Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zak Brophy BEIRUT, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – The Lebanese army seized a ship last weekend carrying three containers filled with weapons reportedly intended for Syria’s rebel fighters. Although Lebanon has remained relatively stable throughout the sustained violence next door in Syria, this discovery is the most [...]
Impassioned Plea for Averting War with Iran
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsReport LONDON (IDN) – Pax Christi, the International Catholic Movement for Peace, has made an impassioned plea for averting war with Iran. "Surely such a war would spell worldwide disaster, and it’s up to movements like us to send a strong message against military aggression," Pax Christi [...]
What The Arab Spring Means For Freedom
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Megan Martin* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) – Wielding mobile phones and computers, the young activists across the Middle East have altered the way the world approaches popular mobilization, social networks and Internet freedom. The Internet can be a transformational force for societies and individuals, allowing for [...]
Standing Down as Iran’s Power Struggle Unfolds
April 16, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Jen Alic of Oilprice.com A strike on Iran, however limited, would push the current internal power struggle to a premature end that would not be in the US’ best interests – that is the message, whether intentional or not, of the recent "intelligence leak" that has provided [...]
Cracks Widen in Syrian Economy
January 24, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mona Alami BEIRUT, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) – As the Syrian uprising enters its tenth month, the country’s economy is suffering. Since last March, the Syrian government has been cracking down on pro-democracy protests, and the once peaceful uprising has morphed into a full-blown armed rebellion in [...]
MIDEAST: Into an Unsettled New Year
January 22, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mya Guarnieri HEBRON, Jan 22, 2012 (IPS) – An elderly Palestinian woman spent last week on hunger strike to protest violent attacks by Israeli settlers. Hana Abu Heikel went on the hunger strike on behalf of her family after settlers burned the family car during the previous [...]
China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development
January 21, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary Iosif Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, [...]
TURKEY: Filtering Out Internet Freedom
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS ANKARA, Jan 19, 2012 (IPS) – Fifteen respected academics from different Turkish universities signed a declaration in Ankara last week protesting recent state regulations restricting access to a variety of websites on ‘moral’ and ‘national integrity’ grounds. Simultaneously, thousands of angry netizens held street demonstrations in several major [...]
Egypt Continues March to Democracy
January 18, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Woman casting her vote By Ernest Corea* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – As the January 23 deadline for the inauguration of Egypt’s first post-Mubarak People’s Assembly (parliament) approaches, the thoughts of politically conscious Egyptians must inevitably turn to the conundrums that lie beyond the recently concluded elections. [...]
Egypt’s March To Democracy Moves On
December 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Collage of election pictures By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – "This first round (of post-Mubarak elections in Egypt) was truly great. No violence, good participation, many candidates. Orderly queues, waiting hours if need be….It is a most promising start for a new future. The people [...]
