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Strategic Patience can Mitigate Conflict Between Israel & Iran
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC/OXFORD, Oct 09 (IPS) - How will Israel respond to Iran's recent ballistic missiles barrage? "Strategic patience" is the best course. Israel has its hands full with Hamas and Hezbollah. Now is not the time to escalate a new major war with Iran, which could have nuclear implications.
Playing Nuclear Games: Tickling the Tail of the Promethean Nuclear Fire Dragon
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Austria, Oct 08 (IPS) - In recent years, the rhetoric, strategy and practice of nuclear deterrence has grown riskier, more urgent, more dangerous, less stable, and increasingly in the hands of deficient leaders and policymakers.
A Growing New Battle: Nuclear Weapons vs Conventional Arms
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 07 (IPS) - The warnings from the United Nations and from anti-nuclear activists are increasingly ominous: the world is closer to a nuclear war—by design or by accident—more than ever before.
“Escalation Dominance” . . . and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 07 (IPS) - Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: "A hundred Holocausts."
Empowering Change & Resilience: Social Protection in the Age of Megatrends
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Oct 07 (IPS) - Social protection systems are essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
However, social protection is insufficient across Asia and the Pacific, and the region is at risk from megatrends: climate change, demographic shifts and digitalization. Tens of millions of people have been pushed into extreme poverty since COVID-19, reversing past gains, and many millions more live precariously just above the poverty line.
Will Ukraine Benefit if IMF Ends its Punitive Fees on Debt Burdened Countries?
- Inter Press Service
KYIV, Ukraine, Oct 04 (IPS) - Over the coming month, the United States has a window of opportunity to lift a multi-billion-dollar burden from Ukraine, and other countries in financial distress, without costing the US taxpayer a dime.
The week the world comes to Manhattan: Looking back at UNGA79
- UN News
Every September when UN Headquarters in New York is swamped – massive motorcades, intense security, snipers on rooftops and world leaders descending along with throngs of diplomats, media and celebrities – it’s not easy to grasp what exactly is going on or what was achieved.
BRICS+ Prioritising Expansion to Fight Western Hegemony
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, Oct 03 (IPS) - In an interview with Sky News Arabia on September 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed scepticism but was straight to the point about the strategic expansion of BRICS, an association comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Under Russia's BRICS presidency which began in January 2024.
Chagos Islands: UK’s last African colony returned to Mauritius
- UN News
The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that agreement has been reached to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of dispute and negotiation over Britain’s last African colony.
Nuclear Annihilation Threatened by Revival of 20h Century McCarthy Era Cold War & Red Scare
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 02 (IPS) - The world may have dodged an immediate bullet when the US intelligence agencies warned, this week, that by giving in to Ukraine's pleading for long range missiles that could attack targets deep into Russia, we would be poking the Russian bear beyond its patience without even influencing the outcome of the war in Ukraine's favor.
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