Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Najum Mushtaq NAIROBI, Jan 31 (IPS) – A rare sense of optimism rose in Mogadishu in the early hours of Jan. 31 as people learnt that the leader of a moderate faction of the Union of Islamic Courts, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, had been elected as head the Transitional [...]
SOMALIA: Counting the Cost After Ethiopia Withdraws
January 31, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU, Jan 31 (IPS) – The suicide car bomb that struck Mogadishu Jan. 24, killing at least twenty people and injuring nearly fifty others is an explosive comment on the failure of the Ethiopian military deployment to Somalia two years ago to oust Islamist [...]
LTTE’S BITTER ATTACK ON GOVT OF INDIA & THE CONGRESS PARTY
January 30, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites January 30, 2009 B.RAMAN In the wake of the visit of our Foreign Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, to Colombo for talks with the Sri Lankan President, Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Tamilnet, the web site in the English language associated with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), has disseminated on January 30,2009, [...]
New Content and Site Organization
January 26, 2009 By
In the near future readers can expect more articles by the editors and regular guest contributors. Updated news articles and analysis from the InterPress Service, IPS will be presented several times a week if not every day. We continue to work to improve the range and quality of materials on global political and economic issues [...]
CHINESE ECONOMY MONITOR—NOTE NO.5
January 21, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites January 21, 2009 By B.Raman (What will be the impact of the global financial and economic melt-down on the Chinese economy? This question should be of interest to the other countries of the South and the South-East Asian region. If the Chinese economy is badly affected, they too are likely to [...]
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Civil Society Mounts Peace Offensive
January 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Rita Manchanda NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (IPS) – A visit to India by a delegation of civil society activists from Pakistan as part of a ‘peace offensive’ is expected to help keep the two South Asian neighbours from going to war over the Nov. 26-29 terror attacks on Mumbai [...]
RIGHTS-INDIA: Gujarat’s Modi as Premier?
January 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Paranjoy Guha Thakurta NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (IPS) – Two of India’s wealthiest and most influential businessmen have raised a political storm by jarring public endorsements of controversial leader Narendra Modi as the world’s largest democracy’s next prime minister. Modi, chief minister of industrialised, western Gujarat state belongs to [...]
THAILAND: Burmese Refugees Set Adrift, Hundreds Feared Dead
January 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Larry Jagan BANGKOK, Jan 20 (IPS) – Hundreds of Rohingya (Burmese Muslim) refugees are feared dead after being pushed back into the sea by Thai authorities, according to human rights activists based in Thailand. Up to 200 people are missing, while more than 300 others are believed to have [...]
CHINA/US: Obama Era May See More Trade Friction
January 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Jan 20 (IPS) – China is entering the Obama era on a defensive note. Angered by U.S. charges that its glut of savings was the root cause for the global credit bubble, Beijing has chided Washington for being ungrateful and hinted at reviewing its long-standing policy [...]
POLITICS: Not Just the U.S. Hopeful About Obama
January 19, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (IPS) – Perhaps never in human history have the hopes of so many people for positive change in international relations rested on one person as they do on Barack Obama, who is to be inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States Tuesday [...]
