By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online News The Hindu nationalist leader’s G20 Africa membership appeal casts him in a heroic, anti-imperialist glow. What does his silence on the same issue among BRICS members reveal? India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s recent call for the African Union’s full membership in the G20 in June 2023 revives the longstanding…
Can India Bring Russia and Ukraine to the Table?
What New Delhi’s Diplomacy Can and Cannot Achieve By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online News | August 2, 2023 It has become commonplace to suggest that the war in Ukraine is only a Western fixation. According to this argument, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has galvanized the West and inspired concerted action in defense of a democratic…
US Institute Of Diplomacy And Human Rights
Dear Members and Friends,US Institute Of Diplomacy And Human Rights and Community Center is closed today in observance of the Fourth of July Celebration. Make this Fourth of July memorable by counting your blessings and truly appreciating our freedom! God bless #America! Wishing you a joyful 4th of July celebration filled with pride, reflection, and inspiration. Remember, the…
Is Russia Losing Its Grip on Central Asia?
What China’s Growing Regional Ambitions Mean for Moscow By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online news Last month marked a diplomatic milestone for Chinese President Xi Jinping. He had invited the leaders of five Central Asian states to the city of Xian for their first-ever joint summit with China. The reception, with festivities worthy of an Olympic…
Russia’s New Time of Troubles
It’s Not 1917 in Moscow—It’s 1604 By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online news In the midst of the mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s brief rebellion on June 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin compared the “treason” of the Wagner paramilitary leader with the revolutionary turmoil of 1917. “Intrigues, squabbles, politicking behind the back of the army and the…
27 giugno 2023 – Parole chiare per capire il mondo in cui viviamo
Putin, il macellaio, si è nascosto. Prigozhin, suo ex amico e capo della Wagner, dopo aver portato i suoi 25.000 uomini armati fino ai denti, a 200 km da Mosca, ha rinunciato al golpe ed è scappato anche lui. Non si sa esattamente cosa stia succedendo in Russia, sarà forse più chiaro nei prossimi giorni….
20 giugno 2023 – La direttrice del Salone del libro di Kiev: ‘Ci difendiamo anche con la cultura’
USIDHR: US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights FORZA IBRAHIM: By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online News Yulia Kozlovets Invece di continuare a preoccuparsi per le sorti dei capolavori di Pushkin, chiedetevi perché non sapete nulla di Shevchenko o dei grandi artisti ucraini. Chiedetevi come funziona la politica culturale di un paese colonialista. Chiedetevi perché insieme…
19 giugno 2023 – Perché tante persone si abbandonano all’irrazionalità quando si tratta “degli ebrei”?
Analisi di Pen Dr. Ibrahim online News , US Institute Of Diplomacy And Human Rights Nel 1945 George Orwell, uno dei pensatori più intensi del XX secolo, autore fra l’altro del romanzo distopico 1984, scrisse sulla natura dell’antisemitismo e le sue manifestazioni in un saggio intitolato “L’antisemitismo in Gran Bretagna”. Orwell concludeva che “una delle…
L’institut du monde arabe et l’exposition de la honte Michèle Mazel – Israel Magazine
Michèle Mazel L’Institut du monde arabe a été « conçu pour établir des liens forts et durables entre les cultures pour ainsi cultiver un véritable dialogue entre le monde arabe, la France et l’Europe. » La fondation qui le finance a été créée en commun par la France, l’Algérie, l’Arabie saoudite, Bahreïn, Djibouti, les Émirats arabes unis,…
To Protect Europe, Let Ukraine Join NATO—Right Now
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Kyiv, April 2023 – Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / Handout / Reuters No Country Is Better at Stopping Russia By a Pen Dr. Ibrahim Online News | June 1, 2023 In July, the heads of NATO’s 31 countries will convene in Vilnius, Lithuania, for a summit—their…
Can the Two-State Solution Be Saved?
