MIDEAST: Iran, Israel Spoiling for a Fight?
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Analysis by Mel Frykberg
RAMALLAH, Mar 10 (IPS) – Iran and Israel appear to be spoiling for a fight, going by recent belligerent statements emanating from several regional capitals.
Military movement on the ground is also lending credence to the idea that the mutual loathing and major ideological differences [...]
TIBET: TWO YEARS AFTER THE UPRISING OF 2008
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B.RAMAN
The Chinese are less tense and more relaxed as Tibet and Tibetans observe the second anniversary of the uprising of March 10,2008, which started in Lhasa and spread across the Tibetan areas. They have made many preventive arrests in Tibet to prevent anything untoward happening, but the high tension, which [...]
TERRORISTS TARGET LAHORE AGAIN
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO. 627
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B.RAMAN
At least 11 persons are reported to have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a rented building of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) of Pakistan in the residential Model Town area of Lahore on the morning of March 8,2010. The large quantity of [...]
POLITICS: Fiction of Marja as City Was U.S. Information War
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By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS) – For weeks, the U.S. public followed the biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a "city of 80,000 people" as well as the logistical hub of the Taliban in that part of Helmand. That idea [...]
MIDEAST: Palestinians Preparing for Statehood Anyhow
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Mar 8, 2010 (IPS) – Was it Yasser Arafat’s biggest political error? A decade ago, the deadline for the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel as envisaged in the 1993 Oslo peace accords thrust itself into the fruitless Palestinian-Israeli [...]
Gabor Steingart: The New World Disorder
See the original broadcast on Fora.tv
This lecture delivered by Gabor Steingart at the Global Policy Institute in 2008 remains is as relevant today as when originally presented.
The 7 Fallacies of the Globalisation Debate: Is it destroying the West? The Flat World. Outsourcing. Free Trade.Each of these phrases is a flashpoint in one of the most [...]
US-TURKEY: Armenian Genocide Vote Threatens Ties at Key Moment
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 5 (IPS) – Thursday’s vote by a Congressional committee condemning the deaths of up to 1.5 million Armenians during World War I as ”genocide” is almost certain to complicate U.S. ties with Turkey, a long-time strategic ally and increasingly influential player in the Middle East [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Does Latin America
Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA
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by COHA Research Associates Evgenij Haperskij and Kaycie Rupp
• Argentina squeezed in at the last minute • Why Guatemala? • Brazil phase is rough • Secretary of State Clinton and her Assistant Secretary, [...]
INDIA, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN & THE US
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B.RAMAN
Here are my answers to four questions e-mailed to me on March 3,2010, by a correspondent of the "Washington Post":
Question: Is the Indian government growing increasingly frustrated over the Obama administration’s policy of reconciliation with the so called good Taliban? And why or how will this impact India and [...]
DR-CONGO: EU Urged to Ban ‘Conflict Minerals’
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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 [...]
LATIN AMERICA-US: Clinton Attempts Damage Control
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Mario Osava *
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 4 (IPS) – The dialogue of the deaf on Iran’s nuclear programme that took place in the capital of Brazil highlights the hurdles faced by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her attempt at forging warmer ties during her tour [...]
MIDEAST: U.S. Policy in Gaza Remains Unchanged
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Charles Fromm and Ellen Massey
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (IPS) – One year ago Thursday, the last Israeli tanks were lumbering out of the Gaza Strip, ending the 22-day Gaza War and leaving in their wake a decimated landscape and population.
A year later, the humanitarian and security situation in [...]
U.S.: Clinton Criticises China over Internet Censorship
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Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (IPS) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech Thursday laying out the Barack Obama administration’s position on internet freedom, and publicly called on Chinese authorities to investigate the security breaches which preceded last week’s decision by Google to end its cooperation [...]
RIGHTS: Defenders Under Sustained Attack Worldwide
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By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Jan 20, 2010 (IPS) – Abusive governments around the world escalated their attacks against local human rights defenders and other independent monitors during 2009, according to the 2010 edition of Human Rights Watch’s annual ‘World Report’ released here Wednesday.
Their attacks have also become increasingly [...]
GATES’ VISIT TO DELHI: STRATEGIC COURSE-CORRECTION
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B.RAMAN
The contours of the strategic course correction in its relations with India, Pakistan and China, which the administration of President Barack Obama has undertaken since it assumed office a year ago, became evident once again during the just-concluded two-day visit of Dr.Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, to New Delhi [...]
U.S. Diplomacy Urged To Tandem With Faith
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“Diplomats trained in my era were taught not to invite trouble. And no subject seemed more inherently treacherous than religion.” – Madeleine Albright
By Ernest Corea
IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis
WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – The existence of a “God gap” which is said to diminish American [...]
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