Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Gonzalo Ortiz interviews JUAN PABLO SÁENZ, prosecuting attorney in Chevron case * QUITO, Feb 23, 2011 (Tierramérica) – On Feb. 14, a provincial Ecuadorean court issued the harshest environmental verdict in history against a major oil company, the U.S.-based Chevron. But is there any chance it will be [...]
Q&A: Tunis and Cairo Reveal a New Popular Militancy
February 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Andrea Lunt interviews activist and intellectual BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS Boaventura de Sousa Santos / Credit:Courtesy of Boaventura de Sousa Santos NEW YORK, Feb 14, 2011 (IPS) – More than 200 years ago, one of the United States’ founding presidents, Thomas Jefferson, famously remarked: "Every generation needs a [...]
SOUTH AFRICA: Rising Leader With Her Feet on the Ground
February 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Fatima Asmal interviews ZANELE MAGWAZA-MSIBI, leader of South Africa’s National Freedom Party DURBAN, Feb 10, 2011 (IPS) – Zanele Magwaza-Msibi is a woman with a mission: to serve the people of South Africa. She is poised to become leader of South Africa’s newest political party, the National Freedom [...]
Q&A: The People Need to Take Leadership
February 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Cléo Fatoorehchi interviews SYLVIA BORREN, co-chair of GCAP NEW YORK, Feb 10, 2011 (IPS) – While the international community is now talking of a triple global crisis – food, climate and economic – a weeklong session of the World Social Forum (WSF) is coming to a close in [...]
Q&A: What the U.S. Undid for Women in Iraq
October 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Sanjay Suri interviews THORAYA AHMED OBAID, executive director of UNFPA, the LONDON, Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) – The U.S.-led invasion and then occupation of Iraq brought a sharp setback to the rights of women in that country, UNFPA head Thoraya Obaid tells IPS in an interview. The view [...]
Hope for Expanded Protection Against TB
October 8, 2010 By
Aimable Twahirwa interviews ANTHONY HAWKRIDGE, tuberculosis researcher KIGALI, Oct 8, 2010 (IPS) – Despite the availability of a vaccine, 1.3 million people worldwide died from tuberculosis (TB) in 2008, according to the World Health Organisation. Most of them lived in Africa and Southeast Asia. Administered to infants throughout the developing world and in certain countries [...]
Q&A: The President "Is Going to Pay for What He’s Done"
October 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Diana Cariboni interviews activist JORGE ROJAS, a witness to the police uprising in Ecuador* MONTEVIDEO, Sep 30, 2010 (IPS) – "We’re not letting him (President Rafael Correa) leave, and he’s going to pay for what he’s done to the police." That phrase from an Ecuadorian police official to [...]
Q&A: Georgian Lifers Spared Death, Stuck in their Cells
September 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Claudia Ciobanu interviews TSIRA CHANTURIA of Penal Reform International BUCHAREST, Sep 29, 2010 (IPS) – Georgia’s punitive criminal justice system has resulted in one of the highest imprisonment rates worldwide. Overcrowding of jails now hampers an ambitious government plan to reform the penitentiary system. This month, the number [...]
Q&A: "Political Conversations Are Now on Steroids"
September 20, 2010 By
Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS Anna Shen interviews ANDREW RASIEJ, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum NEW YORK, Sep 20, 2010 (IPS) – Andrew Rasiej hurriedly gets off the phone, explaining that he was talking to Arianna Huffington, founder of uber-website The Huffington Post. She just published a new book, and [...]
Q&A: ‘Corruption is an Extraordinary Danger’
August 17, 2010 By
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 [...]
