Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN At the worst, there was collusion between Pakistan’s military-intelligence complex and Osama bin Laden which enabled him to live safely till May 1,2011, at Abbotabad, the cradle of the Pakistan Army. 2. At the best, the military-intelligence complex was aware of his presence in Abbotabad —possibly as a privileged [...]
‘Transformational Moment’ for Pakistan
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – Shabbir Hasan, 49, was woken up in the dead of the night to the sound of the "roar of a really low-flying helicopter." Hasan, a businessman, has lived in the hill station in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province all his [...]
Name Blame Game As Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock Persists
April 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Bernard Schell IDN-InDepth NewsReport CAIRO (IDN) – While the United Nations is urging Israel and the Palestinian Authority to end the deadlock in peace talks, representatives of the two conflict parties continue to cross swords blaming each other for the unending cycle of violence and ‘retaliation’. [...]
The Five BRICS Build an Alliance U.S. Need Not Fear
April 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Shastri Ramachandaran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW DELHI (IDN) – As the globalised world continues the search for an overarching new order, the emergence of any new alliance of sorts is bound to be resisted, and resented, by dominant powers in the existing order. BRICS — the grouping [...]
Answering Objections to a Tariff
April 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy It’s only fair to answer some of the objections to the idea of an import tariff that I and others, like possible presidential candidate Donald Trump, have recently proposed. One common objection is simply that our trading partners would just shrug it off by increasing subsidies to their exporters. They [...]
A Tariff Would, Too, Fix Our Trade Mess
April 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Ian Fletcher I and my employer, the Coalition for a Prosperous America, are unabashed protectionists. I have written previously about how, for example, a flat tariff on all U.S. imports may well be the key to solving the ongoing trade crisis that is depleting our national wealth and gutting our [...]
OP-ED: Solid Present, Bright Future for Latin America’s Film Industry
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Roberto Perez AMSTERDAM, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – Since the 1980s, despite chronic social crisis, Latin America has seen significant advances in economic and industrial development, which have given a boost to the region’s film industry. But the industry is still in the process of getting established, [...]
AN ANTI-CORRUPTION AYATOLLAH
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN One has reasons to be gratified and at the same time concerned over the direction the national anti-corruption movement led and galvanised by social activist Anna Hazare has been taking since it was launched three days ago from Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. 2. It has shaken up the [...]
OP-ED: Misunderstanding Bahrain’s Shia Protesters
April 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Genieve Abdo and Jasim Husain Ali* MANAMA, Apr 4, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Listening to the rhetoric coming out of Tehran, one might assume that Bahrain’s Shia opposition is relying on help from its co-religionists next door. But, in fact, the opposite is true: the Shia opposition [...]
Are American Workers Just Getting What They Deserve?
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Ian Fletcher If you don’t think American workers are being inexorably scr*wed by our governing establishment’s embrace of “free” trade, stop reading right here. If you do, I have a dark question for you, one that may have occurred to you in private already: Did we bring this whole mess [...]
