Global Geopolitics Net Sites By MALLADI RAMA RAO Summits, big or small, serve a purpose; they provide an opportunity for heads of state and governments to hold one-on-one meetings on the sidelines. The BIMSTEC summit held in Delhi on Nov 13 was no exception. And true to this tradition, President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Prime Minister [...]
ZIMBABWE: Negotiations Must Move ”Outside the Box”
December 18, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (IPS) – With talks between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his opposition yielding few resolutions to the political deadlock, some observers are calling for outside-the-box thinking beyond the parametres laid out in negotiations. A power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe is unlikely and bound to fail, [...]
ECONOMY-BALKANS – Just When Hope Was At Hand
December 18, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Dec 18 (IPS) – The Balkans region, crippled by the wars of the 1990s and then pushed through painful transition to a market economy, has been hit hard by the global economic crisis just when everyone believed the time had come for promising new development. [...]
CORRUPTION: Little Movement Against Tax Havens
December 18, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Julio Godoy PARIS, Dec 17 (IPS) – As many feared, little action has resulted from the latest attempt to move against tax havens. The irony of the last event was perhaps telling of the inaction to follow. About 200 experts in international finance met last month in Monte Carlo [...]
India gears to setup a National Investigation Agency (NIA) to deal with terror
December 17, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites By M Rama Rao New Delhi, 16 December: A fortnight after Mumbai came under terrorist siege for 60-long hours, Indian government has decided to set up a specialised agency to deal with terrorism and is arming itself with tough anti-terror laws. On Tuesday, the Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram tabled in Parliament [...]
ECONOMY-US: Where Have the Bailout Billions Gone?
December 16, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Adrianne Appel BOSTON, Dec 17 (IPS) – A new U.S. investigative panel is demanding answers from the U.S. Treasury about how the agency has spent money from the 700-billion-dollar bailout fund. The Congressional Oversight Panel, a four-person board authorised by Congress and led by consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren of [...]
CHINA/US: Rivals, Partners in Asia
December 16, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by John Feffer WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (IPS) – With the Six Party Talks to denuclearise North Korea once again on the ropes and the world reeling from a deepening financial crisis, the United States is looking to China for help. The Pentagon still views China as a rising [...]
SOUTH AMERICA: Mercosur Shares Social Concerns, Diverges on Economy
December 16, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mario Osava COSTA DO SAUIPE, Brazil, Dec 16 (IPS) – Concern over the social impact of the global economic crisis dominated the discussions at the Mercosur Summit on Tuesday, but economic proposals by some presidents underscored their ideological differences. Left-wing Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa was in the forefront as [...]
CARIBBEAN: Feeling the Effects of Global Recession
December 16, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Peter Richards PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec 16 (IPS) – Maria Harvey of St. Lucia was looking forward to a bonus this Christmas, but when her employers presented her with an envelope on Monday, it left her shattered. Harvey joined thousands of workers in the Caribbean tourism industry who [...]
POLITICS: U.N. Hopes to Jumpstart Quartet Talks
December 16, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Dec 16 (IPS) – The U.N. Security Council is calling for intense international efforts to conclude diplomatic negotiations aimed at creating a peace treaty between Israel and Palestine. On Tuesday, the 15-member Council passed a unanimous resolution declaring its support for the negotiations initiated in [...]
