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Cracks Widen in Syrian Economy

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mona Alami BEIRUT, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) - As the Syrian uprising enters its tenth month, the country’s economy is suffering. Since last March, the Syrian government has been cracking down on pro-democracy protests, and the once peaceful uprising … [Read More...]

U.S.: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not Big Banks

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) - Occupy activists from Wall Street to San Francisco's financial district have dramatised their anger with big financial institutions by blocking JP Morgan Chase Bank doorways, dancing … [Read More...]

GREECE: Austerity Plan Breaches Last Line of Defence of Greek Workers

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) - As the Eurozone falls deeper into its sovereign debt crisis, the labour movement in Greece is being cudgelled to its knees by an austerity programme that has so far failed to bring any positive … [Read More...]

Nigeria Turning to a Powder Keg

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis A wind of disgruntlement is blowing across Nigeria. There are fears that, unless President Jonathan steadies the ship of state, divisions within the polity and the rising discontent could be hijacked by political … [Read More...]

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Using Ocean Temperature Differences to Create Renewable Energy

Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is an idea for creating renewable energy by exploiting the difference in ocean temperatures between the surface and the seabed. The OTEC permit office first opened in … [Read More...]

SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jared Ferrie PIBOR, South Sudan , Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) - In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she … [Read More...]

HIZBUT-TAHRIR ( HT) STEPS UP ATTEMPTS TO SUBVERT BD ARMY

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN It is learnt from reliable sources that the Bangladesh authorities suspect that the Hizbut-Tahrir (HT), Party of Liberation, banned in October 2009 had links with 16 middle-level officers of the Bangladesh Army involved in the plot to stage a … [Read More...]

MIDEAST: Into an Unsettled New Year

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mya Guarnieri HEBRON, Jan 22, 2012 (IPS) - An elderly Palestinian woman spent last week on hunger strike to protest violent attacks by Israeli settlers. Hana Abu Heikel went on the hunger strike on behalf of her family after settlers burned the … [Read More...]

IMF Seeks Asia’s Help to Tackle Eurocrisis

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By J. C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – When an international commission headed by Nobel laureate Willy Brandt drew attention to global economic interdependence in its report in 1980, the world was divided between rich North and … [Read More...]

GERMANY: While Some Waste, Others Feast

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy HAMBURG, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) - Shortly before midnight last Saturday, Alexander, a 24-year-old law student, stepped out of his small apartment in Hamburg and set off for a jaunt around the local supermarkets to pilfer their garbage … [Read More...]

RUSSIA: ‘Repression May Lead to Revolt’

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS PRAGUE, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) - The Russian opposition movement which has risen to prominence since the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections has not said its last word, says 35-year-old Sergey Udaltsov, one of its most visible figures. Leader of the leftist … [Read More...]

TURKEY: Filtering Out Internet Freedom

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS ANKARA, Jan 19, 2012 (IPS) - Fifteen respected academics from different Turkish universities signed a declaration in Ankara last week protesting recent state regulations restricting access to a variety of websites on ‘moral’ and ‘national … [Read More...]

CHINA: Dragon Drags the World In

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Antoaneta Becker LONDON, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) - Chinese fengshui masters have been busy advising edgy followers how to optimise their luck in the auspicious but volatile Year of the Dragon, which according to the lunar calendar begins on Jan.23. In … [Read More...]

A Heaping Helping of Ridicule for the Fed, Please

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally published on The Guardian Unlimited, January 18, 2012 See the article on the original website By Dean Baker In keeping with its policy of releasing transcripts with a five-year lag, the Federal Reserve Board just released the … [Read More...]

Egypt Continues March to Democracy

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Woman casting her vote By Ernest Corea* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - As the January 23 deadline for the inauguration of Egypt’s first post-Mubarak People’s Assembly (parliament) approaches, the thoughts of politically … [Read More...]

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Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of shale gas wells are being "fracked" in the United States and Canada, allowing large amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, to escape into the … [Read More...]

BELARUS: Political Prisoners Facing Oppression

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Robert Stefanicki WARSAW, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) - "I had to fight to be treated like a human, not animal," dissident Nikolai Avtukhovich wrote from prison. Last month Avtukhovich, Belarusian political activist and entrepreneur, convicted … [Read More...]

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Informal Economy Ensures Equitable Development

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Catherine Wilson PORT MORESBY, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) - Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living. The need for a grassroots-led economic enterprise to … [Read More...]

U.S.: "Money Isn’t Speech, Corporations Aren’t People"

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D'Almeida NEW YORK, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) - In most mainstream media the words "corruption" and "election fraud" accompany images of makeshift polling stations manned by armed guards in Burma or burning tires beside … [Read More...]

