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…
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…
Opinion by Riccardo Petrella (brussels) Thursday, June 30, 2022 Inter Press Service BRUSSELS, Jun 30 (IPS) – The writer is Professor Emeritus of the Catholic University of LouvainOn Sunday 19 June, we gathered in Sezano, municipality of Verona (VR), at the Monastery of the Common Good to affirm the need and…
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…
Opinion by Norman Solomon (san francisco, usa) Friday, June 10, 2022 Inter Press Service SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jun 10 (IPS) – I’ve just finished going through the more than 60 presidential statements, documents and communiques about the war in Ukraine that the White House has released and posted on its website…
Opinion by Jan Lundius (stockholm) Friday, June 03, 2022 Inter Press Service STOCKHOLM, Jun 03 (IPS) – What I have most wanted to do… is to make political writing into an art. George OrwellWarfare and misinformation are intimately connected. The 29th of May was globally observed as The Day of Communication…
The UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand, Gita Sabharwal (3rd from right), talks to migrants in Tak province on the impact of COVID-19. Credit: UNSDG/Build back better: UN Thailand’s COVID-19 strategy. Opinion by Simone Galimberti (kathmandu, nepal) Friday, June 03, 2022 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jun 03 (IPS) – Few deny…
Opinion by Norman Solomon (san francisco, usa) Wednesday, June 01, 2022 Inter Press Service SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jun 01 (IPS) – New outcries for gun control have followed the horrible tragedies of mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo. “Evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas, to that grocery store…
Community members in Sowripalayam, outside Coimbatore, receive a meal from No Food Waste, a GFN-supported food bank in India. Credit: The Global Food Banking Network/Narayana Swamy Subbaraman Opinion by Lisa Moon (chicago, usa) Friday, May 27, 2022 Inter Press Service CHICAGO, USA, May 27 (IPS) – For months, the specter of…
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