Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Naimul Haq DHAKA, May 18, 2012 (IPS) – Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh, which is caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and [...]
KAZAKHSTAN: Astana Touts Caspian Port as NDN Hub
May 18, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Joshua Kucera* ASTANA, May 18, 2012 (IPS/EurasiaNet) – The United States and Kazakhstan are exploring the idea of expanding the amount of military cargo passing through Kazakhstan into and out of Afghanistan. The focal point of the discussions is the Caspian port city of Aktau. Kazakhstani authorities [...]
The Political Drones Get Louder
May 17, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, May 17, 2012 (IPS) – Growing numbers of activists are beginning to counter U.S. Drone attacks into Pakistani territory. The activists are confronting the U.S., but increasingly now the Pakistani government for allowing such attacks to continue. The Tehreek Insaf party led by former [...]
Journalism is Not ‘More Fun’ in the Philippines
May 10, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Dennis Engbarth MANILA, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – Reporters working in the Philippines, the world’s third most dangerous nation for journalists, are having difficulty identifying with the "It’s More Fun in the Philippines" tourism promotion campaign launched by the Liberal Party-led government of President Benigno Aquino III. [...]
China: Behind and Beyond Bo Xilai’s Sacking
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis http://www.indepthnews.net/ NEW DELHI (IDN) – Much has been written about Bo Xilai, the charismatic party secretary of the southwestern city of Chongqing who was sacked from the 25-member Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC). And, much more is likely to be written in the [...]
Chinese Dissident Chen Seeks U.S. Exile Deal
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents * DOHA, May 3, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he wants to leave for the U.S. rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the U.S. embassy in Beijing and defuse an [...]
U.S.-Afghan Pact Won’t End War – Or SOF Night Raids
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accompanying it emphasise transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war. But the only substantive agreement reached between [...]
Refugees Dream of Return, Come Home to Nightmare
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the bloody civil war to India [...]
Malaysia’s New Security Act Spares Politicians
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) – Malaysia’s new internal security law is as draconian as the colonial law it has replaced, but has the saving grace that it will not target political opponents of the government, say critics. After a 52-year history of serious [...]
Afghanistan: The Quagmire of U.S. Occupation
April 16, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Nicole Colson* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis CHICAGO (IDN) – The U.S. war and occupation of Afghanistan was supposed to bring stability and democracy. Instead, Afghanistan remains a country on the brink of disaster – one that has clearly been exacerbated by the U.S. presence. More than 10 years after [...]
