Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Rebecca Murray NANGARHAR, Afghanistan , Dec 4, 2011 (IPS) – A small plot of urban land has pitted Assadullah, 55, against an unwelcome neighbour in a bitter personal property dispute that has stretched on for almost a decade. Assadullah’s story is a common one. A working-class barber [...]
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 [...]
KARACHI, BEIRUT OF SOUTH ASIA
July 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Karachi stands in danger of turning into another Beirut of the 1970s and 1980s if the Government of Pakistan does not wake up in time to the implications of the unending clashes between the Mohajirs and the Pashtuns, between the Barelvis and the Deobandis and between the Shias and [...]
MIDEAST: Palestinians Won’t Learn Israeli Lessons
July 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours EAST JERUSALEM, Jul 12, 2011 (IPS) – Widespread strikes across Palestinian civil society could be in store for East Jerusalem at the start of the next school year, as the municipality moves ahead with its current plan to implement an Israeli curriculum in Palestinian schools. [...]
SUDAN: Close to War As the South Prepares to Celebrate Independence
July 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Reem Abbas KHARTOUM, Jul 8, 2011 (IPS) – Sudan is closest to civil war since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005. Mariam Al Sadig, a leading figure in the Umma Party, one of Sudan’s main opposition parties, said that the conflict in Southern [...]
The Benefits of Medicaid | Mother Jones
July 7, 2011 By
The Benefits of Medicaid | Mother Jones — By Kevin Drum | Thu Jul. 7, 2011 8:45 AM PDT When education researchers study charter schools, the gold standard is to compare kids who won a lottery to get in with kids who lost the lottery. That way you can be pretty sure that the kids [...]
GREECE: Public Outrage over Austerity Plan
July 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Bego Astigarraga ATHENS, Jun 30, 2011 (IPS) – The mass protests in Greece swelled by the hour as parliament voted this Thursday to implement the social and economic adjustment plan approved Wednesday, including measures for privatisation, tax hikes, spending cuts and mass lay-offs in the state sector. [...]
U.S.: New Yorkers Occupy Streets to Protest Budget Cuts
June 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Whitman NEW YORK, Jun 25, 2011 (IPS) – They have taken over a strip of the sidewalk at Park Place and Broadway, handing out flyers to passersby and taping posters to the ground and to the metal crossbars of the scaffolding that shelters them from the [...]
