Viewpoint by Glenn Greenwald* This article is being republished from Information Clearing House. NEW YORK (IDN ) – The richest and most powerful country on earth — whether due to ineptitude, choice or some combination of both — has no ability to perform the simple task of counting votes in a minimally efficient or confidence-inspiring […]
Democracy Takes A Beating in Elections Across the African Continent
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Foul play may have been the winner in recent national elections in Tanzania, where the ruling party swept up an overwhelming majority of parliamentary seats and the leaders of both top opposition parties lost theirs. Citing “seditious language”, the election commission suspended the campaign of […]
The West Is Often Ill-Informed About Islam
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN) – France has its back to the wall, unnecessarily so. Its coronavirus policy is in a mess. (How come the Asians and Africans can get it right and the Europeans and Americans can’t? Perhaps we are racially inferior.) And now there is the appalling act by an 18-year […]
Sudanese Refugees Face Uncertainty in Israel If Bilateral Ties Are Resumed
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Sudanese refugees who live in Israel are wondering what their future holds if ties are normalized between the two countries as predicted and the Israeli government launches deportation proceedings against them. There are around 6,500 Sudanese nationals in Israel, representing 20 per cent of all […]
U.S. Upsets Election of African Candidate for Top World Trade Post
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Backed by an overwhelming number of World Trade Organization (WTO) delegates, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was on a fast track to become the head of the global trade group. Dr. Okonjo-Iweala was set to become the first woman and first African to lead the global trade […]
Haiti Has a Long History of Being Assaulted by Its Latin American Neighbors
By Lautaro Rivara * PORT-AU-PRINCE (IDN) – Thirteen United Nations peacekeeping missions are underway in various countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Haiti has been the epicenter of the UN peacekeeping missions in Latin America and the Caribbean; there have been eight UN missions since the International Civilian Mission in Haiti (MICIVIH) was […]
US Pressurizes TPNW Signatories Triggering Uncertainty About Nuclear-Weapons-Free World
By Thalif Deen * NEW YORK (IDN) – Responding to a question, Albert Einstein, the German-born physicist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics, predicted rather ominously: “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Einstein, who regretted […]
How Colonial Policy Is Impoverishing Indian Ocean Coastal Communities
Viewpoint by Dr Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The writer is an anthropologist affiliated with the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. Read also A Hybrid Cold War Unfolding in The Indo-Pacific Beneath the Covid-19 Mask. COLOMBO (IDN) – Like the Chagossians who were forcibly displaced to Mauritius and Seychelles, Sri Lankan and other Indian Ocean Rim […]
A Hybrid Cold War Unfolding in The Indo-Pacific Beneath the Covid-19 Mask
Viewpoint by Dr Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The writer is an anthropologist affiliated with the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo. COLOMBO (IDN) – The Covid-19 narrative has colonised the world, shutting down the global and local economy and society, with a face mask as its telling symbol. In strategically located Sri Lanka, more people have […]
New Research Raises Alarm for Our Most Precious Buffer to Climate Change: Groundwater
Viewpoint by Vincent Casey The writer is Senior WASH Manager – Water, WaterAid UK LONDON (IDN) – WaterAid’s newly released water security research has uncovered an alarming lack of global governance and grave mismanagement of the world’s precious groundwater reserves, needlessly putting millions of lives at risk. Hundreds of millions of people rely on groundwater […]