Section: Inter Press Service (Italy)
US, EU Accused of Paying Lip Service to Global Arms Treaty
The non-violence knotted gun statue at UN headquarters in NYC. Credit: IPS UN Bureau.By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 2016 (IPS)The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which was aimed at curbing the flow of small arms and light weapons to war zones and politically-repressive regimes, is being openly violated by some of the world’s arms suppliers,...
The Day a Soviet Leader Banged His Shoe at the Un
By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 2016 (The Sunday Times – Sri Lanka)During the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and particularly in the 1960s, the United Nations was the ideological battle ground where the Americans and the Soviets pummeled each other– metaphorically speaking — either on the floor of...
How Russia Will Use Brexit to Fight Sanctions
By Editor, The Manila Times, PhilippinesJul 6 2016 (Manila Times)FORECAST EU sanctions against Russia are all but guaranteed to remain in place through 2016, but Moscow will work in the second half of the year to get them eased in 2017.Russia will capitalize on divisions in the European Union, which will only widen in the wake of Brexit, to...
Brex’it, So Be’it; And Then What?
Source: TRANSCEND Media ServiceBy Johan GaltungALICANTE, Spain, Jun 26 2016 (IPS)The vote turned out like the two referenda held in Norway in 1972 and 1994. And much for the same reason: Protestant break with Rome–Catholic, imperial–Henry VIII made himself head of the Anglican Church in 1534.Religion was not the only reason, there are Protestant...
Is it in Europe’s Interest to Push Russia into China’s Arms?
Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News.By Roberto SavioROME, May 23 2016 (IPS)No mention in the media of the dangerous increase in tension between Europe and Russia. But Nato has just made operational in Romania a missile system, the ABM, which the US has declared...
Deteriorating Protection of Journalists’ Sources a Global Problem
A journalist conducts an interview in Kenya. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPSBy Linus AtarahHELSINKI, May 5 2016 (IPS)The freedom of the press is a universally cherished democratic right, but what may have been overlooked as the World Day Freedom of Information was celebrated on Wednesday is that the ability of journalists to protect their source is...
OPINION: Wake Up! We Need Statesman and Values but We Get Selfish Politicians and Cynicsm..
Roberto Savio, IPS news agency founder and president emeritus and publisher of Other NewsBy Roberto SavioROME, Apr 15 2016 (IPS)A total indifference has accompanied the number of refugees injured by Macedonian police in Idomeni, where more than 12 000 people, including 4 000 children have been trapped, since Austria asked Macedonia, Serbia,...
World Water Day: Water Scarcity Is a Clear and Present Danger
By Farhana Haque Rahman, Director General, Inter Press ServiceROME, Mar 21 2016 (IPS)Water scarcity is already a clear and present danger, and it is the innocent, particularly women and children, who are harmed most. When we are inundated with information about water it’s easy to become desensitized. World Water Day on March 22nd gives us...
Europe: The Schengen Agreement In Danger
In this column Emma Bonino, a leading member of the Radical Party, former European Commissioner and a former Italian foreign minister, refers to the European Commission’s threat to exclude Greece from the free travel Schengen area, unless it imposes stronger controls on the flow of migrants. According to the author, the European Union is...
The Fearful World of Network News in 2015
Andrew TyndallBy Jim LobeWASHINGTON, Jan 26 2016 (IPS)If your view of world events outside the U.S. was shaped in substantial part by watching the evening news shows on the three major U.S. networks last year, you’d probably want to stay home.Terrorism and the bloody wars of the Middle East dominated the network news coverage of the world...
