Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Alexander Cockburn* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint PETROLIA, USA (IDN) – After three and a half months of bombing and arms supply to various rebel factions, NATO’s failure in its efforts to promote "regime change" in Libya is now glaring. Obviously NATO’s commanders are still hoping that a lucky [...]
UN: Somalia Is ‘Worst Humanitarian Disaster’
July 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, Jul 11, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – The head of the United Nations refugee agency has described the situation in drought-hit Somalia as the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world, after meeting with those affected at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. The camp, located [...]
Bosnians Mark Srebrenica Anniversary
July 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, Jul 11, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Tens of thousands of Bosnia Muslims gathered on Monday to bury the remains of 613 people at Srebrenica to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the 1995 killings of thousands of Muslims in and around the town. The massacre [...]
SUDAN: Close to War As the South Prepares to Celebrate Independence
July 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Reem Abbas KHARTOUM, Jul 8, 2011 (IPS) – Sudan is closest to civil war since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. Mariam Al Sadig, a leading figure in the Umma Party, one of Sudan’s main opposition parties, said that the conflict in Southern [...]
225,000 Killed – But Democracy Eludes Afghanistan and Iraq
July 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By S. Chandler IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – At least 225,000 civilians and men and women in uniform have been killed in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which also involved Pakistan, and will cost the U.S. up to $4 trillion, albeit without any significant gains for [...]
Balkanization and Subjugation of Somalia
July 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Abukar Arman Let me begin by saying that had it not been for Somalis transgressing against other Somalis, the state would neither have been in its current pitifully fragmented state, nor would it have become the poster child for the failed states. Since its independence 51 years ago, Somalia [...]
INTROSPECTION IN PAKISTAN: WILL IT ENDURE?
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The anger and humiliation caused in Pakistan by the unilateral raid by US naval commandos on the residence of Osama bin Laden at Abbottabad on May 2,2011, and by the inability of the Pakistani Army and Air Force to prevent the raid have had two significant effects. 2.The first [...]
COLOMBIA: Kidnapped in No Man’s Land
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – "Today we are launching the new campaign for demobilisation in Caguán. Planting seeds of hope against the terror of the FARC," Colombian Defence Minister Rodrigo Rivera recently wrote in his Twitter account. Caguán is the area in southern Colombia [...]
No Impunity for Killing by Drones
June 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsReport GENEVA (IDN) – "If you use drones you must confirm and report who they killed," international lawyers say, adding: "Drones don’t allow hit and run." In fact, states that authorize or use armed drones as well as those who launch and control [...]
