By Rosemary DiCarlo UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs Following are extensive excerpts from Ms DiCarlo’s briefing to the Security Council on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on peace and security. NEW YORK (IDN) – It is sobering to realize that the risks the Secretary-General identified to this Council on 2 July are […]
UN Report Presents A Unified Assessment of The Critical State of Our Earth System
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – As global temperatures continue to hit new highs, the choice, according to the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, is between “business as usual, leading to further calamity, or using the recovery from COVID-19 to provide a real opportunity to put the world on a sustainable path”. Speaking at […]
Mass Direct Action Might Be the Only Way to Stop Trump from Stealing the Election
Viewpoint by George Lakey * This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. PHILADELPHIA (IDN) – The warning drums for a contested election are beating louder and louder. At a recent campaign stop in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Trump once again laid the groundwork for […]
Mass Direct Action Might Be the Only Way to Stop Trump from Stealing the Election
Viewpoint by George Lakey * This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. PHILADELPHIA (IDN) – The warning drums for a contested election are beating louder and louder. At a recent campaign stop in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Trump once again laid the groundwork for […]
Why The November U.S. Election Is Critical
Viewpoint by John Scales Avery * COPENHAGEN (IDN) – Why did Prof. Noam Chomsky call the US Republican Party “The most dangerous organization in the history of the world”? He did so because the party is characterized by climate change denial and by support for giant fossil fuel corporations. According to the 2018 IPCC Report, […]
Death of The Leader Of “The Killing Fields” Raises Questions
Will there be more genocides that the world will ignore until it is too late? Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN) – One of the cruellest men ever to have lived died on September 2 in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Kaing Guek Eav, popularly known as “Duch”, was 77 and had been […]
Will the United Nations Survive To See Its 100th Birthday?
Viewpoints by Franz Baumann, Fmr. UN Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations and Christopher Ankersen, Global Affairs, New York University. NEW YORK (IDN) – “Adlai Stevenson, President Kennedy’s Ambassador to the United Nations, rebutted UN critics by recounting Adam’s marriage proposal to Eve. When she hesitated, Adam asked ‘is there somebody else?’ Stevenson concluded that much good […]
Shakespeare Festival in South Africa Performed by An All Woman Cast
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | JOHANNESBURG (IDN) – “Theatre will rise again,” declared James Ngcobo, artistic director of the renowned Market Theatre in Johannesburg. “COVID hasn’t stifled our passion, just moved it into another space.” This month, Ngcobo is spotlighting speeches from some of Shakespeare’s iconic plays, mostly written for male […]
Senegal Sees Dollar Signs in New Construction Underway in Dakar
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | DAKAR (IDN) – Can a fish and peanut-based economy ramp up to become a world-class industrial powerhouse when money is tight and oil discoveries may not bring the hoped-for rewards? That’s the question for Senegalese people to consider as hopes placed in their president, Macky Sall, […]
Reactions to Navalny’s Poisoning Aren’t Much Ado About Nothing
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW (IDN) – Despite Western and European countries and many reputable international organizations calling for objective investigations that will inevitably establish facts about the alleged “poisoning” of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Russian officials have categorically turned down and confidently played against such suggestions. He is a Russian opposition politician and […]