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Obama Resists Pressure for Red Line on Iran’s Nuclear Capability
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's refusal in a White House briefing earlier this month to announce a "red line" in regard to the Iran nuclear programme represented another in a series of rebuffs of … [Read More...]
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: China Flexes Hydropower Muscle
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) - After all the turbines in the Xiaowan hydropower station sputtered to life this week in China’s south-west Yunnan province, the Asian giant was able to lay claim to having the world’s largest … [Read More...]
VENEZUELA: Opposition Hopes to Make a Comeback
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - The campaign for Venezuela's Sept. 26 legislative elections is officially on, and the opposition, which boycotted the last vote five years ago, is back in the running, hoping to win enough seats to … [Read More...]
CORRUPTION-PERU: Gov’t Tries to Track Down Millions from Convicted Officials
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption. The aim is to recover 323 million dollars … [Read More...]
DR-CONGO: Mass Gang Rape Exposes Systematic Sexual Violence
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS, Aug 24, 2010 (IPS) - A U.N. human rights investigation mission will be launched in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Wednesday, U.N. officials announced Tuesday, after gruesome reports surfaced in … [Read More...]
BEIJING TIGHTENS UP CONTROL OVER MONASTERIES & MOSQUES
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Acting jointly, China's Ministry of Public Security and the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China have tightened up their control over the Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan areas of China … [Read More...]
Guarding Environment with a Paper-and-Pencil Project
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BANGKOK (IDN) - Asia-Pacific already has the largest number of motorized vehicles in the world and if the present trend continues, the region would in the coming years have more automobiles than Europe … [Read More...]
Asia Expects a New Decade in Sustainable Transport
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BANGKOK (IDN) - A new town of about 150,000 people is expected to sprout every day in the next 20 years in the Asia-Pacific region, increasing the urban population from 1.6 billion to 2.7 billion in … [Read More...]
RIGHTS-CHINA: Doubts Simmer Around New Labour Rules
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Michael Standaert FOSHAN, China, Aug 24, 2010 (IPS) - Faced with strikes in recent months, China’s southern Guangdong province is crafting revisions to labour regulations that would allow workers to negotiate pay increases and elect representatives … [Read More...]
MIDEAST: This Math Class May Figure Out Israel
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett AL ZAHARA, Central Gaza Strip, Aug 24, 2010 (IPS) - In a bright and spacious classroom, with plants overflowing in the courtyard outside, six students lean forward at their desks looking at the 10-digit addition they are asked to make. … [Read More...]
INDIA: Cotton Farmers Reap Hope from New Techniques
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna WARANGAL, India, Aug 24, 2010 (IPS) - Meruga Padma, 33, and her husband Veeramallu, 40, can still remember when cotton farmers here in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were in such dire straits that many were soon … [Read More...]
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Algeria Keen to Improve Battered Image
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By IDN Middle East Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – In an apparent move to improve its image in the West, Algeria has decided to allow several international non-governmental organizations, previously banned, to return to the county in September 2010. According to the Algerian daily ‘El Akhbar’, the organizations [...]
MEXICO: Capital Badly in Need of Urban Regeneration
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 19, 2010 (IPS) – Is urban regeneration feasible in Mexico’s capital city? This is a question asked by planning experts and by a large proportion of the city’s population. Some projects currently underway indicate that the answer could be yes. Ecological architectural [...]
DEVELOPMENT-AUSTRALIA: It’s Not Just About More, But Better, Aid
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Neena Bhandari SYDNEY, Aug 19, 2010 (IPS) – Australia’s foreign aid budget is likely to double by 2015, but civil society groups say this is far from enough if it is to keep to its "fair share" of commitments to poorer countries. In fact, they would like [...]
PERU: Woman Candidate Breathes New Life into Left
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 18 (IPS) – The campaign for the October municipal elections in Peru has brought new hope to the badly weakened left, in the form of Susana Villarán, who has shot up from the ”other candidates” category to third in the polls in the race [...]
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ROMANIA: Austerity Deals Mortal Blow to Health System
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claudia Ciobanu BUCHAREST, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - Five newborns died last week in a fire caused by an airconditioning fault at a Bucharest maternity. Insufficient, overworked staff and deficient maintenance -- results of inadequate funding of the … [Read More...]