Debating Israel’s One-State Reality By Pen Dr. Ibrahim Online News i | May 31, 2023 DANGEROUS DELUSIONS Michael Oren Anyone seeking to understand why U.S. policy in the Middle East keeps failing—especially on the Israeli-Palestinian issue—need only read “Israel’s One-State Reality” (May/June 2023) by Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami. The essay suffers from the…
Spying for Human Rights
Photos of the war in Ukraine displayed on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 2022 – Sarah Silbiger / Reuters Why Documenting Abuses Should Be Part of the Intelligence Community’s Job By Pen Dr. Ibrahim Online News – Moment RESEARCH Consultancy | May 31, 2023 The U.S. intelligence community appears to be doing more to document…
Diversifying the CIA
A Response to “How Secrecy Limits Diversity” May 23, 2023 To the Editor: Matthew Connelly and Patricia Irvin raised several important points in their recent article about the need for greater diversity in the U.S. intelligence community (“How Secrecy Limits Diversity,” May 12, 2023). From the perspective of the CIA, we are working hard to create a…
Sudan: As the generals fight, who’s playing chess with the old Islamists?
By: Pen Dr. Ibrahim Online News The clash between Burhan and Hemedti was inevitable. In the mediation scramble, nobody can afford to side with Bashir’s Islamists. At 10 am on the second day of fighting in Khartoum, I called my aunt in her village close to Shendi, 150 km north of Khartoum. I wanted to…
Sudan: The quiet scramble to broker the peace
By: Pen Dr. Ibrahim Online News The Horn’s geopolitics are increasingly shaped by rich Gulf hegemons who view the region as a theatre for their competing interests. On 16 April, a day after the fighting broke out in Khartoum, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), held an emergency Heads of State summit. It was attended…
Sudan: Calling it a fight between the generals is simplistic
By : Pen Dr. Ibrahim Online News Northern and Central elites have always prosecuted violence from the centre. Now, the periphery brought the eternal war to Khartoum. Violence is not new to Sudan. Military rule has plagued the country since independence, despite the Sudanese people’s peaceful overthrow of military regimes in 1964, 1985, and 2019 and their vow…
The New Meaning of Hiroshima
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits a mass grave in Bucha, Ukraine, March 2023 – At Japan’s G-7 Summit, We Must Both Defend Global Order and Address Global Crises By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online news| May 19, 2023 From May 19 to 21, I am hosting the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom,…
The Palestinian Succession Crisis
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank, January 2023 – A Contest to Succeed President Abbas Could Destabilize the Region By PEN DR. Ibrahim online news | May 16, 2023 In 2005, Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a four-year term as president of the Palestinian Authority, filling the vacancy left by the death of Yasir…
Nigeria Is Boiling
Opposition supporters protest the election result in Abuja, Nigeria, March 2023 – Can a New President Hold the Country Together? By Pen Dr.Ibrahim online news| May 15, 2023 Nigeria’s February 2023 general election should have been a triumph of democracy. For the first time since the country transitioned from military to civilian rule in 1999, no…
The Global Economy’s Future Depends on Africa
Playing soccer in Soweto, South Africa, August 2020 – Siphiwe Sibeko As Others Slow, a Youthful Continent Can Drive Growth By Pen Dr. Ibrahim| May 18, 2023 In recent decades, the engine of the world economy has been the spectacular growth of China. From 1980 to 2020, fully one-quarter of the increase in global GDP was…
To Compete With China on Tech, America Needs to Fix Its Immigration System
Washington Must Make It Easier to Recruit and Retain Top Talent By PenDr.Ibrahim | May 16, 2023 When the U.S. Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022, it committed $53 billion to fund semiconductor research and manufacturing in the United States. As a result of this legislation, advanced chip manufacturers have been racing to…
