Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Barbara Slavin WASHINGTON, May 3, 2011 (IPS) – The U.S. discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden in a compound some 50 kilometres from Islamabad is a "defining moment" for a U.S.-Pakistan relationship fraught with duplicity and dashed expectations. U.S. and Pakistani officials and foreign policy experts [...]
PAK PERFIDY WILL HAVE NO ENDURING IMPACT ON ITS TIES WITH US
May 4, 2011 By
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 [...]
BAHRAIN: U.S. Keeps Quiet over Repression
April 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Apr 13, 2011 (IPS) – If President Barack Obama wanted to place Washington "on the right side of history" during the ongoing "Arab Spring", his reaction to recent events in Bahrain will likely make that far more difficult, according to a growing number of [...]
DEVELOPMENT: India and South Africa — Ever-Tightening Relations
April 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Louise Redvers JOHANNESBURG, Apr 11, 2011 (IPS) – Much is made about China’s footprint in Africa but what about its emerging markets rival India? As the world’s fourth largest economy, and with a middle class of more than 400 million people (larger than the entire population of [...]
Dominican Republic Seeks Greater Autonomy for CARIFORUM
April 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Peter Richards PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Apr 11, 2011 (IPS) – The first public hint that something was amiss within the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) bloc came last week from Belize’s foreign minister, Wilfred Elrington, when his country hosted the 18th meeting of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Council [...]
The Left, West and Military Intervention in Libya
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Lance Selfa* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint CHICAGO (IDN) – The White House-massaged media spin portrays President Barack Obama’s decision to go to war in Libya as a triumph for a triumvirate of liberals — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN Ambassador Susan Rice, and Obama adviser Samantha Power [...]
U.S.-SYRIA: Neo-Cons Target Assad Regime
March 31, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Mar 30, 2011 (IPS) – Despite the clear opposition of the Barack Obama administration and apparent ambivalence on the part of the right-wing government in Israel, neo-conservative hawks here have set their sights on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who they hope will be the [...]
MIDEAST: Washington’s Patchwork Policy on Democracy
March 31, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By David Elkins WASHINGTON, Mar 30, 2011 (IPS) – While a NATO-led coalition continues to enforce a no-fly zone in a Libya that seems to be on the brink of catastrophe, the Barack Obama administration has yet to formulate a set of guiding principles in dealing with ongoing [...]
Fukushima Disaster Impacts India
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis MUMBAI (IDN) – Uncertainty looms large over India’s ambitious civilian nuclear programme as a consequence of the triple disasters that have struck Japan. For one, the civilian nuclear agreement, which New Delhi and Tokyo were negotiating, is certain to be indefinitely delayed. Also, operationalisation of [...]
Obama Leaves Door Open to Regime Change in Libya
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara WASHINGTON, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – The fate of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi remains up in the air after the United States and its allied partners began missile strikes over the weekend to impose a no-fly zone (NFZ) in the North African country. "[T]he six-million-dollar [...]
