Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ellen Massey WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (IPS) – Early on Christmas Eve morning, the United States Senate will vote on the health care reform legislation that has been at the forefront of President Barack Obama’s domestic agenda since he was sworn into office just over 11 months ago. The vote [...]
THE INTERNAL SECURITY CZAR
December 24, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN Delivering the 22nd Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture at New Delhi on December 23,2009, P.Chidambaram, the Minister for Home Affairs, who inter alia is responsible for dealing with indigenous as well as externally-sponsored threats to internal security, outlined a series of measures for revamping our internal security architecture. These measures, [...]
Chinese Economy Monitor— Note No 9: REAL ESTATE TIGER & HIDDEN CREDITS ICEBERG
December 24, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites 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 feel the negative consequences [...]
VIEWPOINT: Egyptian Regime ‘The Most Repressive To Internet Users’
December 24, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY KAREEM EZZAT* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – “Egypt has become the most repressive country to internet users in the Arab world,” the Cairo-based Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has reported. The Egyptian regime “has stopped the policy of blocking websites five years ago and now directs its [...]
U.S. – led World Community Fails, Palestinians on Brink of Explosion
December 24, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites By Nicola Nasser* “In the absence of all hope, we cry out our cry of hope,” Palestinian Christian leaders, representing churches and church-related organizations, meeting in Bethlehem on December 11, concluded in their 13-page document titled “Kairos Palestine – 2009: A Moment of Truth,” enlisting Christians worldwide in proactive efforts to [...]
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE: What About Mahatma Gandhi?
December 24, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY J V RAVICHANDRAN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) About the epic novel War and Peace, it is said that Leo Tolstoy had adopted a unique style of recounting history — by drawing a thin line between fact and fiction “…in order to get closer to the truth”. About the 2009 [...]
ECONOMY: ‘Well Done, India – But There is More To Do’
December 24, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY PRAKASH JOSHI IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW DELHI (IDN) – India has received a basket full of kudos and is being promised more if it agrees to deepen and widen “cooperation” with the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), also known as the “rich man’s club”. A new [...]
NOT-SO-WONDERFUL COPENHAGEN: The View from Washington
December 24, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY ERNEST COREA IDN-InDepthNews Service WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – The concluding moments of COP15 (the fifteenth conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as the Copenhagen Conference) were overshadowed here by, of all things, the local weather. In this federal capital, where 2 [...]
POLITICS: China Revives Confucianism to Win the World Over
December 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Dec 22 (IPS) – As western nations and the values of liberal capitalism received a battering in the financial storm, China’s emergence as a pillar of economic stability and growth has fed a new craze in all things Chinese û from language to philosophy and culture. [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Declares War on Peace NGOs
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Dec 24 (IPS) – One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged. Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as [...]