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Opinion: Shared Action for a Nuclear Weapon Free World
Daisaku Ikeda is a Japanese Buddhist philosopher and peace-builder, and president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) grassroots Buddhist movement (www.sgi.org)By Daisaku IkedaTOKYO, Apr 9 2015...
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Opinion: Pillar of Neoliberal Thinking is Vacillating
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 latest figures from the IMF only confirm what...
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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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Prepaid Meters Scupper Gains Made in Accessing Water in Africa
Whether they like it or not, many Africans faced with the possibility of having to access water through prepaid meters have resorted to unprotected and often unclean sources of water because they...
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The U.N. at 70: Is It Still Fit for the Purpose?
A boatload of people, some of them likely in need of international protection, are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian Navy. The UN at 70 must “be fit for the purpose … otherwise it would...
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Opinion: Edinburgh University Bows to Fossil Fuel Industry
Edinburgh Castle, symbol of the Scottish capital, whose university has just decided not to disinvest in fossil fuels. Photo credit: Kim Traynor/CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBy Kirsty Haigh, Eric...
View ArticleCorporate Tax Dodging Cheats Africa Out of 6 Billion Dollars, Says Oxfam
By Sean BuchananLONDON, Jun 2 2015 (IPS)G7-based companies and investors cheated Africa out of an estimated six billion dollars in a year through just one form of tax dodging, according to a new Oxfam...
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Opinion: Why the US-Iran Nuclear Deal May Still Fail
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).By Prem...
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Opinion: Immigration, Myths and the Irresponsibility of Europe
By Roberto SavioROME, Jun 6 2015 (IPS)With little fanfare, the German IFO Institute for Economic Research recently published a report on population projections for Germany which states simply that the...
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Opinion: G7 Makes Commitment on Climate … to Climate Chaos
Is the G7 commitment to an energy transition that aims to gradually phase out fossil fuel emissions this century to avoid the worst of climate change just hot air? Credit: CC BY-SA 2.5By Lucy...
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Opinion: The Sad Historical Consequences of the Greek Bailout
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, writes that what lies behind the recent convoluted negotiations...
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Opinion: A Farewell to Arms that Fuel Atrocities is Within Our Grasp
The recent destruction of this 2,000-year-old temple – the temple of Baal-Shamin in Palmyra, Syria – is yet another grim example of how the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) uses...
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Stop Food Waste – Cook It and Eat It
Customers enjoy a ‘Pay As You Feel Lunch’ at The Armley Junk-Tion, Armley, Leeds, where food destined to waste and intercepted by volunteers is cooked into perfectly edible and nutritious meals....
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Opinion: Iran and 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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Opinion: Short-Term Goals are the Key to an Effective Climate Treaty
Andreas Sieber has worked for several NGOs and the Saxon State Chancellery in Germany. As part of the #Climatetracker project, Sieber attended the UNFCCC meetings which have just ended in Bonn.By...
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Western Double Standards on Deadly Cluster Bombs
Ta Doangchom, a Laotian cluster bomb victim, beside homemade prosthetic limbs in the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) National Rehabilitation Centre in Vientiane. Credit: Irwin...
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Opinion: The Early History of Iran’s Nuclear Programme
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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Disunity, the Hallmark of European Union Foreign Policy
Emma Bonino is a leading member of the Radical Party, former European Commissioner and a former Italian Foreign Minister.By Emma BoninoROME, Dec 31 2015 (IPS)The appalling crisis ravaging the Middle...
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Post-Brexit blues
By Mahir AliJun 29 2016 (Dawn, Pakistan)AGITATED markets, a tumbling pound-sterling, a downgraded credit rating: none of these should have been an unexpected outcome of the British electorate’s...
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Argentine Soldiers Rest in Peace in the Malvinas/Falkland Islands
Julio Aro in the Argentine Military Cemetery (or Darwin Cemetery), in Malvinas/Falkland Islands. The former combatant worked since 2008 with the aim of identifying the Argentine soldiers buried on the...
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OPINION: The Disturbing Expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex
In this column, Mairead Maguire, peace activist from Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, argues that the whole of civilisation is facing a challenge with the continuing growth of the...
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OPINION: Europe is Positioning Itself Outside the International Race
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 crisis of internal governance, fomented by a...
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Why Are G20 Governments Subsidising Dangerous Climate Change?
Governments continue to subsidise exploration for fossil fuels despite pledges to support the transition to clean energy. Credit: Flickr/Leszek KozlowskiBy Shelagh WhitleyLONDON, Nov 11 2014 (IPS) Just...
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OPINION: Will There be Peace Between Iran and the West?
In this column, Emma Bonino, former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and former European Commissioner, argues that the West and Iran would be well advised to take advantage of what may be their last...
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OPINION: The Decline of Social Europe is Part of a World Trend
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, argues that social criteria are taking a back seat to financial...
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OPINION: The Suicide of Europe
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 anti-immigrant direction being taken in some...
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Faiths United Against Nuclear Weapons
By Julia RainerVIENNA, Dec 10 2014 (IPS) “Never was there a greater need than now for all the religions to combine, to pull their wisdom and to give the benefit of that combined, huge repository of...
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Afghan Concern Over Western Disengagement
Peddlers in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, North Afghanistan. Concern is being expressed in Afghanistan about the country’s future after Western disengagement. Credit: Giuliano Battiston/IPSBy...
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For Zimbabweans, Universal Education May be an Unattainable Goal
Primary school children like the ones pictured here in Zimbabwe's capital Harare often drop out of school, casting doubts on this Southern African nation's capacity to achieve universal primary...
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OPINION: Developing Economies Increasingly Vulnerable in Unstable Global...
In this column, Yilmaz Akyuz, chief economist at the South Centre in Geneva, argues that emerging and developing economies have become more closely integrated into an inherently unstable international...
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Opinion: The ‘Acapulco Paradox’ – Two Parallel Worlds Each Going Their Own Way
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 world of finance is detached from the reality...
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Opinion: The Exceptional Destiny of Foreign Policy
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, analyses the incongruences in U.S. and European foreign policy 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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A “Year of Eye-Catching Steps Forward” for Renewable Energy
Driven by solar and wind, world investments in renewable energy leapt in 2014. Photo credit: Jürgen from Sandesneben, Germany/Licensed under CC BY 2.0 By Sean BuchananROME, Mar 31 2015 (IPS) Driven by...
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Opinion: Where Does Nigeria Go From Here?
General Muhammadu Buhari holding a broom at a campaign rally. Photo credit: By Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Flickr: Wahlkampf in Nigeria 2015)/CC BY-SA 2.0By Lisa VivesNEW YORK/ABUJA, Apr 2 2015 (IPS) After...
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