Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Although the public identifies human rights organisations in Latin America with resistance to the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s, for years now these groups have broadened their concerns to encompass environmental and other issues. Environmental conflicts over [...]
MEXICO: Activists Organise Against Spiralling Threats
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – "Open the door! Open the door, you SOBs!" Policemen dressed in black, wearing balaclavas and carrying "what I suppose were high-power rifles" broke down the door of the home of Efraín Bartolomé, a poet who lives on the [...]
CHINA IS CHANGING
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Recent events in the port city of Dalian in north-east China where public protests forced the local Government to accept a demand for closing down a chemical plant following an accident and for re-locating it elsewhere show a new style of political management. This new style is marked by [...]
MEXICO-RIGHTS: Activists Tell U.N. High Commissioner They’re in Danger
July 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Jul 8, 2011 (IPS) – Reports of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, kidnappings and assaults are some of the heavy baggage that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is taking home from Mexico. Pillay, who ended an official visit here Friday, met [...]
MIDEAST: ‘Flytilla’ Debacle Another PR Nightmare For Israel
July 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg BEN GURION AIRPORT, Tel Aviv, Jul 10, 2011 (IPS) – Confused foreign tourists arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Friday would be forgiven for thinking that a terrorist attack was about to take place. Hundreds of armed Israeli soldiers and police spread throughout [...]
OP-ED: The Good News About Coal
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Lester R. Brown* WASHINGTON, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – During the years when governments and the media were focused on preparations for the 2009 Copenhagen climate negotiations, a powerful climate movement was emerging in the United States: the movement opposing the construction of new coal-fired power plants. [...]
Tourism, Climate Change – Threats to Antarctic Wilderness
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – Too many tourists and too much climate change are the main concerns of environmental organisations and the governments of signatory countries of the Antarctic Treaty, which came into effect 50 years ago. At the 34th Antarctic Treaty Consultative [...]
Pyrrhic Victory for the Israeli Ship Of State
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint By Eric Walberg* CAIRO (IDN) – Israel has extended its criminal siege of Gaza and occupation of the West Bank to Greek and other European airports. In doing so, it is encouraging anti-Jewish sentiment where there is none, by way of insisting it speaks on [...]