Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Apr 29 (IPS) – ”The fifth time I tried to get to the United States I left Guatemala, crossed the border into Mexico, and on a bus I was assaulted by five police officers,” Guatemalan migrant José Donis said Wednesday. The story of Donis, who [...]
CHILE: Aftershocks Rock Inaugural Ceremony
March 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Mar 11 (IPS) – While Chile’s new rightwing President Sebastián Piñera, who announced that he would lead ”a government of reconstruction,” was being sworn in Thursday, the earthquake-ravaged country was shaken by major aftershocks. In fact his very first words as president referred to the catastrophe: [...]
MEXICO: Scientists Reinvent the Corn Tortilla
March 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Verónica Díaz Favela* – Tierramérica MEXICO CITY, Mar 7 (IPS) – The process of making corn tortillas – the filling, age-old traditional food throughout much of Mexico and Central America – pollutes huge volumes of water and consumes a great deal of energy. ”Some years ago, a group of [...]
RIGHTS: U.S. Criticised over Soaring Housing Costs
March 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Armin Rosen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 5 (IPS) – On Friday, the richest and most powerful country on earth was the subject of a damning report submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. The United States rarely finds itself brought before HRC, and issues of U.S. domestic policy [...]
RIGHTS-CHINA: For Dissident’s Wife, A Time of Waiting
March 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Gordon Ross BEIJING, Mar 5, 2010 (IPS) – Long before Liu Xiaobo, China’s most prominent political dissident and co- author of the Charter 08 call for political reform, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for "incitement to subvert state power," his wife, Liu Xia, had accepted his [...]
Obama Rewards Another Outsourcer
March 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites Originally Published on American Economic Alert Read the original article on American Economic Alert. President Obama’s decision to put Honeywell Chairman David M. Cote on the new bipartisan commission to reduce America’s debts and deficits is like putting Tiger Woods on a national commission to promote marital fidelity. And here’s why [...]
DR-CONGO: EU Urged to Ban ‘Conflict Minerals’
March 5, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ida Karlsson STOCKHOLM, Mar 4 (IPS) – After the United States senate’s move to stem the flow of money from mineral mines fuelling the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the watchdog group Global Witness (GW) is calling on Europe to follow suit. ”We are [...]
CHILE: A Tidal Wave of Solidarity
March 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Mar 2, 2010 (IPS) – Chile has been wrapped in a blanket of international solidarity, while offers of cooperation for the relief of victims and the reconstruction of the country shower down upon it, after the devastating Feb. 27 earthquake and tsunami. Social networking sites [...]
OBAMA ENDS HIS FIRST YEAR: Pushing Back Against a Snub
January 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY ERNEST COREA IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – Cool and collected “Nodrama Obama” received a dramatic snub from the voters of traditionally liberal Massachusetts at the approach of his second year in office. On Jan. 19, the eve of the first anniversary of his inauguration as the country’s [...]
POLITICS-US: Obama ”Appalled” by Iran Repression
June 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Khody Akhavi and Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Jun 23 (IPS) – Facing a growing chorus of Republican criticism to speak out more forcefully on Iran’s disputed election results, the U.S. president made his harshest statement yet Tuesday, condemning Iran’s leadership for its violent crackdown on protesters. Barack Obama told a [...]
