By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | LISBON (IDN) — After two and half decades of its existence as a popular multilateral forum for Portuguese-speaking countries, the Confederação Empresarial da CPLP has been looking at multifaceted and diverse opportunities to strengthen the organization and to improve mutual cooperation among the member-governments which are geographically located in […]
Putin’s Actions in Ukraine are Vile, But Russia was Sorely Provoked by NATO
This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. Viewpoint by Ramesh Thakur CANBERRA, Australia (IDN) — Resorting to what President Barack Obama called the Washington Playbook of militarised response to a foreign policy crisis, Arta Moeini writes, the ruling elites in the West collude with the mainstream […]
Pakistan’s Political Change ‘Won’t Affect Solid Friendship with China’
Close ties with China ‘a consensus shared by all groups in Pakistan’ This article was issued by Global Times. Viewpoint by Yang Sheng and Liu Caiyu BEIJING (IDN) — Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from office in a no-confidence vote in the country’s parliament on Sunday (April 10), but such a major political […]
If The US Wants, It Can Solve the Ukraine Crisis Tomorrow
This article was originally published by CommonDreams.org under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Viewpoint by Robert Freeman LIVERMORE, CA USA (IDN) — Russia’s assault on Ukraine is an unambiguously bad thing. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum. In order to solve the problem, we have to first understand the context in which it occurred, […]
Kenyan President’s Bid to Rewrite Nation’s Laws Rebuffed
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — While political leaders around the world jockey for comebacks, to extend their terms in office or merely to ignore a no-confidence vote, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was scheming to make sweeping changes to the constitution which, critics say, would have expanded his powers and create […]
Racial Bias Against Blacks Fleeing Ukraine
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — As the US prepares to welcome tens of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing war, scores of African and Caribbean refugees are being sent back to unstable and violent homelands where they face rape, torture, arbitrary arrest and other abuses. Racial bias? An African refugee thinks so.
Israel Reaches Out to China, Again
This article was issued by the Indian Punchline. Viewpoint by M. K. Bhadrakumar* NEW DELHI (IDN) — The phone call to the Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on April 6 by Israel’s alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid adds to the tectonic shifts in the geopolitics of the Middle East […]
Sri Lanka’s Civil Unrest Should Trigger Alarm Bells Across Asia
Viewpoint by Kalinga Seneviratne * SYDNEY (IDN) — Civil unrest spreading across Sri Lanka in the past few weeks resembles the beginnings of the Arab Spring uprising by youth frustrated with corrupt political systems which left the Middle East in utter chaos, and the youth at the mercy of human traffickers and European governments.
The End Of (Human) History?
Viewpoint by Sergio Duarte The writer is Ambassador, former United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affair, and President of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. NEW YORK (IDN) — Roughly three decades have gone by since the publication of Francis Fukuyama’s essay “The End of History?”. The interrogation mark makes clear that the social […]
Putin’s Aggression Against Ukraine Has Changed the World
This article was issued by the Wall Street International and is being republished with their permission. Viewpoint by Franz Baumann NEW YORK (IDN) — Wars teach about geography. In mid-February, the autocorrect on my phone did not recognize, and few people in Western Europe or America could have located on a map Mariupol, Charkiv, Bucha, […]