By Annalena Baerbock Following is the text of a speech by Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs at the “Sustaining Peace amidst the Climate Crisis: The Role of Data Science, Technology & Innovation” Conference on May 2-3 in Berlin. BERLIN (IDN) — The climate crisis is a threat to our world, to our lives. Many of […]
Sweden Is Playing with Fire as It Plans to Join NATO
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power This article builds on a column of 1974 the author wrote for the New York Times. It was the most prominent article printed that day on the op-ed page. Over a long career, he has developed those ideas and the following is the result. LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Sweden has been […]
US Progressives Can’t Depend on the Congressional Progressive Caucus
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO, USA (IDN) — Sometimes one decision speaks volumes. And so it was when the Congressional Progressive Caucus—with 98 members in the House—recently chose to have its PAC endorse a corporate “moderate” against the strong progressive candidate Nina Turner. In the process, the Progressive Caucus underscored its loyalty […]
Hunt for Minerals Leads to Growing Number of Accidents and Evictions by Mining Companies
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Seydi Sow, a landowner in Djogo, Senegal, contemplated his eviction by a mining company with joint headquarters in Australia and France and which mines zircon in central Senegal. The elderly landowner said he was wronged in the compensation process. With two fields over two hectares […]
Sierra Leone Teacher Activists Arrested for Demanding ‘Living Wages’
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | FREETOWN (IDN) — Schoolteachers in Sierra Leone say they’ve had enough after the arrest of Mohamed Salieu Khan, interim chair of the Teachers Solidarity Movement (TSM). On April 26, he was grabbed by police outside the popular AYV TV station after speaking about the dismal plight […]
German Deal with Namibian President on Hold Because Herero and Nama Were Left Out
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Reparations—a system of redress for egregious injustices—are not a foreign idea imposed from the outside on the United States. On the contrary, the U.S. has given lands to Native Americans, paid $1.5 billion to Japanese Americans interned in the U.S. during World War II, and […]
Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders
Reviewed by Desmond Narain Doulatram* The book by Walter Pincus (Diversion Books, November 2021) was reviewed in Arms Control Today. MAJURO, Marshall Islands (IDN) — Many researchers have written extensively on the nuclear history of the Marshall Islands, but these publications have not benefited the indigenous Marshallese population justly. Ultimately, it is the Marshallese, not […]
Putin’s Russia Is Also Attacking Ukrainian Culture
By Barbara Crossette, Passblue NEW YORK (IDN) — In Europe and around the world, the landmark drama theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol will long be associated with crimes against humanity, whether or not a formal trial of the Russians who bombed it is ever held. At least 300 people, including many children—the final […]
U.S. Troops Train Ukrainians in Germany as M777 Howitzers Are on the Way
By Jim Garamone & David Vergun, DOD News This report was issued by the U.S. Department of Defense. WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) — U.S. service members in Germany have begun training Ukrainian soldiers on key systems being used to defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion, according to Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby. “These efforts build […]
UN Chief Guterres Visits Ukraine and Calls for Justice
By Radwan Jakeem with UN News NEW YORK (IDN) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres was visibly “personally affected” on visiting sites of suspected war crimes in Ukraine on April 28, where he condemned the “evil” acts committed against civilians and urged criminal accountability. His visit to the Kyiv suburbs of Borodianka, Bucha and Irpin took […]