Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Jun 30, 2010 (IPS) – Talks aimed at reaching an intelligence-sharing agreement between the European Union and Israel have skirted around the location of Israel’s national police headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem. In 2005, the EU decided that Europol, its law enforcement office, should [...]
Afghan Security Needs Focus After Trash-Talking General Goes
June 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – General Stanley McChrystal’s removal from his position of pre-eminent military leadership in Afghanistan has deflected attention from the continuing need for a sober, non-rancorous national debate on the war in Afghanistan. That, too, will come, however, for who can [...]
HU PROPOSES, PLA DISPOSES
June 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN As President Hu Jintao took a series of steps to repair relations with the US which have come under a strain following the decision of the Barack Obama Administration earlier this year to sell a new arms package to Taiwan and the meeting of His Holiness the Dalai Lama [...]
PARAGUAY: Clean Water Out of Reach for Native Peoples
June 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Natalia Ruiz Díaz ASUNCION, Jun 29 (IPS) – Of the many things that are not within the reach of everyone in Paraguay, safe drinking water is the one the indigenous population longs for most. ”The water we get from the reservoir is not fit to drink, but we [...]
SMOKING OUT BIN LADEN FROM HIS “DEEP HIDING”
June 29, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 660 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN In an interview to ABC TV channel’s “This Week” Programme on June 27,2010, Mr.Leon Panetta, Director of the USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), is reported to have stated as follows: “ Osama bin Laden remains in very deep hiding but consistent pressure will flush [...]
US-AFGHANISTAN: What Now?
June 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jun 28, 2010 (IPS) – Nearly a week after the abrupt demise of Washington’s top commander in Afghanistan, U.S. strategy for reversing the flood of bad news that has been recently pouring out of that strife-torn country remains as unclear as ever. Led [...]
Washington Elite Still Don’t Get Latin America – Will They Ever?
June 27, 2010 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Mark Weisbrot The Guardian Unlimited, June 26, 2010 See article on original the Guardian website In the film “Guantanamera,” the last by renowned Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the Yoruba creation myth is presented as a metaphor for the difficulties of bringing about change. In this myth, humans [...]
INDIA-PAKISTAN: A WELL-CHOREOGRAPHED BEGINNING
June 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The visit of Mrs.Nirupama Rao, India’s Foreign Secretary, to Islamabad on June 24,2010, for preparatory talks with Mr.Salman Bashir, Pakistani Foreign Secretary, could not have gone better than it did. Those, who had seen the bad vibrations which marred the atmosphere during Mr.Bashir’s visit to New Delhi in February [...]
‘Investigate Torture Allegations Accurately’
June 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Thomas Hammarberg* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint STRASBOURG (IDN) – The new government in the United Kingdom has taken an important step to prevent torture: it has authorised a judge-led inquiry into allegations that British officials were complicit in the mistreatment of suspects held by the United States, Pakistan and [...]
FRESH UNREST IN J & K: NEED FOR BALANCED RESPONSE
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN "It should be a matter of concern—but not yet of alarm—- that the fedayeen attack by a group of two terrorists—- apparently from Pakistan — in the Lal Chowk of Srinagar on January 6, 2010, has come at a time when emotions are once again being whipped up in [...]