Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 31 (IPS) – Tiny juvenile salmon have been electronically tracked for the first time from their natal rivers in the Rocky Mountains 2,500 kilometres north to Alaska. ”We’re turning the lights [...]
RIGHTS: Bush’s ”Freedom Agenda” Stumbles in Syria
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ali Gharib and Zainab Mineeia WASHINGTON, Oct 31 (IPS) – With media and diplomatic attention focused on the international incident ignited by a U.S. cross-border raid from Iraq into Syrian territory last weekend, the Syrian government [...]
MEDIA-SOUTH SUDAN: Battle on Two Fronts
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Skye Wheeler JUBA, Nov 1 (IPS) – A recent presentation at parliament by the South’s Finance Minister gave a few cursory details of how the South’s army managed to spend 99.6 percent of its budget by [...]
RIGHTS-PERU: Three More Bodies Found at Accomarca
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ángel Páez LIMA, Oct 31 (IPS) – The bodies of three civilians, victims of a 1985 massacre perpetrated by Peruvian soldiers in the highlands village of Accomarca, were disinterred by their families and judicial authorities. They [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Campus Party to Bridge Digital Gap
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ana Artigas SAN SALVADOR, Oct 31 (IPS) – Seeking solutions for closing the digital and technological gap and sharing innovative experiences are the aims of the Ibero-America Campus Party, which is being held parallel to the [...]
RIGHTS-PARAGUAY: New ‘Archives of Terror’ Unearthed
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Natalia Ruiz Díaz ASUNCIÓN, Oct 31 (IPS) – The discovery Friday of new archives from the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner is expected to shed new light on the regime that ruled Paraguay from 1954 to 1989. [...]
HAITI: Activists Urge World Bank to Erase Crippling Debt
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Nergui Manalsuren UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (IPS) – On a recent visit to the hurricane-ravaged island of Haiti, World Bank President Robert Zoellick declared that 500 million dollars of Haiti’s 1.7-billion-dollar foreign debt had been cancelled, [...]
PARAGUAY: Unjustly Imprisoned Inmates Revive Debate on Prison Conditions
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Natalia Ruiz Díaz ASUNCIÓN, Oct 31 (IPS) – An 11-year delay in releasing a prisoner in Paraguay drew attention to the need for a computerised register of inmates, and revived debate on a prison system that [...]
BURMA: China’s Thirst for Oil Ignores Environment, Rights
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Oct 31 (IPS) – The largest island off Burma’s west coast is emerging as another frontier for China’s expanding plans to extract the rich oil and gas reserves of military-ruled Burma. Initial [...]
ECONOMY: Kenya Flush With Money From Expatriates
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Charles Wachira NAIROBI, Oct 31 (IPS) – As your plane taxis along the runway at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, a first-time visitor to Kenya will marvel at the world class status of the major entry-point [...]
