Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Paul Weinberg TORONTO, Nov 8, 2010 (IPS) – The corporate clout of the mining industry trumped political ideology in Canada when members of all political parties helped to narrowly defeat a bill late last month that would have imposed standards on Canadian mining companies operating in developing [...]
VIETNAM: Salinisation, Drought Bring Worries to Mekong Delta
March 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Tran Dinh Thanh Lam MEKONG DELTA, Vietnam, Mar 18, 2010 (IPS) – He has worked this land for half of 64 years and is known among his fellow farmers in Kien Giang province here in the Mekong Delta as ‘lao nong’, or the old master of rice. But [...]
