Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – History is in the making with two sites where the United States left its indelible nuclear footprints — the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall archipelago and Japan’s legendary city of Hiroshima — sending new signals. The World Heritage Committee meeting [...]
COLOMBIA-VENEZUELA: Bolívar’s Heirs Clash on Bicentennial
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Aug 3, 2010 (IPS) – The latest political and diplomatic conflict between Colombia and Venezuela has coincided with celebrations of the bicentennial of the two countries’ independence, won by their common liberator Simón Bolívar, whose ideals of integration continue to be undermined. Colombian President [...]
New Hardships Intensify Debate Over Iran-Iraq War
August 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Farideh Farhi* HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Aug 3, 2010 (IPS) – Ongoing factional disputes and mounting international sanctions have ignited heated debates among Iran’s elites about another critical period in the country’s post- revolutionary history – the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. That war, in which at least a [...]
HUMAN RIGHTS: Peru’s Past to Serve as Evidence in Spanish Judge’s Trial
July 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA , Jul 2, 2010 (IPS) – Human rights crimes committed in Peru in the 1990s — initially amnestied but later tried in court — will be presented in the trial of Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón as evidence that crimes against humanity cannot be legally [...]
Int’l Trial on Dictatorship’s Atrocities Taints Brazil’s Image
June 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Leonel Plügel RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 7 (IPS) – A case against Brazil in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations of human rights committed by the 1964-1985 military dictatorship, and the country’s failure to bring those responsible to trial at home, are a smear on the [...]
ARGENTINA: Two Centuries of Environmental Destruction
May 19, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, May 19 (IPS) – In the 1830s, the sheer abundance and diversity of plants and animals in Argentina — whether on land or in the water — astounded British naturalist Charles Darwin during his famed tours of South America. Nearly two centuries later, as [...]
Q&A: The Man Who Unearthed 200 Mass Graves in Spain
May 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Miren Gutiérrez interviews Spanish forensic Dr FRANCISCO ETXEBERRIA SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, May 12 (IPS) – Francisco Etxeberria’s work causes blisters and earns him animosity as well as admiration. He and his team of forensic experts, anthropologists, archaeologists and others have unearthed 200 mass graves, exhuming the remains of [...]
Old ‘New’ Britain
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Old ‘New’ Britain By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis http://www.indepthnews.net/ LONDON (IDN) – Critics of post-modernism say that this “condition”, as David Harvey once aptly put it, is marked by the aim of “having the best possible narrative” of history. That is, for post-modernity the content of the historical [...]
SECURITY FOCUS ON HUAWEI IN INDIA
May 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN There has been an increasing focus by the Indian counter-intelligence agencies on the expanding presence, activities and business of the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which is stated to have the largest mobile telephone business network in the world after Ericsson. Ever since the 1990s, there have been concerns in the [...]
Confronting the Bliss of Ignorance about Africa
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – Somalia hit the top of the chart for the third consecutive year when the 2010 Failed States Index was recently unveiled by Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace. Several African states followed Somalia in the first 20 [...]