EUROPE: Unrest Spread Eastwards

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Zoltan Dujisin BUDAPEST, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) - Protests in Hungary and Romania are the first signs of anti-systemic mobilisation in the Eastern half of the continent. While protests in both countries indicate dissatisfaction with their … [Read More...]

China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development

Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary … [Read More...]

FUTURE OF KASHMIRI PANDITS

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN It is 23 years today since Jammu & Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), from their homeland at the instigation of Pakistan’s Inter-Services … [Read More...]

INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By K.S. Harikrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) - Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains … [Read More...]

Pakistan to Produce Gas – by Burning Underground Coal

Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com As we start a new year, consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer. With about 50 per cent less electricity generation capability than the actual … [Read More...]

THAILAND: Malay-Muslim Insurgency – Lessons Learnt

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Jan 17 , 2012 (IPS) - Teachers’ Day on Jan. 16 was a sombre affair in Thailand’s troubled southern provinces where memories are strong of 155 educators killed over the past eight years in an insurgency led by … [Read More...]

Eurozone Crisis Enters New Phase as ECB Fights Europe for Austerity

Repubished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), December 7, 2011 Read the article on the original site. By Mark Weisbrot The house is on fire and the owners are arguing about what kind of safety regulations should be implemented in the future so as to … [Read More...]

INDIA: Industrial Pollution Brings Crocodile Tears

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Malini Shankar DANDELI, India, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) - Industrial pollution from a paper manufacturing factory in one of India’s most precious biodiversity hotspots is wreaking havoc on the local ecology, driving up the population of wild … [Read More...]

U.S.: Occupy Targets Foreclosures

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr   People march through West Oakland to the foreclosed home now owned by Fannie Mae that will be occupied as a community centre. Credit:Judith Scherr/IPS Buy this picture OAKLAND, California, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) - Five … [Read More...]

OPENING-UP OF MYANMAR

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2,2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar--- the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955--- indicated the growing self-confidence of President Thein Sein … [Read More...]

Brazil Pushes for Sustainable Development Goals

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 6, 2011 (IPS) - With seven months to go until the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, Brazil is uniting in support of proposals to be included in the summit's draft final document, which aim to … [Read More...]

CLIMATE CHANGE: Biofuels Are Not the Solution

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Nnimmo Bassey * DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 5, 2011 (Tierramérica) - Science tells us that we are heading for a climate crisis, yet it is within our means to change course. However, some very worrying false solutions are on the table in the … [Read More...]

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Angels Invest Where Banks Dither

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – For innovative young folks, angels are by no means mythical beings or messengers of God as depicted in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and the Quran. They are flesh-and-blood source of equity capital at the seed and early stage of [...]

Solar Yacht Sails Around the World Powered by Nothing More than the Sun

Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. James Burgess of Oilprice.com The World Future Energy Summit has recently finished in Abu Dhabi and for me one of the highlights was the Turanor, an impressive solar powered yacht designed and built by Planet Solar. It is the largest boat of its kind to ever sail [...]

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19 Million Jobs For U.S. Workers: The Impact Of Channeling $1.4 Trillion In Excess Liquid Asset Holdings Into Productive Investments

A new report is available at the Political Economy Research Institue, PERI. 19 Million Jobs For U.S. Workers: The Impact Of Channeling $1.4 Trillion In Excess Liquid Asset Holdings Into Productive Investments Pollin, Robert | Heintz, James | Garrett-Peltier, Heidi | Wicks-Lim, Jeannette | 12/5/2011 Download the full report from the PERI Website 1.2 MB [...]

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Banks Holding 1.4 Trillion, Could Create 19 Million Jobs

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INEQUALITY DESTROYS LIVES

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when…


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“Occupy” Actions Across the Country

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November 18, 2011

In DC and other cities, demonstrators rally at bridges


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From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Nation in just two months

This is a real populist movement–against our financial and political plutocracy Aricans who flew bombing missions in World War II had a saying: "You know you’re on target when you start getting a lot of flak." The protesters in today’s nascent "Occupy Wall Street" movement must really be on target, then, because–boy!–they’re enduring an unrelenting [...]

Books

Book: Alan Fogelquist, Politics and Economic Policy in Yugoslavia, 1918-1929

Politics and Economic Policy in Yugoslavia, 1918-1929 By Alan Fogelquist View this Author’s Spotlight Paperback, 502 pages Preview List Price: $29.50 Price: $22.13 You Save: $7.37 ( 25% )   Ships in 3–5 business days This study, based on the author’s doctoral dissertation at UCLA, examines Yugoslav economic policy from 1918 to 1929, how it [...]

Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present [Hardcover]

Amazon.com: Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present (9781400041718): Jeff Madrick: Books   Jeff Madrick (Author) Review  “Jeff Madrick has written one of those rare, wonderful books that allow us to understand a huge and important historical development that we may not have realized was a [...]