Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Jan 17 , 2012 (IPS) – Teachers’ Day on Jan. 16 was a sombre affair in Thailand’s troubled southern provinces where memories are strong of 155 educators killed over the past eight years in an insurgency led by Malay-Muslim separatists. Yet, this grim fact [...]
Remilitarisation of Africa Set to Fail
November 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Horace Campbell* IDN-InDepth NewsEssay – Part 1 of 3 Kenya’s foray into Somalia, led from behind by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), represents a heightened threat to peace and reconstruction in Africa, especially East Africa. This Western-supported incursion is more against the Kenyan people than against the forces [...]
Ex-PM Says Taliban Offer Talks For Pullout Date
July 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* KABUL, Jul 28, 2011 (IPS) – The Taliban leadership is ready to negotiate peace with the United States right now if Washington indicates its willingness to provide a timetable for complete withdrawal, according to a former Afghan prime minister who set up a secret meeting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PAKISTAN: Taliban Use Human Shields Against Army Offensive
June 16, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Jun 16, 2011 (IPS) – Thousands of civilians are virtually being held hostage in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, where the outlawed Taliban have been refusing them passage to safer areas ahead of a government plan to intensify army offensives. Some were able [...]
AFGHANISTAN: Debate Rages over U.S. Withdrawal
June 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jun 8, 2011 (IPS) – With only three weeks left before U.S. military forces are scheduled to begin withdrawing from Afghanistan, the debate over the size and pace of that withdrawal has become increasingly intense. On one hand, the Pentagon, backed by prominent neo-conservatives [...]
PAKISTAN: Tribes Plead for End to Army Offensives
June 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Jun 7, 2011 (IPS) – Fear and anxiety have spread among residents of North Waziristan in northwest Pakistan after U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen, outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced that the Pakistani government would launch a major offensive in the area. [...]
INDIA: Kashmir in Search of Lost Culture
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Athar Parvaiz SRINAGAR, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – While the conflict in Indian Kashmir and the destruction it has caused often makes the news, its impact on culture has hardly gotten any attention. Although the armed conflict is on the ebb, cultural events have yet to stage [...]
