Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Sunday, August 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Diego Cevallos* – Tierramérica MEXICO CITY, Aug 31 (IPS) – The Canadian mining corporation Minefinders has explored a rural area of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua for 14 years. But as it gets [...]
DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: Ground Realities Stall Basket Fund Take Off
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Friday, August 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ephraim Nsingo HARARE, Aug 30 (IPS) – In 2006, there was shared concern among donors and women’s organisations over the fragmented approaches to gender and women’s empowerment programmes in Zimbabwe. ”This resulted in lack [...]
IRAQ: Kidnappings Now Become ‘Unofficial’
August 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Friday, August 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* BAQUBA, Aug 29 (IPS) – Residents of Baquba deny police claims that kidnappings are now a matter of the past. ”There are fewer people disappearing, but it continues,” a [...]
ISRAEL: Olmert Has a Last Go at a Legacy
August 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Friday, August 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Peter Hirschberg JERUSALEM, Aug 29 (IPS) – Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may have announced that he will resign as soon as his ruling Kadima party has chosen a new leader next [...]
POLITICS-US: McCain’s VP Pick Seen as High-Stakes Gamble
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Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Friday, August 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (IPS) – Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain stunned the political establishment Friday by choosing as his running-mate the little-known Alaska governor with virtually no national, let alone international, [...]
POLITICS-US: The Reinterpretation of Dreams
August 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Friday, August 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (IPS) – In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and gave a speech that went down as one of the [...]
LEBANON: ‘Switzerland of the Middle East’ Looks for Revival
August 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPSFriday, August 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mona Alami BEIRUT, Aug 29 (IPS) – Lebanon was long dubbed the ‘Switzerland of the Middle East’ for its advanced banking sector. It lost its status 23 years ago at the dawn of the 1975 [...]
US-PAKISTAN TOP SECRET MILITARY TALKS
August 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog Friday, August 29, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN The “New York Times” reported as follows on August 28,2008: “Top US and Pakistani army commanders had a highly unusual secret meeting on board an American aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean to discuss [...]
ICELAND: Filling Up on Hydrogen
August 28, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPSThursday, August 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK, Aug 28 (IPS) – Earlier this year, the Icelandic whale-watching boat Elding was fitted with a hydrogen-powered generator that fuels its lighting system, electric equipment and navigation machinery. It is the first [...]
POLITICS: S. Ossetia and Abkhazia Seek Voice in Security Council
August 28, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Thursday, August 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) – Russia wants the U.N. Security Council to allow the leadership of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to take part in ongoing international talks over the future of [...]
