Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente * BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2012 (Tierramérica) – The controversial concept of degrowth receives little press coverage in a region like Latin America. But the idea of a way of life that is not aimed exclusively at GDP growth does have its proponents in Argentina. [...]
Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico
May 10, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – Although Mexico has signed several multilateral anti-corruption agreements, so far these instruments have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement, according to experts. "We have the necessary legal instruments, but they are rarely [...]
China: Behind and Beyond Bo Xilai’s Sacking
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis http://www.indepthnews.net/ NEW DELHI (IDN) – Much has been written about Bo Xilai, the charismatic party secretary of the southwestern city of Chongqing who was sacked from the 25-member Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC). And, much more is likely to be written in the [...]
Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil’s Favelas
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet NOVA IGUAÇU, Brazil, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – Women in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of this city 40 km north of Rio de Janeiro no longer have to spend money on vegetables, because they have learned to grow their own, as organic urban gardening [...]
Chinese Dissident Chen Seeks U.S. Exile Deal
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents * DOHA, May 3, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he wants to leave for the U.S. rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the U.S. embassy in Beijing and defuse an [...]
U.S.-Afghan Pact Won’t End War – Or SOF Night Raids
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accompanying it emphasise transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war. But the only substantive agreement reached between [...]
Refugees Dream of Return, Come Home to Nightmare
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the bloody civil war to India [...]
Lebanese Groups Arming Syrian Unrest
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zak Brophy BEIRUT, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – The Lebanese army seized a ship last weekend carrying three containers filled with weapons reportedly intended for Syria’s rebel fighters. Although Lebanon has remained relatively stable throughout the sustained violence next door in Syria, this discovery is the most [...]
