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Brazil Drives Energy Integration in South America
May 18, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava SÃO PAULO, May 18, 2012 (IPS) – Energy integration in South America will be a reality "in the medium to long term," driven by hydropower and drawing on Brazil’s experience, predicts Altino Ventura Filho, secretary of planning in this country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. [...]
US Asked to Abandon Cold War Nuke Strategy
May 17, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jamshed Baruah IDN-InDepthNews Report http://www.indepthnews.net/ BERLIN (IDN) – In run-up to the NATO Summit in Chicago on May 20, a new report is calling for abandoning the Cold War rationale and ushering in a systemic change in U. S. nuclear force structure, strategy and posture in order [...]
U.S.: Tea Party Loses in Fight with Big Business
May 17, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 (IPS) – For leaders of the right-wing populist "Tea Party" who have bragged about their growing influence – if not domination – of the Republican Party, the past week’s battle over the future of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) has been [...]
COLOMBIA-U.S.: Trade Deal "Throws Country into Jaws of Multinationals," Critics Say
May 16, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Helda Martínez* BOGOTÁ, May 16, 2012 (IPS) – The entry into force of Colombia’s free trade agreement with the United States was met by student protests and opposition from a segment of the business community, small farmers, and trade unionists. The trade deal, signed in 2006 after [...]
An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth
May 10, 2012 By
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 [...]
Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil’s Favelas
May 3, 2012 By
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 [...]
Top 5 Figures Influencing Renewable Energy in the U.S.
May 3, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Jen Alic of Oilprice.com As Oilprice.com embarks on its Top 5 series, we thought it expedient to begin with our take on the key figures shaping and influencing U.S. renewable energy efforts, not least because the issue of energy security is being prioritized in campaigning ahead of [...]
U.S.-Mexico Border Build-Up Found Excessive
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) – While Republican politicians and other "border hawks" call for ever-tougher measures to secure the U.S.-Mexican border against drug trafficking and illegal immigration, a one-year bi-national study released here Thursday suggests that current efforts may be excessive. The study, a [...]
