Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Sep 30 (IPS) – Sound files containing recordings of spoken Kaweshkar – a nearly extinct indigenous language of southern Chile û have been put together thanks to the work of ethnolinguist Óscar Aguilera and anthropologist José Tonko, and donated to national and foreign institutions with the [...]
AFRICA-CORRUPTION: Anti Graft Now in the Hands of Civil Society
September 30, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Mohamed Fofanah FREETOWN, Sep 30 (IPS) – The fight against corruption in Sierra Leone has taken on a new face. Government and civil society are now working together to stamp out rampant fraud. The national anti-corruption agency, previously a toothless body with no power only recently bolstered by amendments [...]
Progressives and the Budget Deficit
September 29, 2009 By
Dean Baker Truthout, September 28, 2009 Read the article on the original website. The budget situation today looks hugely worse than it did two years ago. The reason for the deterioration is not that the country has suddenly embarked on a massive new round of social spending, undertaken another major military adventure, or even emptied [...]
Obama Stuck between Wars on Iraq, Afghanistan
September 26, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites By Nicola Nasser* It was extraordinarily questionable why U.S. President Barak Obama chose not to credit the War on Afghanistan with a separate paragraph in his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations on September 23, to “note” the war on Iraq with only a four – line paragraph, [...]
ARGENTINA: New Voice for Sexual Minorities
September 26, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Sep 26 (IPS) – A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake [...]
CHINA AS NUCLEAR PROLIFERATOR
September 26, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN It was known in 2004 that A.Q.Khan, Pakistan’s nuclear scientist, who is wanted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, for interrogation in connection with his nuclear proliferation to North Korea, Iran and Libya, had left a letter with his wife Henny of Dutch origin and their daughter giving [...]
GILGIT-BALTISTAN: THE AQ KHAN PROLIFERATION HIGHWAY—PART VII
September 26, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN Before the Agra summit of July 14-16,2001, between Atal Behari Vajpayee, the then Indian Prime Minister, and Pervez Musharraf, the latter had held a series of consultations with political and religious leaders of Pakistan, including Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), on his negotiating strategy at Agra. Significantly, he did not invite any [...]
IRAN: New Nuke Charges Raise Stakes in Upcoming Talks
September 25, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) – Charges by U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of France and Britain Friday that Iran is building a secret underground plant to enrich uranium appear certain to heighten tensions just days before critical talks between Tehran and its three accusers, as [...]
US-MIDEAST: A Week of Dimming Peace Prospects
September 25, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Helena Cobban* WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) – Eight months after Barack Obama launched his presidency by promising a speedy push for Palestinian-Israeli peace, that effort has stalled badly. And there are now growing fears that the top levels of Obama’s peace team are torn by internal disagreements [...]
KENYA: Slum Upgrade Is Land Grab – Nubians
September 25, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS George Kebaso NAIROBI, Sep 25 (IPS) – Her neighbours moved away one week ago, but Fatuma Abou sits against the tin door of her Kibera shack with a hijab over her head, chin on her knees and a defiant expression on her face when she looks up. She has [...]
