POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job
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Stanley Kwenda
KIGALI, Mar 17 (IPS) – On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. [...]
ENVIRONMENT: Blame on Chinese Dams Rise as Mekong River Dries Up
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By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Mar 17, 2010 (IPS) – As the water level in the Mekong River dips to a record 50-year low, a familiar pattern of fault-finding has risen to the surface. China, the regional giant through which parts of South-east Asia’s largest waterway flows through, is again [...]
EDUCATION-SIERRA LEONE: Government Ignores Demands for Additional Teachers
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Lansana Fofana
FREETOWN, Mar 17 (IPS) – Ismail Conteh has been teaching for the past year-and-a-half at a primary school in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown – without receiving a single cent. He is one of hundreds of teachers recruited by schools to match the ever-growing number of pupils.
Since [...]
COLOMBIA: Vote-Buying and Front Men
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Javier Darío Restrepo*
BOGOTÁ, Mar 16 (IPS) – During Sunday’s legislative elections in Colombia – in which rightwing President Álvaro Uribe’s allies were the big winners – polling stations in one-third of the country’s municipalities were at risk of violence, corruption or fraud, according to the ombudsman’s office and [...]
TAVIS SMILEY | Guest: Michael Moore | PBS
PBS
March 15, 2010
Documentarian explains his anger over the lack of banking reform.
WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MOORE.
SRI LANKA: Managing Overseas Workers A Tough Balancing Act
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By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Mar 16 , 2010 (IPS) – The extent of Sri Lanka’s dependence on its one million citizens who work abroad can be gauged from officials who gleefully count the dollars that come in to sustain the country’s economy.
"Last year Sri Lankan workers remitted 3.3 [...]
POLITICS: Afghanistan Spy Contract Goes Sour for Pentagon
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Pratap Chatterjee*
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) – Mike Furlong, a top Pentagon official, is alleged to have run a covert network of contractors to supply information for drone strikes and assassinations in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the U.S. government.
The contract built upon his decade-long experience in running propaganda [...]
MIDEAST: Israeli Raids Target Children
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By Nora Barrows-Friedman
SILWAN, EAST JERUSALEM, Mar 16, 2010 (IPS) – Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters in the [...]
AFRICA: Corruption Carries High Cost, World Bank Says
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Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON, Mar 16 (IPS) – Poverty is on the rise in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and various forms of corruption threaten to undermine the impact of investments made to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the continent, said the World Bank in a report released Monday [...]
THAILAND: With Blood Spilt, Political Wounds Far from Healed
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Analysis – By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Mar 16 , 2010 (IPS) – A nearly four-kilometre arc of road that cuts through the historic part of the Thai capital, the site of the largest anti-government protests the country has seen in years, has brought into sharp relief a political wound [...]
MIDEAST: U.S.-Israeli Tensions Escalating Quickly
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) – The crisis touched off by last week’s announcement of Israel’s plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem during a high-profile visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be escalating rapidly.
Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to [...]
MIDEAST: An Unlikely Collision Takes Place
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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Mar 15, 2010 (IPS) – In the middle of last week, it seemed that the old cliché about the light at the end of the dark Middle East tunnel was being confirmed: the U.S. had successfully cajoled both Israel and [...]
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: All Eyes on Forest Protection Body
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Keya Acharya
KOTAGIRI, NILGIRI MOUNTAINS, India, Mar 15 (IPS) – Seemingly unstoppable development has made a mockery of the protected status of this southern Indian region, which houses vast biodiversity and some of the finest examples of moist deciduous and tropical forests.
In the last decade alone, the urban [...]
HEALTH-UGANDA: EU Supports Law Threatening Access to Medicines
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By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA, Mar 15 , 2010 (IPS) – The European Union (EU) is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in this low income East African country. Some 90 [...]
MALAYSIA: Creation of Commercial Hospital Wings a Mistake -Critics
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By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 15, 2010 (IPS) – A Malaysian government scheme to create commercial ‘private wings’ in major government hospitals has come under fire from critics, who say it will add to the burden of people who need public healthcare the most.
Already, campaigners have been [...]
Wars sending U.S. into ruin
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March 14, 2010
Eric Margolis: Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford.
