Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – In the first ever U.N.-mandated self-assessment of the United States’ human rights record, the Barack Obama administration has reaffirmed its commitment to closing the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay and to fixing the country’s "broken immigration system". But [...]
Obama Resists Pressure for Red Line on Iran’s Nuclear Capability
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – President Barack Obama’s refusal in a White House briefing earlier this month to announce a "red line" in regard to the Iran nuclear programme represented another in a series of rebuffs of pressure from Defence Secretary Robert Gates for [...]
US: Immigration System a Broken Behemoth, Groups Say
August 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Aug 11, 2010 (IPS) – One year after the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama announced that it intended to overhaul the country’s heavily criticised immigration detention practices and create a "truly civil detention system", a new academic paper bolsters claims by human rights [...]
ARTS: Walking in the Shoes of a Muslim in New York
August 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Hannah Rubenstein NEW YORK, Aug 7, 2010 (IPS) – A woman waits on a subway platform, head bowed, pretending to ignore the insults. Perched on bar stools, a group of friends listen to racist jokes, suppressing giggles. Kneeling, a young war veteran tells his fiancée of his [...]
Double-Dip Recessions and the Strange Tale of Final Demand
August 4, 2010 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on The Guardian Unlimited, August 2, 2010 Read the article in its original form on the Guardian website By Dean Baker The 2.4 percent GDP growth figure reported for the second quarter caused many economists to once again be surprised about the state of the economy. [...]
Obama Drops 2009 Pledge to Withdraw Combat Troops from Iraq
August 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Aug 3, 2010 (IPS) – Seventeen months after President Barack Obama pledged to withdraw all combat brigades from Iraq by Sep. 1, 2010, he quietly abandoned that pledge Monday, admitting implicitly that such combat brigades would remain until the end of 2011. Obama declared [...]
WIKILEAKS: THE IMPLICATIONS
July 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The leakage of nearly 90,000 documents relating to the Afghan war for the period between January 2004 and December 2009 by Wikileaks, a US web site which disseminates secret information of public interest received from whistleblowers after verifying the authenticity of the secret information, could damage the chances of [...]
US FINANCE BILL LACKS POWER TO CURB WALL ST.
July 18, 2010 By
theREALnews Network July 18, 2010 Gerald Epstein: It’s like a world cup game where one team only has a goalie with his hands tied More at The Real News
PRODUCTIVITY IS UP SO WHY CUT SOCIAL PROGRAMS?
July 16, 2010 By
theREALnews Network July 16, 2010 Robert Pollin: Imposing ‘austerity’ at this time could be calamitous More at The Real News
America divided: the politics of inequality
July 16, 2010 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Read the original article on OpenDemocracy.net Godfrey Hodgson, 16 July 2010 The entrenchment of inequality in the United States damages the economy, degrades politics and corrodes the American dream. A new reality is also an epic challenge of leadership, says Godfrey Hodgson. The economic crisis in the United [...]
