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U.S.-Afghan Pact Won’t End War – Or SOF Night Raids
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS) – The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accompanying it emphasise transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war. But the only substantive agreement reached between [...]
PAKISTAN: Tribes Plead for End to Army Offensives
June 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Jun 7, 2011 (IPS) – Fear and anxiety have spread among residents of North Waziristan in northwest Pakistan after U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen, outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced that the Pakistani government would launch a major offensive in the area. [...]
Tajikistan’s New Generation of Guerrillas
May 25, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Portia Crowe NEW YORK, May 24, 2011 (IPS) – While most of the world is closely watching the Middle East, monitoring the human rights situations in Bahrain, Syria, Libya and Israel, the International Crisis Group (ICG) is keeping its eye on neighbouring Central Asia. On Tuesday, the [...]
Obama Troop Surge Decision Ignored Pak-Taliban Ties
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 22, 2011 (IPS) – The unilateral U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden created a spike in mutual recriminations between U.S. and Pakistani politicians, but their fundamental conflict of interest over Afghanistan was already driving the two countries toward serious confrontation. The [...]
Deferring to Petraeus, NIE Failed to Register Taliban Growth
February 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Feb 14, 2011 (IPS) – Despite evidence that the Taliban insurgency had grown significantly in 2010, the U.S. intelligence community failed to revise its estimate for Taliban forces as part of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan in December. That unusual decision was [...]
RIGHTS-PERU: At Last, Reparations for Civil War Victims
February 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar LIMA, Feb 9, 2011 (IPS) – Peru will begin to pay individual monetary reparations to victims and survivors of the 1980-2000 counterinsurgency war, with top priority put on elderly people in remote villages in the country’s impoverished highlands, where most of the human rights violations [...]
A Janus View of Guatemala
December 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Julio Godoy http://www.indepthnews.net/ GUATEMALA CITY (IDN) – Something extraordinary happened in Guatemala City on December 2: Jean Marie Simon’s historic photos of the crimes committed by the Guatemalan army during the civil war’s peak years that exsanguinated the Central American country between 1979 and 1983, were shown [...]
RIGHTS-PERU: US Court OKs Extradition of ‘Butcher of the Andes’
November 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Nov 3, 2010 (IPS) – A U.S. appeals court has given the green light to the extradition to Peru of retired Peruvian army officer Telmo Hurtado, who fled to Miami in 2002 to escape trial for the Aug. 14, 1985 massacre of 69 people [...]
PAKISTAN: HOW TO EXTRACT PROTECTION MONEY FROM US
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The third US-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue for the year 2010 concluded at Washington DC on October 22,2010. The two sides fielded high-power delegations for the dialogue as they had done for the first two rounds held earlier this year in Washington DC and Islamabad. The US delegation was headed by [...]
