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 [...]
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 [...]
EGYPT: It’s January Again in Tahrir Square
November 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Nov 23, 2011 (IPS) – Days of clashes between protesters and security forces culminated on Tuesday evening in what was estimated to be a million-man rally in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand an end to military rule. The new political [...]
Iran Prepares for Parliamentary Elections amid Uncertainty
September 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Yasaman Baji TEHRAN, Sep 11, 2011 (IPS) – Uncertainty and confusion, particularly among the highly factionalised conservatives that have dominated Iranian politics since 2005, appear to be the order of the day some seven months before next March’s parliamentary elections. Given the harsh repression that followed the [...]
Arab Spring Slips Into Tunisian Fall
August 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Simba Russeau TUNIS, Aug 22, 2011 (IPS) – Seven months after Tunisia’s historic uprising which saw the ouster of long-time dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and gave birth to the region’s Arab Spring, many Tunisians are losing confidence in the progress of their revolution. Last year, Tunisia [...]
Pockets of Resistance As Rebels Claim Tripoli
August 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA and TRIPOLI, Aug 22, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – The head of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC) has announced the end of the Muammar Gaddafi era, while sporadic fighting continued across the capital, Tripoli. Fighting and gun battles erupted in parts of Tripoli on Monday after [...]
MIDEAST: Into an Unsettled New Year
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 [...]