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From Havana to Bali, Third World Gets the Trade Crumbs
In this column, Chakravarthi Raghavan, renowned journalist and long-time observer of multilateral negotiations, analyses agreements to liberalise world trade since the Second World War up the recent...
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OPINION: Civil Society Calls For Impartial Inquiry on Air Crash and...
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO chief, addresses a crowd in Austin, Texas. Credit: DVIDSHUB/Texas Military Forces/Photo by Staff Sgt. Eric Wilson/CC-BY-2.0By Alice SlaterNEW YORK, Sep 2 2014 (IPS)It is...
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OPINION: Say ‘No’ to War and Media Propaganda
In this column, Mairead Maguire, peace activist from Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, condemns NATO’s recent decision to create a new rapid reaction force for initial deployment in the...
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OPINION: Free Scotland, Nuclear-Free Scotland
The blue and white Saltire flag of Scotland flutters next to the Union Jack during the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Credit: Vicky Brock/cc by 2.0By Phil HarrisROME, Sep 16 2014 (IPS)After a two-year...
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OPINION: Sleepwalking Towards Nuclear War
In this column, Helge Luras, founder and director of the Centre for International and Strategic Analysis (SISA) based in Oslo, Norway, argues that up until now, NATO has not challenged another nuclear...
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ANALYSIS: Europe’s Migrant Graveyard
The Italian Navy rescued 1,004 refugees and migrants on 14 August 2014. Some arrived barefoot, some children were shaking with cold. Men, women and children from Syria, Somalia, Gambia, Bangladesh and...
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UNIDO Comes a Long Way
UNIDO Director General LI Yong at the Second ISID Forum, Nov. 4-5, 2014. Credit: Courtesy of UNIDOBy Ramesh JauraVIENNA, Nov 6 2014 (IPS)The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO)...
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OPINION: Why Nuclear Disarmament Could Still Be the Most Important Thing...
In this column, Risto Isomäki, Finnish environmental activist and award-winning writer whose novels have been translated into several languages, describes the practically unimaginable capacity for...
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Civil Society Support for Marshall Islands Against Nuclear Weapons
Mushroom cloud over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands from Castle Bravo, the largest nuclear test ever conducted by the United States. Credit: United States Department of Energy [Public domain] via...
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OPINION-CUBA/US: Catching a Glimpse of the Possible Future
Leonardo Padura*By Leonardo PaduraHAVANA, Jan 21 2015 (IPS)All Cubans, on either side of the Florida Straits, but in places like Spain, France or Greenland – where there must be a couple of Cubans – as...
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Opinion: Foreign Policy is in the Hands of Sleepwalkers
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, takes a recent scathing report from the House of Lords that the...
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The U.N. at 70: A View from Outer Space
Dr. Nandasiri Jasentuliyana is President Emeritus of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), Formerly Deputy Director-General, United Nations Office at Vienna and Director, Office for Outer...
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Opinion: The West and Its Self-Assumed Right to Intervene
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, argues that the West, led by the United States, has taken on...
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Analysis: Global Politics at a Turning Point – Part 1
Prem Shankar Jha is an eminent Indian journalist based in New Delhi. He is also the author of numerous books, including The Twilight of the Nation State: Globalisation, Chaos, and War (2006). In this...
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Opinion: Greece – A Sad Story of the European Establishment
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, writes that the latest development in the tug of war which has...
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Opinion: Why Women Peacemakers Marched in Korea
In this column, Mairead Maguire, peace activist from Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, explains why thirty women peacemakers from 15 countries made a historic crossing of the...
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Opinion: European Federalism and Missed Opportunities
In this column Emma Bonino, a leading member of the Radical Party, former European Commissioner and a former Italian foreign minister, argues that serious problems affecting Europe, like the Greek...
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Opinion: Can Nuclear War be Avoided?
Gunnar Westberg, Professor of Medicine in Göteborg, Sweden, and Co-President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) from 2004 to 2008, describes himself as “generally...
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Opinion: Nuclear States Do Not Comply with the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Farhang Jahanpour is a former professor and dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Isfahan and a former Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University. He is a tutor in the...
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Fidel Castro, a Larger-than-Life Leader in Tumultuous Times
The urn holding the ashes of Fidel Castro is seen covered by a Cuban flag on a military jeep on Nov. 30, at the start of an 800-km funeral procession that will reach a cemetery in Santiago de Cuba on...
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OP-ED: Weapons into Ploughshares, and Crises into Opportunity
By Sergio DuarteNEW YORK, Aug 6 2012 (IPS) The crisis that started a few years ago with the collapse of major financial institutions in the United States is now centred in Europe and threatens other...
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The Frightening Scenario of the Nuclear War
By Ira Helfand*NORTHAMPTON, U.S., Dec 18 2012 (IPS) Soon after President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, hundreds of leaders of the global medical community wrote an open letter to him, and to newly...
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Preventing World War III
By Johan GaltungOSLO, Jan 2 2013 (IPS) A Third World War is not impossible, but fortunately is rather unlikely. Let us explore why, and what can be done to prevent it. Johan Galtung The worst-case...
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U.S.-Russian Rift May Play Out at U.N.
Vitaly I. Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder DebebeBy Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 13 2013 (IPS) When the Cold War peaked in the late...
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Q&A: “This Is Not Huntington’s World”
Rousbeh Legatis interviews HARALD MÜLLER of the Peace Research Institute FrankfurtBy Rousbeh LegatisUNITED NATIONS, Oct 1 2013 (IPS) While a fine wine might get better with age, the same is not true...
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Why Are We Entering the Cold War Again?
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, suggests that media criticism of Russia’s actions in Crimea and...
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Sweden’s Elites More Loyal to NATO than to Their People
In this column, Jan Oberg, director and co-founder of the Transnational Foundation (TFF) in Lund, Sweden, writes that his country is no longer neutral but is closely aligned with the United States and...
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Cuba-United States – Something Is Moving
In this column, Ignacio Ramonet, director of Le Monde Diplomatique in Spanish, analyses U.S.-Cuba relations.By Ignacio RamonetPARIS, Jul 7 2014 (IPS) In ‘Hard Choices’, her new book about her...
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Ever Wondered Why the World is a Mess?
Addressing this column to the younger generations, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, offers ten explanations of how...
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Europe and the United States, Allies in Crisis
In this column, Professor Joaquín Roy, Professor of European Integration and Director of the European Union Centre at the University of Miami, argues that although the United States and Europe are in...
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