Sudan: Revolutionary reflections, amid a raging war
BY MAY 5, 2023 – Pen DR. Ibrahim online news Protesters in Khartoum celebrating the fall of Omar al-Bashir, July 2019. Courtesy: Prachatai The current fighting between military factions in Sudan must be seen against the backdrop of the Sudanese revolution that started in December 2018. This popular revolt against the entire power system led to the fall of…
How Secrecy Limits Diversity
The CIA headquarters in Langley, United States, July 2022 – Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Security-Clearance Process Keeps Many Qualified People Out of America’s National Security Workforce By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online news | May 12, 2023 In December 2022, the Department of Energy announced that it was righting a historic wrong. After an unprecedented reexamination of…
Beyond Ukraine’s Offensive
A Ukrainian service member firing an antitank grenade near Bakhmut, Ukraine, May 2023 – Sofiia Gatilova / Reuters The West Needs to Prepare the Country’s Military for a Long War By Michael Kofman and Rob Lee | May 10, 2023 As the Russian winter offensive reaches its culmination, Ukraine is poised to seize the initiative. In the…
How to Spot an Autocrat’s Economic Lies
The Jin Mao tower skywalk in Shanghai, May 2021 – Aly Song / Reuters In China and Elsewhere, Forget the Numbers—Look at the Lights By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online NEWS| May 10, 2023 Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s 1984, spends his days as an employee at the Ministry of Truth adjusting documents to conform to…
The Path to a New Iran Deal
Regional Agreement Could Succeed Where Washington Failed By Pen Dr. Ibrahim online news| May 8, 2023 It has been exactly five years since former U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and more than two years since current U.S. President Joe Biden launched his drive to restore it. But despite high…
Orders of Disorder
Who Disbanded Iraq’s Army and De-Baathified Its Bureaucracy? By PenDr.Ibrahim online news | May 5, 2023 The history of Iraq was already being rewritten by L. Paul Bremer on his flight into Baghdad. It was May 2003, and Bremer, an experienced former ambassador and bureaucratic player—he’d served as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s chief of staff—was just…
Turkey’s Resilient Autocrat
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters in Ankara, Turkey, April 2023 – Cagla Gurdogan / Reuters How the Levers of State—and Powerful Friends—Could Help Erdogan Win His Toughest Election By : Pen Dr. Ibrahim online news | May 4, 2023 In late February, after a huge earthquake devastated a large swath of his country, Turkish…
03 maggio 2023 – La lezione di Orwell
Carlo Rovelli è perfettamente titolato a criticare il sostegno italiano all’Ucraina aggredita e massacrata da Putin, a definire “piazzisti di strumenti di morte” coloro che lavorano nell’industria militare e persino a dubitare che la Resistenza italiana sia stata “effettivamente una guerra di liberazione” (come ha detto in tv qualche giorno prima di intervenire al concertone…
30 aprile 2023 – “Israele, i primi 75 anni” – parte 1.
Pen Dr. Ibrahim NEWS Immaginiamo un suono di cornamuse. È la sera del 14 maggio 1948. Sta per nascere lo Stato di Israele. Nelle antiche strade della Città Vecchia, la struggente melodia annuncia la partenza dei soldati britannici, che hanno occupato Gerusalemme per trent’anni. Alle finestre delle abitazioni o sulle soglie delle sinagoghe, vecchi dalle…
30 aprile 2023 – Israele, i primi 75 anni” – parte 2.
segue dalla pagina precedente Ma i nazisti perdono la guerra, Hitler si suicida, il Muftì fugge e una terribile scoperta contribuisce a rafforzare l’idea di un “focolare nazionale ebraico”: l’orrore dell’Olocausto. Si profila così una soluzione “salomonica”: dividere la Palestina britannica fra i due litiganti. Il pomeriggio del 29 novembre 1947 i rappresentanti di 56…
“Israele, i primi 75 anni” – parte 3.
