Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) – Malaysia’s new internal security law is as draconian as the colonial law it has replaced, but has the saving grace that it will not target political opponents of the government, say critics. After a 52-year history of serious [...]
U.S.-Mexico Border Build-Up Found Excessive
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) – While Republican politicians and other "border hawks" call for ever-tougher measures to secure the U.S.-Mexican border against drug trafficking and illegal immigration, a one-year bi-national study released here Thursday suggests that current efforts may be excessive. The study, a [...]
Protest Time in Tunisia Again
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jake Lippincott TUNIS, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) – Thousands of centre-left demonstrators violently clashed with police in street battles that completely shut down central Tunis last week, left scores seriously injured and underlined the persistent divisions in Tunisian society. The demonstrations were organised by several political parties, [...]
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 [...]
Over 165,000 Students On Strike in Quebec Over Planned Tuition Hikes
April 16, 2012 By
The Real News Network Students lead tens of thousands in protests against tuition hikes and neoliberal reforms of Quebec government More at The Real News
Indian Communists Lose Marx, and Hope
April 15, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sujoy Dhar NEW DELHI, Apr 14, 2012 (IPS) – While India’s largest left outfit, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), was licking its electoral wounds, a newly-elected regime in West Bengal was busy chopping chapters on Marxism and the Bolshevik Revolution out of high school syllabi, in [...]
BELARUS: Political Prisoners Facing Oppression
January 24, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Robert Stefanicki WARSAW, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) – "I had to fight to be treated like a human, not animal," dissident Nikolai Avtukhovich wrote from prison. Last month Avtukhovich, Belarusian political activist and entrepreneur, convicted to five years in the penal colony for illegal storage of five [...]
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 [...]
HIZBUT-TAHRIR ( HT) STEPS UP ATTEMPTS TO SUBVERT BD ARMY
January 22, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN It is learnt from reliable sources that the Bangladesh authorities suspect that the Hizbut-Tahrir (HT), Party of Liberation, banned in October 2009 had links with 16 middle-level officers of the Bangladesh Army involved in the plot to stage a coup against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which was discovered in [...]
