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The Pirate Party Knows Where the Money Is
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Al Jazeera English, May 14, 2012 See the article on the original website By Dean Baker One of the oddities of recent election results in Germany and elsewhere in northern Europe is the rise of the Pirate Party. This party received 7.8 … [Read More...]
Round One to Radical Left, Round Two to Europe?
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 12, 2012 (IPS) - Kosmas Bitros (29) didn’t "believe in politics and in elections as a way of changing society". Still, he showed up at the ballot boxes for the first time last Sunday to cast a … [Read More...]
Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2012 (IPS) - Although Mexico has signed several multilateral anti-corruption agreements, so far these instruments have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement, … [Read More...]
Greeks Gear Up to Cast ‘Protest Votes’ Against Austerity
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 3, 2012 (IPS) - Aggeliki Anagnostopoulou (30) sits in a corner of the huge room that volunteers from the new party, Independent Greeks, are using as a headquarters for their pre-election campaign in the … [Read More...]
Previous News & Analysis
Journalism is Not ‘More Fun’ in the Philippines
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Dennis Engbarth MANILA, May 10, 2012 (IPS) - Reporters working in the Philippines, the world’s third most dangerous nation for journalists, are having difficulty identifying with the "It’s More Fun in the Philippines" tourism … [Read More...]
Chinese Dissident Chen Seeks U.S. Exile Deal
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents * DOHA, May 3, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he wants to leave for the U.S. rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the U.S. embassy in Beijing and … [Read More...]
Refugees Dream of Return, Come Home to Nightmare
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, May 3, 2012 (IPS) - Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the … [Read More...]
Lebanese Groups Arming Syrian Unrest
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zak Brophy BEIRUT, May 3, 2012 (IPS) - The Lebanese army seized a ship last weekend carrying three containers filled with weapons reportedly intended for Syria’s rebel fighters. Although Lebanon has remained relatively stable throughout the … [Read More...]
Top 5 Figures Influencing Renewable Energy in the U.S.
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Jen Alic of Oilprice.com As Oilprice.com embarks on its Top 5 series, we thought it expedient to begin with our take on the key figures shaping and influencing U.S. renewable energy efforts, not least because the issue of energy security … [Read More...]
Business20 Makes Its Weight Felt at G20 Meeting
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) - The concerns of the business community basically monopolised the first day of the meeting of trade and economy ministers of the G20 group of industrialised and emerging countries in this … [Read More...]
Malaysia’s New Security Act Spares Politicians
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) - Malaysia’s new internal security law is as draconian as the colonial law it has replaced, but has the saving grace that it will not target political opponents of the government, say critics. … [Read More...]
Brazilian Favela Becomes a Living Museum
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) - The history, daily life and folk artistry as well as spectacular views of this southeastern Brazilian city are all part of a living museum created by community leaders in a favela that is … [Read More...]
Last Summit of the Americas Without Cuba
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Constanza Vieira CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, Colombia, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) - "What matters at this summit is not what is on the official agenda," said Uruguayan analyst Laura Gil, echoing the conventional wisdom in this Colombian port city, … [Read More...]
Afghanistan: The Quagmire of U.S. Occupation
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Nicole Colson* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis CHICAGO (IDN) - The U.S. war and occupation of Afghanistan was supposed to bring stability and democracy. Instead, Afghanistan remains a country on the brink of disaster – one that has clearly been … [Read More...]
Featured Articles
COLOMBIA-U.S.: Trade Deal "Throws Country into Jaws of Multinationals," Critics Say
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Helda Martínez* BOGOTÁ, May 16, 2012 (IPS) - The entry into force of Colombia’s free trade agreement with the United States was met by student protests and opposition from a segment of the business community, small farmers, and trade … [Read More...]
Rising Resource Demand A Big Challenge
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Credit: Transatlantic AcademyBy J.C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – "Unless the transatlantic community takes the lead in addressing the challenges arising from the unprecedented global demand for land, energy, food, water, … [Read More...]
An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente * BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2012 (Tierramérica) - The controversial concept of degrowth receives little press coverage in a region like Latin America. But the idea of a way of life that is not aimed exclusively at GDP growth does … [Read More...]
U.N. Warns of Social Fall-Out from Spain’s Austerity Plan
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, May 10, 2012 (IPS) - An expert body of the United Nations has warned the Spanish government that the severe budget cutbacks it is applying must not undermine its commitment to upholding the economic, social and cultural … [Read More...]
China: Behind and Beyond Bo Xilai’s Sacking
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis http://www.indepthnews.net/ NEW DELHI (IDN) - Much has been written about Bo Xilai, the charismatic party secretary of the southwestern city of Chongqing who was sacked from the 25-member Politburo of the Communist … [Read More...]
Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil’s Favelas
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet NOVA IGUAÇU, Brazil, May 2, 2012 (IPS) - Women in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of this city 40 km north of Rio de Janeiro no longer have to spend money on vegetables, because they have learned to grow their own, as … [Read More...]
Cashew Producers’ Pain Is Intermediaries’ Gain in Senegal
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Koffigan E. Adigbli ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal, May 3, 2012 (IPS) - Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits. The Casamance region … [Read More...]
U.S.-Afghan Pact Won’t End War – Or SOF Night Raids
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS) - The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration's "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accompanying it emphasise … [Read More...]
Impassioned Plea for Averting War with Iran
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsReport LONDON (IDN) - Pax Christi, the International Catholic Movement for Peace, has made an impassioned plea for averting war with Iran. "Surely such a war would spell worldwide disaster, and it's up to movements like us to … [Read More...]
What The Arab Spring Means For Freedom
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Megan Martin* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) - Wielding mobile phones and computers, the young activists across the Middle East have altered the way the world approaches popular mobilization, social networks and Internet … [Read More...]
Protest Time in Tunisia Again
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jake Lippincott TUNIS, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) - Thousands of centre-left demonstrators violently clashed with police in street battles that completely shut down central Tunis last week, left scores seriously injured and underlined the persistent … [Read More...]
Argentina’s Critics Get it Wrong Again
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on The Guardian Unlimited, April 18, 2012 See the article on the original website. Mark Weisbrot The Argentine government’s decision to re-nationalize its formerly state-owned oil and gas company, YPF, has been greeted with howls … [Read More...]
The War on Public Sector Workers
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Truthout, April 16, 2012 See the article on the original website By Dean Baker Politicians across the country are using heaping doses of the politics of envy to try to arouse the anger of workers. However, their targets are not the … [Read More...]
Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Andrew Green* JUBA, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) - As the process of reintegrating South Sudan’s child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers from … [Read More...]
Standing Down as Iran’s Power Struggle Unfolds
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Jen Alic of Oilprice.com A strike on Iran, however limited, would push the current internal power struggle to a premature end that would not be in the US' best interests - that is the message, whether intentional or not, of the recent … [Read More...]
GREECE-CYPRUS-ISRAEL ENERGY TRIANGLE: DYNAMICS AND POTENTIALS IN THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN BASIN
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Republished with the author's permission Read the article in the original form on the RIEAS site. Petros Makris-Kourkoulos (RIEAS Research Associate and Energy Security Analyst) In the mid-60s, John F. Kennedy stated the famous geography has made us … [Read More...]
Recent News & Analysis
GEORGIA: Tbilisi Walks Diplomatic High Wire on Iranian Nuclear Issue
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Giorgi Lomsadze* TBILISI, May 15, 2012 (IPS/EurasiaNet) – Georgia is clearly the closest U.S. ally in the South Caucasus, moving in lockstep with American interests on just about every foreign policy issue – except one: Iran. Not wanting to become embroiled in a potential regional conflict, officials [...]
Ratko Mladic Goes on Trial for Genocide
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, May 16, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special U.N. court at The Hague in the Netherlands. Prosecutors at the [...]
Noteworthy
First-time Homebuyer Tax Credit was Temporary Fix At Best
The credit led to an enormous transfer of wealth to sellers and lenders at the expense of buyers. For Immediate Release: April 18, 2012 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 Washington, D.C.- In February of 2009, with the housing market in a free fall, Congress decided to add a first-time homebuyer tax credit to the [...]
Videos
What Americans can Learn from Eurocrisis
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May 10, 2012
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Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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- GEORGIA: Tbilisi Walks Diplomatic High Wire on Iranian Nuclear Issue
- COLOMBIA-U.S.: Trade Deal "Throws Country into Jaws of Multinationals," Critics Say
- Rising Resource Demand A Big Challenge
- Ratko Mladic Goes on Trial for Genocide
- The Pirate Party Knows Where the Money Is
- What Americans can Learn from Eurocrisis
- Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US
- Will New French President Challenge Germany?
- Round One to Radical Left, Round Two to Europe?
- Journalism is Not ‘More Fun’ in the Philippines
- An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth
- U.N. Warns of Social Fall-Out from Spain’s Austerity Plan
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National Network for Manufacturing Innovation?
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Ian Fletcher It’s no secret American manufacturing is in crisis, and that its problems form a significant component of our present economic mess. I’ve written before about how the Obama administration may (may!) be starting to get serious about the … [Read More...]