Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Patricia Grogg interviews Cuban political scientist ESTEBAN MORALES HAVANA, Aug 16 (IPS) – ”I still view corruption as an extraordinary danger” to the country, as its ”corrosive power” makes it a matter of ”national security,” said Esteban Morales, who was expelled from the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) after [...]
China: Outsmarting the West in African Markets
July 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Davison Makanga interviews DEBORAH BRAUTIGAM, professor International Development at American University CAPE TOWN, Jul 18 (IPS) – China’s interest in Africa is frequently portrayed simply as that of a rising economic power seeking natural resources. Deborah Brautigam argues that this portrayal misses the full complexity of business relations [...]
Q&A: Fewer Protests, More Political Pressure to Fight Climate Change
May 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Franz Chávez interviews environmentalist KELLY BLYNN of the 350.org movement LA PAZ, May 16 (IPS) – Moving away from public protests and towards exerting political pressure on leaders in industrialised countries is the strategy chosen by the environmental movement 350.org to fight global warming, said its co-founder Kelly [...]
Q&A: Exposing the ”Masters of the Word” in Latin America
May 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniela Estrada interviews Argentine media researcher MARTÍN BECERRA SANTIAGO, May 7 (IPS) – If control of the media was not so heavily concentrated in Latin America, the situation of inequality in the region would be more actively challenged, says Martín Becerra, an Argentine media specialist who presented his latest [...]
Q&A: World’s Fastest Cat on Its Ninth Life
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jennie Lorentsson interviews cheetah conservationist LAURIE MARKER UNITED NATIONS, May 6 (IPS) – Over the last century, 90 percent of the cheetah population in the world has been killed, and it is now the most endangered animal in Africa. During the 1980s, the cheetah population of Namibia was cut [...]
Q&A: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime Has Triple Standards
April 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thalif Deen interviews JOHN BURROUGHS of the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) – The abolition of nuclear weapons – and a halt to the spread of the deadly armaments – will be a major talking point at the month-long Review Conference on the Nuclear [...]
BEIJING WANTS REINCARNATION OF A DALAI LAMA IN CHINESE COLOURS
April 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN (Text of an E-mail interview given by me to a journalist writing for " Avvenire" , a Catholic journal of Italy ) Question:Since the end of the Olympic Games silence has fallen about the situation in Tibet. What is really happening today? Answer:The violation of the human rights of the [...]
Q&A: Treatment of New York Detainee Is ”Legalised Torture”
April 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS William Fisher interviews DR. JEANNE THEOHARIS NEW YORK, Apr 15 (IPS) – For the past almost three years, a U.S. citizen, Syed Fahad Hashmi, has been held in isolation in a federal detention centre in New York City. He is suspected of conspiring to provide ”material support” to al [...]
Q&A: Why Poorest African Countries Should Not Sign the EPAs
April 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Isolda Agazzi interviews Dr EL HADJI DIOUF, expert on the economic partnership agreements (Part 2) GENEVA, Apr 9 (IPS) – It is a ”million dollar question” why African least developed countries (LDCs) would enter into economic partnership agreements (EPAs) with the EU as what remains of especially their agricultural [...]
Q&A: Eco-Friendly Farming Practices to Fight Hunger in Bolivia
April 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Franz Chávez interviews Bolivian expert in natural resource management WILFREDO QUIROZ LA PAZ, Apr 3 (IPS) – The gradual loss of traditional farming practices that preserve the land has pushed into extreme poverty small farmers in Bolivia who 20 years ago were producing surplus produce to sell at market [...]
