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Photo: U.S. vessels launch missiles in support of the Libyan Civil War. U.S. Navy photo.

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power

LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) - The French ambassador to the U.S. from 1902 to 1924, Jean-Jules Jusserand, observed that distant powers could not easily threaten the U.S. because “On the north, she has a weak neighbour; on the south, another weak neighbour; on the east fish and on the west, fish”.

The coming of the submarine-based nuclear missile has not changed that. Apart from the fact that no enemy would dare use them for fear of retaliation, and that there is no country in the world that feels that hostile to America (accept North Korea), the fact is America is too big and too far away to be invaded and dominated. There could not be a blitzkrieg by a foreign army across the mid-west or a Vichy America.

Photo: UN Mission Planning team carries out its first regional visit. UN Photo

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power

LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) - After 52 years of fighting between the Colombian government and FARC, the left wing, drug-dealing, Marxist, guerrilla grouping, there is a peace agreement.

I’ve always wondered why the U.S. and NATO never intervened militarily. They should have if they were to be consistent. Colombia has long been exhibit A for those who say, “Look what happens when the outside world doesn’t intervene – the local fires just burn brighter and fiercer”. (And it has been said likewise for Sri Lanka during its civil war.)

By Kazuo Ishiwatari

The author is Executive Director, Peace and Global Issues, Soka Gakkai International (SGI). Following is the text of his remarks in Panel Session IV: Initiatives and campaigns – legislators, religious leaders and civil society' on the occasion of the International conference: Building a nuclear-weapon-free world on August 29, 2016 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

ASTANA (IDN-IINPS) - We are standing at an important juncture in history. Calls for a legal prohibition or banning of nuclear weapons are mounting as a first concrete step toward a world finally and permanently free from nuclear weapons.

Photo: A carnival float in Duesseldorf depicts Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Turkish President Erdoğan, 2016. Abu Bakr is the leader of the Sunni militant jihadist organisation known as the ISIS_Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which controls territory in western Iraq, Syria, Libya and Afghanistan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Viewpoint by Jonathan Power

LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) - Politicians have it in their DNA to hype our supposed present dangers. So do journalists. So does the military-industrial complex. So do certain think tanks and university professors who depend on sounding the alarm about this and that to gain grants from foundations.

When Leon Panetta was defence secretary under President Barack Obama he was not atypical when he said that any defence cuts would undermine the military’s “ability to protect the nation” and reductions would “invite aggression”.

Ramesh Jaura, a German national, is the recipient of the ‘Federal Cross on Ribbon’, awarded by the Federal President of Germany in June 1996, for promoting international understanding.

He is co-founder, Director-General and Editor-in-Chief of the International Press Syndicate (INPS) Group, with IDN-InDepthNews as its flagship agency. INPS headquarters are in Canada and Germany and associate headquarters in Japan and Singapore.

The International Press Syndicate's IDN-InDepthNews, online since 2009, and its other issue- focused websites – SDGs for All and Toward a Nuclear Free World offer news and analysis that go beyond breaking the news.

Ramesh Jaura has been a professional journalist for nearly 55 years. He started his career as a journalist in India at the age of 22 – after obtaining a Master of Arts degree from the University of Delhi.

In 1968 he travelled to Europe and reported for over nine months from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, Austria, Germany and France.

In 1970, he returned to Europe to report from West Berlin, Bonn, Budapest, Prague and Warsaw for several Indian and UAE weekly newspapers. Since then, he has been in Germany.

He has been a frequent participant in TV talk shows in Germany on international relations.

Ramesh Jaura has visited Kazakhstan five times – and initiated IDN journalistic coverage of the country, writing about cultural, social, economic and political issues.

18 October 2019

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