Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Recent events in the port city of Dalian in north-east China where public protests forced the local Government to accept a demand for closing down a chemical plant following an accident and for re-locating it elsewhere show a new style of political management. This new style is marked by [...]
U.S. Audit Faults Fed For $16 Trillion Secret Loans
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jutta Wolf IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – While the world held its breath in the long drawn political tug-of-war between the White House and Republican Party leaders until beginning of August 2011, Senator Bernie Sanders posted on his website startling findings of a top-to-bottom audit of the [...]
Michael Hudson – Europe’s Financial Class War Against Labor, Industry and Government
May 25, 2011 By
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LATIN AMERICA: Boosting Accountability for Mining and Oil Industries
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares* GUATEMALA CITY, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – Guatemala has been accepted as a candidate country by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which aims to strengthen governance by improving transparency and accountability in the sector, and to reduce tensions between mining and oil companies and [...]
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 [...]
CORRUPTION-INDIA: Gandhian Movement Pushes Ombudsman Law
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Apr 7, 2011 (IPS) – Seeing the bespectacled old man fasting in protest against corruption in the bustling heart of the Indian capital, many are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who used ‘moral power’ to lead India to independence from British colonial [...]
CORRUPTION: Post-Mubarak Egypt Probes Public Land Contracts
March 31, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emad Mekay CAIRO, Mar 30, 2011 (IPS) – Egyptian authorities have opened dozens of criminal investigations into hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public land contracts that were awarded illegally to real estate developers associated with former President Hosni Mubarak without proper procedures at below market [...]
WIKILEAKS: Australians Call For Legislation to Protect Whistleblowers
March 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Neena Bhandari SYDNEY, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – Some Australians are convinced their government is sharing intelligence information with foreign powers about citizens implicated by documents released by Wikileaks. The government’s refusal to acknowledge any hand in the case against Wikileaks’ Australian founder Julian Assange has earned [...]
VENEZUELA: Long on Weapons, Short on Accountability
March 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – Venezuela has been a major arms purchaser from Russia, China and other suppliers in the last five years, but has failed to acquire the necessary competence to deal with hypothetical conflicts, says a non-governmental organisation specialised in security and [...]
Despite Reforms, Whistleblowers at Development Banks Face Retaliation
March 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Charles Davis WASHINGTON, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – Multilateral lending institutions – like the governments they serve – are ostensibly committed to the values of transparency and accountability. But more often than not, insiders who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse at institutions like the [...]
