Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, August 23, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 23 (IPS) – After four years of Trump’s ‘America first’ isolationism, US President Joe Biden announced “America is back”. His White House has since tried to find allies…
Mahmoud Abbas, President of the S tate of Palestine, addresses the UN Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe by Thalif Deen (united nations) Friday, July 15, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 15 (IPS) – Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
Opinion by Norman Solomon (san francisco, usa) Friday, July 15, 2022 Inter Press Service SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jul 15 (IPS) – Pundits are focused on Joe Biden’s tanking poll numbers, while progressives continue to be alarmed by his dismal job performance. Under the apt headline “President Biden Is Not Cutting the…
The “bodegones” are Venezuela’s new commercial boom. They sell imported products, mostly from the United States despite the sanctions, and have spread into middle and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Caracas and other cities, to attract consumers who receive remittances of foreign currency from the millions of Venezuelans who have migrated…
When the UN votes by secret ballot… Credit: United Nations by Thalif Deen (united nations) Wednesday, July 06, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 06 (IPS) – A 2.0 version of an ancient Biblical saying reads: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle…
Conflict is still the biggest driver of hunger, with 60 percent of the world’s hungry living in areas affected by war and violence. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, July 01, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jul 01 (IPS) – While the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit ended…
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Credit: NATO. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Tuesday, June 28, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jun 28 (IPS) – The three-day North Atlantic Treaty Organisation-NATO Summit in Madrid (28,29, 30 June 2022) is expected to agree to considerably increase Europe’s military power, heavily weaponise Russia’s border, and further…
Credit: US government by Baher Kamal (madrid) Friday, June 24, 2022 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jun 24 (IPS) – They call it MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. It is about the nuclear-armed powers’ doctrine of military strategy and national security policy. And they spent on their MAD policy more than 156.000 US…
View of the United Nations General Assembly, which on three occasions this year has censured the invasion of Russian forces in Ukraine and where many countries have expressed non-alignment with the positions taken by the contenders. CREDIT: Manuel Elias/UN by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Monday, June 20, 2022 Inter Press Service CARACAS,…
Opinion by Isheba Cornwall (mona, jamaica) Friday, June 17, 2022 Inter Press Service MONA, Jamaica, Jun 17 (IPS) – On Monday June 20, there will be an informal high-level UN meeting to mark the commemoration of the first International Day for Countering Hate Speech.Hate speech is a phenomenon that can be…
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