Category: World
‘We Came for Action, Not Promises’: Developing Nations Voice Frustration as Bonn Talks Conclude
The United Nations June Climate Meetings (SB64) ended in Bonn with sharp disagreements between developed and developing countries over climate finance, adaptation support…
How AgricTech Cuts Labour for Zimbabwe’s Female Farmers
Long burdened by the labour-intensive nature of agriculture, Zimbabwe’s female farmers are finding relief in new agritechnologies that significantly reduce the time they…
RightsCon’s Cancellation Signals a Growing Threat to Human Rights and Digital Freedoms
RightsCon, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, has served for over a decade as a vital global gathering,…
Trump’s World Stagflation Also Undermines Dollar Hegemony
US President Trump’s policies are supposed to make America great again (MAGA), which means different things to various parties. Some of its consequences…
Don’t be fooled by the new China-North Korea love fest
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang earlier this month celebrated their decades-long alliance, with both…
The forgotten fugitives of US forever wars
To commemorate World Refugee Day (June 20) without confronting the American militarism driving the crisis is just plain hypocrisy. Data from the United…
Hyper-militarized ‘war on narco-terror’ is not stopping drug flows
For the past year, the Trump administration has undertaken a lethal campaign of strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern…
Old Iraq war architects rise up to wag finger at Trump’s Iran deal
Assume, for the sake of argument, that you think the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) just signed by President Donald Trump in Versailles…
Trump ended his idiotic Iran war. Good.
I have spent years fighting against Trump’s push toward war with Iran, and I have the scars to prove it. When Trump withdrew…
Will US Opposition to UN’s Socio-Economic Goals Play a Decisive Role in the Vote for Next Secretary-General?
As the campaign for a new UN secretary-general gathers momentum, will the US exercise the decisive vote — or the veto– in the…
