By John Scales Avery - COPENHAGEN (IDN) – I would like to announce the publication of a new book, which discusses the question of how oligarchs maintain their grasp on an excessive share of wealth and power when, as Shelley pointed out, the have-nots are many, while the power-holders are few. Here…

  By Nadir Ali Wani* SRINAGAR, India (IDN) – Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet. Which of them would be the first to completely lose its separate and independent identity under the watch of the expansionist Chinese president, Xi Jinping? Critics say while the world pays more attention to Taiwan and Hong Kong and…

By John J. Metzler - While recent flareups of the Corona virus have been spreading across large parts of the USA,  Americans are hardly alone in facing the deadly pandemic.  Though virus outbreaks are often presented by mainstream media outlets as a political validation of the contentious mask debate, leading European countries…

Viewpoint by Anuradha Mittal * OAKLAND, USA (IDN) – This World Food Day (October 16) amidst the ongoing pandemic and the devastating impact of the climate crisis, a Food Systems Summit is being planned a year from now by the United Nations, to fulfil the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals. As…

WebPublicaPress -GENEVA/NEW YORK – The new report from World Health Organization (WHO) shows that access to Tuberculosis (TB) /and TB is still a disease that has not been completely defeated due to its prevalence in the poorer parts of the planet/ services to those in need remains a challenge, especially…

By Thalif Deen – UNITED NATIONS  - The phenomenal rise in extreme poverty -– for the first time in 20 years — has been accompanied by an upsurge in the incomes of the world’s billionaires and the super-rich. The paradox of poverty amidst plenty is being blamed largely on the coronavirus…

By John J. Metzler - Beijing’s widening human rights and political crackdowns in both Xinjiang Province and Hong Kong have underscored the People’s Republic of China’s pavlovian reaction involving any     opposition towards the ruling communist regime.  Though suppressing religious and political dissent is nothing new on the Chinese Mainland, its scope and intensity has deepened under Chairman…