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
U.S.: Tea Party Loses in Fight with Big Business
May 17, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 (IPS) – For leaders of the right-wing populist "Tea Party" who have bragged about their growing influence – if not domination – of the Republican Party, the past week’s battle over the future of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) has been [...]
The Political Drones Get Louder
May 17, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, May 17, 2012 (IPS) – Growing numbers of activists are beginning to counter U.S. Drone attacks into Pakistani territory. The activists are confronting the U.S., but increasingly now the Pakistani government for allowing such attacks to continue. The Tehreek Insaf party led by former [...]
The Pirate Party Knows Where the Money Is
May 16, 2012 By
Republished on Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Al Jazeera English, May 14, 2012 See the article on the original website By Dean Baker One of the oddities of recent election results in Germany and elsewhere in northern Europe is the rise of the Pirate Party. This party received 7.8 percent of the vote in North [...]
Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US
May 12, 2012 By
Published on May 8, 2012 by TheRealNews Dean Baker: Austerity policy hitting a dead end, threat to US is a sovereign default leading to financial crisis. More at The Real News
Will New French President Challenge Germany?
May 12, 2012 By
The Real News Network May 7, 2012 Mark Kesselman: The big question is whether Mr. Hollande will be a lion or the mouse that roared More at The Real News
Round One to Radical Left, Round Two to Europe?
May 12, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 12, 2012 (IPS) – Kosmas Bitros (29) didn’t "believe in politics and in elections as a way of changing society". Still, he showed up at the ballot boxes for the first time last Sunday to cast a vote against austerity in the [...]
Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico
May 10, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – Although Mexico has signed several multilateral anti-corruption agreements, so far these instruments have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement, according to experts. "We have the necessary legal instruments, but they are rarely [...]
China: Behind and Beyond Bo Xilai’s Sacking
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis http://www.indepthnews.net/ NEW DELHI (IDN) – Much has been written about Bo Xilai, the charismatic party secretary of the southwestern city of Chongqing who was sacked from the 25-member Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC). And, much more is likely to be written in the [...]
