By Jeffrey D. Sachs* This article was published in Common Dreams and is being republished with the author’s permission. NEW YORK | 20 February 2024 (IDN) — The cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is filled with religious extremists who believe that Israel’s brutality in Gaza is at God’s command. According to the Book […]
Ending the Existential Risks of the Menace of Nuclear Weapons
By Tariq Rauf* VIENNA | 20 February 2024 (IDN) — Following the Trinity nuclear test detonation of 16 July 1945, nuclear scientist Leó Szilárd observed: “Almost without exception, all the creative physicists had misgivings about the use of the bomb” and further that “[President] Truman did not understand at all what was involved regarding nuclear […]
UN Meeting Agrees Actions for the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
By Jutta Wolf BERLIN | 19 February 2024 (IDN) — While human migration continues to stir up emotions, the world’s migratory species that undertake astonishing journeys between ecosystems, often through air, land and water—increasingly damaged by unsustainable human activities—remain out of focus. The State of the World’s Migratory Species report—launched at the start of the […]
Dodging Biden’s Moral Collapse Is No Way to Defeat Trump
By Norman Solomon* SAN FRANCISCO | 18 February 2024 (IDN) — For more than four months, President Biden has been the main enabler for Israel’s mass murder of Palestinian people in Gaza. Every day, hundreds of civilians are killed by U.S. weaponry and, increasingly, by hunger and disease. The cruelty and magnitude of the slaughter are […]
Is Thailand the “Most Unequal Semi-Democratic” State In SE Asia?
By Jan Servaes BANGKOK| 18 February 2024 (IDN) — On January 31, 2024, the Constitutional Court in Bangkok ordered the kingdom’s most popular political party to end its campaign to amend the country’s infamous defamation law – the lèse majesté law or Article 112 of the Criminal Code. Thailand has one of the strictest lèse […]
Tensions Flare in Senegal as Government Unleashes Police Violence
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 17 February 2024 (IDN) — A constitutional conflict threatening the normally peaceful nation of Senegal has stumped Africa-watchers around the world, more accustomed to the nation’s popular beaches and cliffs, vibrant markets and glittering nightlife. Beneath the peaceful exterior, however, discontent has been brewing since Senegalese […]
Kenyan Superstar Runner and his Coach Die in Car Crash
Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 17 February 2024 (IDN) — Kelvin Kiptum, a superstar of long distance running and the first man to run the marathon in under two hours, died tragically in a late-night car crash in western Kenya. He died along with his coach, Gervais Hakizimana , when he veered […]
Middle-Income Countries, Hit by Debt Burdens and Rising Inflation, Fight for Survival
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 16 February 2024 (IDN) — The Group of 77 (G77) is the largest single coalition of developing countries comprising over two-thirds of the 193-member United Nations. Besides protecting and promoting the economic interests of 134 nations, the G77 is also home to several sub categories, including the world’s least […]
Bridging Faiths, Preserving Legacies
By Soukaina Kherdioui* RABAT, Morocco | 16 February 2024 (IDN) — The archives digitization project, initiated by the Diocese of Rabat in partnership with the High Atlas Foundation, is a promising endeavour. I hope that it will enable us to amplify the work on other archival collections so as to pay tribute to the countless people […]
Nigeria: Battling with a Serious Cost-of-Living Crisis
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA | 15 February 2024 (IDN) — I was going through some old files in my closet the other day when I saw some documents and receipts that absolutely cracked me up. Among the browning, time-worn papers was the […]