Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Adrianne Appel BOSTON, Oct 31 (IPS) – U.S. consumers are in no mood to spend, and that calls for action, Congress and the George W. Bush administration said this week. Economic indicators released Thursday show that [...]
ECONOMY: Global Crisis Should Spell End of Laissez-Faire Doctrine
October 31, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN, Oct 31 (IPS) – The real question to ask about the global financial crisis is whether ‘‘it will go deep enough for the big economies to realise that the market should be [...]
FINANCE: Revolt Against ”Elite Clubs” Grows at U.N.
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Wolfgang Kerler UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (IPS) – U.N. member states and economists challenged the neo-liberal policies of market deregulation that have long been promoted by powerful global financial institutions like the World Bank and International [...]
DISARMAMENT: ”The Carnage Must Stop”
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (IPS) – An international coalition of human rights and humanitarian aid organisations is calling for the world community to create a treaty that would prohibit the illicit business in guns [...]
DRC: Aid Agencies Fear Humanitarian Disaster in North Kivu
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ulrich Knapp UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (IPS) – The situation in the strategic city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was relatively calm Thursday after a night of fierce shooting and widespread looting, [...]
POLITICS-THAILAND: Anti-Coup Sentiment Gaining Popularity
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites – Global Intel Net / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Oct 31 (IPS) – With military takeovers enjoying a certain popularity, Thailand could easily be called ‘’the land of coups”. But anti-coup sentiments, now building up, may [...]
Q&A: ”We Must Rethink the International Economic System”
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Bankole Thompson interviews ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU DETROIT, Michigan, Oct 30 (IPS) – Archbishop Desmond Tutu is South Africa’s first black Anglican bishop. An elder statesman whose moral voice and advocacy against the racist apartheid regime in [...]
POLITICS-SOMALIA: Harsh Words For Transitional Government
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Joyce Mulama NAIROBI, Oct 30 (IPS) – Horn of Africa leaders attending a regional summit have lashed out at Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) for failing to restore peace and order in the war-torn country. ”Failed [...]
RIGHTS-SUDAN: New Trials Could Condemn more to Death
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Blake Evans-Pritchard KHARTOUM, Oct 30 (IPS) – The number of people sentenced to death for their alleged role in the rebel attacks on Khartoum last May could rise if the government carries through its plans to [...]
US-IRAQ: Detainees May Go From Frying Pan to Fire
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ali Gharib and Zainab Mineeia WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (IPS) – An estimated 17,000 Iraqis detained in their own country by occupying U.S. forces may soon face transfer into an Iraqi government detention system where reports of [...]
