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COLOMBIA: Voices of Women Peace Activists Silenced

Global Geopolitics Viewpoints / IPS By Helda Martínez – IPS/TerraViva BOGOTÁ, Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) – "When we women speak out, without showing fear, we pay a high price: living with that fear," says one peace activist in Colombia. "The threats will not stop us from working for peace and social justice," says another. Their [...]

NEPAL: Militarising or Demilitarising?

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, November 05, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Rita Manchanda KATHMANDU, Nov 5 (IPS) – Fighting a decade long ‘People’s War’ for the revolutionary transformation of a feudal monarchy meant that the Maoists had to militarise Nepali society, including women and youth. However, even [...]

OBAMA:DANGERS OF INDO-PAK RE-HYPHENATION

Global Geopolitics Net Sites Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN The Presidential campaign is over. The transition drill has begun. Senator Barrack Obama will take over as the President only on January 20 next, but his immense work as the President-elect would have already begun from [...]

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Army Chief Steps Down

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, November 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Nov 4 (IPS) – General Mario Montoya stepped down as Colombia’s army chief, putting an end to his career Tuesday. The general is under investigation by the attorney general’s office, although he has [...]

LEBANON: Another Rupture Sealed, For Now

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, November 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Mona Alami BEIRUT, Nov 3 (IPS) – Over the past few months, Tripoli, a large harbour city sitting on Lebanon’s northern shores, known for its mazy souks, century-old mansions and oriental sweets, has made front [...]

ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Crisis Delays Threat of ‘Venezuelan Disease’

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, November 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 4 (IPS) – The global financial crisis has corrected the extreme overvaluation of Brazil’s local currency, caused by the policies of its Central Bank, thus temporarily chasing away fears [...]

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: UN Warns of Civilian Killings by Military

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, November 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Nov 3 (IPS) – The extrajudicial executions that are being committed by government forces in Colombia constitute crimes against humanity, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said at the [...]

POLITICS-US – Racism Won’t Keep Arab Americans From Polls

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, November 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Habib Battah NEW YORK, Nov 3 (IPS) – Arab Americans are expected to vote in large numbers Tuesday, despite concerns over voter intimidation and weak outreach from the presidential candidates, representatives of major community organisations say. [...]

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DRC: The Cost of War

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stephanie Kale KIGALI, Nov 8 (IPS) – War is expensive. The costs include not only the millions of dollars spent on military equipment and maintaining an army, but the financial and psychological toll it takes on the everyday lives of people caught in the crossfire. When fighting takes place [...]

POLITICS-US: Can Naturalised Citizens Tip the Balance?

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, November 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Nuzhat Naoreen The Korean-American civic group YKASEC says it has registered more than 26,000 people to vote since 2004. NEW YORK, Nov 3 (IPS) – Juan Carlos Jimenez had already lived legally in the United [...]

AFGHANISTAN: ‘If Talks With Taliban Bring Peace, I’ll Support It’

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, November 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Anand Gopal KABUL, Nov 3 (IPS) – Western officials are increasingly turning to new strategies in an effort to stabilise Afghanistan and defeat the insurgency here, according to U.S. and Afghan officials. The various [...]

THE INDIAN JIHADI NET

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 465 Global News Blog – Global Geopolitics Net Monday, November 03, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN The number of fatalities in the serial explosions in Assam on the forenoon of October 30,2008, has since gone up to 75, with the death of some of [...]

Time to address trust deficit between Colombo and Tamils

Global Geopolitics Net Sites Monday, November 03, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. Sunday, November 02, 2008 By Malladi Rama Rao What a spat it was? It had turned upside down the logic of campaign journalists on either side of the Palk Strait. No surprise, therefore, all those in Colombo who [...]

PERU: Free Trade Opens Environmental Window

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, November 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica LIMA, Nov 1 (IPS) – Legislative decree 1090, which modifies Peru’s forest policy, is worrying U.S. trade authorities because it contravenes environmental clauses of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that is to [...]

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POLITICS-US: Yes, He Could Obama Handily Takes White House

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, November 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (IPS) – In a historic victory, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has been elected the 44th president of the United States. Obama, the first African American to be elected to the nation’s [...]

CHINESE ECONOMY MONITOR—NOTE No.3

Global Geopolitics Net Sites – Global Intel Net Tuesday, November 04, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – Chennai Center for China Studies www.c3sindia.org B.RAMAN ( What will be the impact of the global financial and economic melt-down on the Chinese economy? This question should be of interest to the other countries of the South and [...]

POLITICS-US: Massive Turnout Expected to Tip Vote for Obama

Global Geopolitics Net Sites – Global Intel Net / IPS Tuesday, November 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Jim Lobe John McCain (left) and Barack Obama (right) have together spent more than a billion dollars on their campaigns – about 8 dollars per vote. WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (IPS) – [...]

TIBET: ‘STATUS QUO PLUS’ AS AN OPTION?

Global Geopolitics Net Sites Monday, November 03, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN There is a note of increasing dejection in the post-Olympics statements and comments of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his spokesmen regarding the future of Tibet. His hopes that in the wake of the protest [...]

POLITICS-US: Two, Three, Many Grand Bargains?

Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, November 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (IPS) – As the United States waded ever deeper into the Indochinese quagmire in the early 1960s, the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara called for ”two, three, many Vietnams” to [...]

LTTE AIR WING STRIKES AGAIN

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.463 Global Intel Net – Global Geopolitics Net Sites Wednesday, October 29, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN The air wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) carried out two attacks within an interval of about 90 minutes on a military target in the [...]

US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: WAITING FOR OBL

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO 461 Global Geopolitics Net Sites – Global Intel Net Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN It is just one week before the US Presidential elections. We all know all that we want to know about the two candidates Senators John McCain of [...]

EU courts Asia, banks on China

Global Geopolitics Net Sites Monday, October 27, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Susenjit Guha. All rights reserved. By Susenjit Guha European Commission President Jose Barroso, who is also a former prime minister of Portugal, urged China, India and Japan to “be on board” at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing over the weekend. “It’s very simple: we [...]