Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Raúl Pierri MONTEVIDEO, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – The governments and big private media groups in Latin America are waging a war to win over public opinion, the ultimate arbiter of legitimacy, and the only solution would appear to be to strike up an alliance. "Battle" was [...]
SRI LANKAN TAMILS: A DISCONCERTING SITUATION FOR INDIA
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN My attention has been drawn to a disturbing documentary titled “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” produced by Mr.Jon Snow of the Channel4 TV channel of the UK. 2.The documentary highlights the results of a forensic investigation into the bloody culmination phase of the counter-insurgency operations of the Sri Lankan Security [...]
Governments and Powers-That-Be Fear the Internet
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) – The global reach of the internet, and its ability to transmit information in real time and mobilise populations, creates fear among governments and the powerful, says Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of [...]
Can Mexico Shed Image as Ground Zero in Narco Wars?
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida WASHINGTON, Jun 4, 2011 (IPS) – Last year, the online branding company East-West Communications ranked Mexico 191st out of 200 countries on its Brand Perception Index, which is generated by analysing buzzwords in the international media’s quarterly and annual coverage of a certain country. Addressing [...]
The Myth and Reality of Pakistan in Crisis
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Shastri Ramachandaran* IDN-InDepth NewsReport MUMBAI (IDN) – Maleeha Lodhi, former editor of two leading Pakistani dailies, scholar and twice ambassador to the U.S. and the UK, was not on the list of insiders whom I very much wanted to meet during a recent visit to Pakistan. [...]
Pakistan Responds With Disbelief
May 4, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, May 4, 2011 (IPS) – The once elusive Osama bin Laden may be dead, but the way he was killed, the secrecy surrounding the covert mission, and the haste with which the body was buried at sea have provided grist for the rumour mill. [...]
SRI LANKA: War Long Over, Media Still Muzzled
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – It has been two years since the end of Sri Lanka’s decades long war, and life in general has begun to slowly edge back towards normalcy here. Not so for the country’s besieged media community, according to observers and [...]
EGYPT: Press Freedom Comes With a few Red Lines
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Cam McGrath CAIRO, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – The collapse of autocratic regimes in Tunisia and Egypt has broken the state’s stranglehold on the local press, but journalists and bloggers must still be careful what they say. "The red lines are very blurry at the moment," says [...]
‘Good News’ on Holocaust Anniversary
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – Israelis woke up in the morning of Holocaust Remembrance Day, switched on their radio, and heard unexpected "good news". Local stations broke their special programming marking the commemoration of the Second World War Nazi holocaust with a exceptional address [...]
‘Transformational Moment’ for Pakistan
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – Shabbir Hasan, 49, was woken up in the dead of the night to the sound of the "roar of a really low-flying helicopter." Hasan, a businessman, has lived in the hill station in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province all his [...]
