Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Ron Howell* NEW YORK, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Throughout the New York region, but especially in Brooklyn and Queens, there is measured relief that the U.S. is finally addressing a longstanding issue: that of thousands of Haitians who have been living and – in so many cases [...]
OBAMA ENDS HIS FIRST YEAR: Pushing Back Against a Snub
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY ERNEST COREA IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – Cool and collected “Nodrama Obama” received a dramatic snub from the voters of traditionally liberal Massachusetts at the approach of his second year in office. On Jan. 19, the eve of the first anniversary of his inauguration as the country’s [...]
MEDIA: Slovakia Tightens the Gag
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Pavol Stracansky BRATISLAVA, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Fears are growing for media freedom in Slovakia amid warnings that the country’s public television station has become a propaganda tool for the government ahead of elections this year. Media monitoring groups say that public broadcaster STV has abandoned unbiased [...]
RIGHTS: Whistleblower Challenges Guantanamo ”Suicides”
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS William Fisher NEW YORK, Jan 22 (IPS) – Is the administration of President Barack Obama concealing evidence suggesting that three suicides at Guantanamo Bay were not suicides at all? That is a question human rights groups, legal experts and national security specialists are pondering on the heels of an [...]
MIDEAST: U.S. Policy in Gaza Remains Unchanged
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Charles Fromm and Ellen Massey WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (IPS) – One year ago Thursday, the last Israeli tanks were lumbering out of the Gaza Strip, ending the 22-day Gaza War and leaving in their wake a decimated landscape and population. A year later, the humanitarian and security situation in [...]
U.S.: Clinton Criticises China over Internet Censorship
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Eli Clifton WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (IPS) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech Thursday laying out the Barack Obama administration’s position on internet freedom, and publicly called on Chinese authorities to investigate the security breaches which preceded last week’s decision by Google to end its cooperation [...]
COSTA RICA: Last-Ditch Leftwing Alliance to ‘Save’ the Country
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Daniel Zueras SAN JOSÉ, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Political forces on the left in Costa Rica have formed a partial last-minute alliance to support Ottón Solís, the presidential candidate for the centre-left Citizens’ Action Party (PAC), in a bid to counter the conservative lead that the polls [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Feeds More Hunger
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Paul Virgo ROME, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was way off the mark when he wrote the famous line "what does not destroy me, makes me stronger" – at least when it comes to hunger. Every six seconds a child is killed by hunger [...]
RIGHTS-INDIA: Shelter for the Homeless amid Big Chill
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Happiness for Alok and Saddam is the bare canvas tent set up in the middle of a grassy traffic island close to Delhi Gate, the entrance to the old quarter of India’s capital. "For warmth we have each other," [...]
ZIMBABWE: Water Scarcity No Obstacle To Bulawayo Farmers
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Busani Bafana BULAWAYO, Jan 22 (IPS) – A project in Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo, is creatively using ”marginal water” to ease water scarcity while helping residents provide food and earn a living. Water scarcity has led urban farmers to turn to treated waste water to grow food within the [...]