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CULTURE-CHINA: Now Showing – Independent Films
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) - While Hollywood blockbusters and state-funded historical epics continue to dominate China’s box office, a vibrant independent film scene is quietly growing. Lacking distribution channels that lead to … [Read More...]
ENERGY: Is Fracking Even Worse Than Drilling?
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - With cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico barely underway, energy companies are already assuming a crouching stance in anticipation of a no-holds-barred attack by environmentalists on what the industry says … [Read More...]
MEXICO: Environmentalist Peasants Seek Justice
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) - Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return … [Read More...]
Groups Praise U.S. Rights Report as Good First Step
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) - In the first ever U.N.-mandated self-assessment of the United States' human rights record, the Barack Obama administration has reaffirmed its commitment to closing the detention centre at Guantanamo … [Read More...]
HAITI: Scraping by on Mud Cookies
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Wadner Pierre Credit:Wadner Pierre/IPS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) - At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti's capital city, the sun is already up. It's the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies … [Read More...]
SOUTH AFRICA: Public Health Strained by Nurses’ Strike
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Chris Stein JOHANNESBURG, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) - Striking health workers have continued their work stoppage despite accusations that it endangers patients' lives. They are part of a nationwide strike by public sector workers that has some observers … [Read More...]
New Report Cautions Companies Operating in Israel
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By IDN Middle East Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) - A new report has warned that companies with operations and suppliers in Israel, or offshore projects in disputed waters in the region, face the risk of "complicity in human rights … [Read More...]
Bridge to Nowhere – Road to Disaster
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BERLIN (IDN) - Practitioners of realpolitik would not claim they are poets, very much in the way that they do dismiss they are utopians. As former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, neither a poet nor … [Read More...]
INDIA: Activists Use Legal Weapons to Stop Thermal Power Plants
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pankaj Sekhsaria HYDERABAD, India, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) - Green activists have various ways of pushing their causes, from enlisting movie stars to launching protests, but India’s campaigners have also been quietly using legal weapons to try to get … [Read More...]
Environment Group Fumes at UN Report on Nigeria Oil Spills
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By IDN Environment Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) - Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) says that it is "outraged" by reports that a major United Nations investigation into Nigeria oil spills, funded by oil giant Shell, … [Read More...]
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Kazakhstan Has Good News Twice
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Prakash Joshi IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW DELHI (IDN) – President Nursultan Nazarbayev of the oil-rich Central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan has more than one reason to rejoice. Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a new opinion poll have good news for the life-time president. The International Monetary [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Uruguay Tries to Solve Its Forestry Puzzle
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Silvana Silveira* MONTEVIDEO, Aug 17, 2010 (Tierramérica) – "A Uruguayan consumes 40 kilos of paper per year, compared to 400 kilos consumed by someone in Finland. We produce wood pulp to feed foreign consumption," says sociologist María Selva Ortiz, representative of the environmental group Redes-Friends of the [...]
INDIA: Moving On to a ‘Backward’ Step
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Aug 18, 2010 (IPS) – Strident voices are rising against the Indian coalition government’s move to identify people by their caste background in the ongoing census. India has not included caste as a category in census enumerations since 1931. This form of [...]
MIDEAST: Uprooted Villagers Hold Fast During Ramadan
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Aug 18, 2010 (IPS) – On the eve of the start of Ramadan last week, Israeli police demolished the Bedouin village of al-Araqib in the Negev desert. It was the third time within two weeks that the village had been razed. [...]
BALKANS: Serbia Prepares a New Case Over Kosovo
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Aug 18, 2010 (IPS) – Serbia is preparing to go before the United Nations next month to renew negotiations over the future of Kosovo, its southern breakaway province that has declared independence and been recognised by a number of countries. Serbia is planning [...]
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The Arabs and the Race to Nuclear Hell
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Fareed Mahdy IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis ISTANBUL (IDN) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sounds rather optimistic — or has chosen to do so: “Recently, we have seen signs of progress on nuclear non-proliferation talks,” he said some two weeks ahead of announcing on August. 3 that ministerial-level discussions on [...]