By UN NEWS
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, UN-appointed rights experts said on March 1st, citing child killings, disappearances, torture and enforced mass displacement. “Between April and November 2021, we have received allegations indicating...
By Alfred W. McCoy* – from TomDispatch
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Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the...
By Emanuele Giordana
While the world watches with apprehension what is happening in Ukraine, a perhaps more worrying clash is brewing in Asia between the two real giants that are regulating regional balances and alliances: China and the United States....
By Jacob Botoga - Truthout
Nearly 23 million Afghans are facing “crisis levels of hunger” and 8.7 million are on the “brink of starvation.” This mass hunger has rendered millions of Afghans on the “verge of death,” according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Alongside...
By Ambra Visentin
"For a long time, China has avoided calling its adversary - the United States - by its name, but now the time has come to do so". This is how Alexei Maslov, professor and director of the...
by our Director, Raffaele Crocco.
South Korea 2018. Tokyo 2020 - effectively, 2021. Now Beijing, 2022: it is not at all strange that the Olympic Games have taken the road to the East. It is the third consecutive Olympics in...
An interview to Rosella Idéo by Alice Pistolesi
North Korea's new nuclear texts, part of a vast military defence program but also preparing for the upcoming elections in South Korea, deadlocked peace talks, while sanctions and pandemic border closures exacerbate...
This article appeared first on our Italian website on January 5th, 2022.
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Chow Hang Tung was found guilty of organising the 2021 annual vigil in memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square turmoil and sentenced to 15...
by Ambra Visentin, published on our Italian website on January 7, 2022
Russian-led armed forces have arrived airborne in Kazakhstan at the request of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who is expected to address the nation today to explain the violent crackdown...
By Ambra Visentin
What if the real target was Belarus all along? According to former Duma State deputy Ilya Ponomarev, the tension created at the Ukrainian border is actually nothing but a pretext to negotiate with the United States on...
