozambican Protest Rapper
A Stricken Nation Recovers from a Deadly Cyclone By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK, 21 March 2023 (IDN) — Chanting “Resistance!” and “Power to the people!”, thousands of Mozambicans bid farewell to popular protest rapper Azagaia, who died suddenly last week at the age of 38. Planned memorial marches that were expected to […]