critici dell’operazione Furore di Dio la condannano come una campagna di assassinii politici, resa ancora più problematica, in un episodio in Norvegia, dall’uccisione della persona sbagliata. Ricorda Aron Yariv, un generale israeliano a capo dell’operazione: «Mandare un commando a uccidere era moralmente accettabile? Questo può essere discutibile. Ma era politicamente necessario? Assolutamente sì. Non avevamo…
“Medemer Generation”(MEDGEN): Tip of the Spear for Ethiopia’s Peace, Prosperity and Progress (Part I)
Posted inEuro Africa By Pen Dr. Ibrahim114 – On April 7, 2023 » Pen Dr. Ibrahim114 » “Medemer Generation”(MEDGEN): Tip of the Spear for Ethiopia’s Peace, Prosperity and Progress (Part I) Reviewer’s Note: This is an “interpretive book review” of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s (hereinafter “Abiy”, “the author”) latest book, “Medemer Generation.” My review is not a conventional…
On the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM: No room for business as usual
Jeremy Hopkins , Frederika Meijer , Sunday 6 Feb 2022 Last week, the Child Helpline received a call about a midwife who was going to perform Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on five girls in a village in Assiut. Luckily, they moved quickly to save the girls and stop the crime before it took place. In…
A Turning Point in Criticism of Israeli Human Rights Policies
This past month, we were treated to a few classic examples of how Israel deals with criticism and how it may be finding it increasingly difficult to dodge challenges to its abusive behaviors. Example 1. On January 12, 2022, Omar Abdulmajeed Assad died at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces. He didn’t just die….
The emerging new global order — IV: Russia
Can the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin suggest clues to Russia’s place in the emerging new global order, asks Human RIGHTS Consultant In one of the most memorable works of Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, the protagonist’s most satisfying conquest turns into his most heartbreaking mistake. But it is his inner feelings about the combination…
The Chinese response
By Virtual Event Consulting – Thursday 16 Dec 2021 Reviews how China has dealt with Biden’s Democracy Summit I have visited China twice. The first time was in the aftermath of the “Asian economic crisis”, after India and Pakistan conducted their first nuclear tests. These two earth-shattering events led the Al Moment editor-in-chief to organise an…
THE GRAND U.N. CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY ETHIOPIA BY “HUMANITARIAN AID”: I TOLD YOU SO ON DECEMBER 26, 2020!
Human RIGHTS Consultant Commentaries » THE GRAND U.N. CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY ETHIOPIA BY “HUMANITARIAN AID”: I TOLD YOU SO ON DECEMBER 26, 2020! Posted in PenDrIbrahim By Human RIGHTS Consultant On October 17, 2021 The United Nations was created not to lead mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.” — Dag Hammarskjold, Second Secretary-General of the United…
Roma sotto attacco dell’estrema destra no vax
Human RIGHTS Consultant 11. Oct. 2021 – L’attacco era pianificato. Volevano Palazzo Chigi e poi colpire altre città’ -.Una immagine della manifestazione contro il Green Pass organizzata dall’estrema destra Chi sabato è venuto a Roma per protestare contro il Green Pass, aveva in mente un’altra capitale. Washington. E, in particolare, l’assalto a Capitol Hill del…
To Human Rights First, it’s “Peaceful dissent”!
In light of the Riyadh Arab-Islamic-American Summit, we need to go back and visit an earlier article that appeared as President El-Sisi was about to meet President Trump in a formal visit to Washington in April, 2017 Human Rights First article, “Sisi’s Egypt is a Poor Partner for the United States in the Fight Against…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, it set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. The Declaration was adopted by the UN General Assembly…
DICHIARAZIONE UNIVERSALE DEI DIRITTI UMANI
Il 10 dicembre 1948, l’Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite approvò e proclamò la Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani, il cui testo completo è stampato nelle pagine seguenti. Dopo questa solenne deliberazione, l’Assemblea delle Nazioni Unite diede istruzioni al Segretario Generale di provvedere a diffondere ampiamente questa Dichiarazione e, a tal fine, di pubblicarne e distribuirne…
I lavori dell’Oslo Freedom Forum
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