Thousands Call for Peace in Colombia

May 21, 2012 By

The Real News Network Thousands of victims of violence march in Bogota tell warlords they want an end to the conflict More at The Real News


Filed Under: Conflict, Human Rights, Inequality, Insurgency, Justice, Latin America, Politics, Social Justice, Video Tagged With: ,

Hopes To Heal Economy Through Devaluation, Which Has Hit Poor Hard

May 17, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, May 17, 2012 (IPS) – As Malawi’s poor struggle to afford food and other staple items since the 48 percent devaluation of the local currency against the dollar, economic commentators are optimistic that the move will provide an opportunity to boost the country’s export [...]


Filed Under: Africa, Development, Inequality, Poverty, Report, Trade Tagged With: ,

U.N. Warns of Social Fall-Out from Spain’s Austerity Plan

May 10, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – An expert body of the United Nations has warned the Spanish government that the severe budget cutbacks it is applying must not undermine its commitment to upholding the economic, social and cultural rights of the country’s people. Austerity measures [...]


Filed Under: Economic Crisis, Featured, Inequality, Social Justice, Unrest Tagged With: , ,

Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil’s Favelas

May 3, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet NOVA IGUAÇU, Brazil, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – Women in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of this city 40 km north of Rio de Janeiro no longer have to spend money on vegetables, because they have learned to grow their own, as organic urban gardening [...]


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Cashew Producers’ Pain Is Intermediaries’ Gain in Senegal

May 3, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Koffigan E. Adigbli ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits. The Casamance region produced 40 million dollars worth of cashews in [...]


Filed Under: Africa, Agriculture, Featured, Social Justice Tagged With:

Business20 Makes Its Weight Felt at G20 Meeting

April 20, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) – The concerns of the business community basically monopolised the first day of the meeting of trade and economy ministers of the G20 group of industrialised and emerging countries in this Mexican resort city Thursday. The meeting of [...]


Filed Under: Analysis, Development, Economic Policy, Economy, Environment, Social Justice Tagged With: , ,

U.S.: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not Big Banks

January 22, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – Occupy activists from Wall Street to San Francisco’s financial district have dramatised their anger with big financial institutions by blocking JP Morgan Chase Bank doorways, dancing atop Wells Fargo counters, pitching a tent in a Bank of [...]


Filed Under: Commentary, Finance, Politics, Social Justice, United States Tagged With: , ,

U.S.: "Money Isn’t Speech, Corporations Aren’t People"

January 22, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida NEW YORK, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – In most mainstream media the words "corruption" and "election fraud" accompany images of makeshift polling stations manned by armed guards in Burma or burning tires beside tattered ballot boxes in South Sudan – the insidiousness of stolen elections [...]


Filed Under: Featured, Human Rights, Inequality, Justice, Media, Social Justice, United States Tagged With: , ,

INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly

January 21, 2012 By

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By K.S. Harikrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea. Rani [...]


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Banks Holding 1.4 Trillion, Could Create 19 Million Jobs

December 22, 2011 By

The Real News Network December 21, 2011 Bob Pollin: Study looks at impact of 1.4 trillion in excess liquid asset holdings if put in productive investments More at The Real News


Filed Under: Economic Crisis, Economic Policy, Finance, Inequality, United States, Video Tagged With: ,
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