Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally Published on Oilprice.com By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com The good news is that on 8 November the International Energy Agency released its 2011 “World Energy Outlook.” While it will cheer nuclear advocates, overall the report makes for grim reading. Pulling no punches, the report states at the outset, [...]
Japan Disaster May Hold Lessons for Haves and Have-Nots
March 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jutta Wolf IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Over 45 countries, ranging from sophisticated economies to developing nations, were actively considering embarking upon nuclear power programmes. The front runners were Iran, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Italy, Vietnam and Jordan, a new report said. Whether the shocking experience [...]
New Vienna Organisation to Spur Disarmament
March 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jamshed Baruah IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN/VIENNA (IDN) – The Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation is a new feather in the cap for Austria, which served as a bridge between East and West under the leadership of Chancellor Bruno Kreisky in the 1970s, and was the venue [...]
BURMA: Loophole Gives Junta Room to Go Nuclear in Secrecy
July 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Jul 21, 2010 (IPS) – Thanks to a loophole in the international regime to control the proliferation of nuclear weapons, military-ruled Burma could very well carry out its reported intent to go nuclear behind a veil of secrecy, free of scrutiny from the International [...]
IRAN: Worries Mount over Sanctions’ Ripple Effect
July 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Omid Memarian WASHINGTON, Jul 8, 2010 (IPS) – Although the United States and its allies insist that the latest round of U.N. sanctions against Iran targets high-level government officials rather than the general population, interviews with a number of analysts, activists and journalists in Tehran reveal a [...]
Heinonen Pushed Dubious Iran Nuclear Weapons Intel
July 3, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Jul 2, 2010 (IPS) – Olli Heinonen, the Finnish nuclear engineer who resigned Thursday after five years as deputy director for safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was the driving force in turning that agency into a mechanism to support U.N. [...]
MIDEAST: ‘France, U.S. Pushing Arabs Into Nuclear Race’
October 25, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Fareed Mahdy* ISTANBUL, Oct 25 (IPS) – The decision by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to build nuclear reactors has unleashed frenetic, politically backed competition between giant corporations from France, the U.S., Japan and South Korea to win contracts estimated at more than 40 billion dollars. This may [...]
U.S.: Public Sceptical and Hawkish on Iran
October 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (IPS) – Despite strong support for diplomatic engagement with Iran, most U.S. citizens believe such efforts will ultimately fail and that Washington should be prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to a new poll released here [...]
POLITICS: Leaked Iran Paper Based on Intel that Split IAEA
October 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (IPS) – Excerpts of the internal draft report by the staff of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published online last week show that the report’s claims about Iranian work on a nuclear weapon is based almost entirely on intelligence documents which [...]
Dangerous Nuclear Game in the Middle East
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Fareed Mahdy IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis ISTANBUL (IDN) – The Middle East panorama is now gloomier. The six-decade long conflict has been further aggravated by a dangerous nuclear game. Israel continues to refuse joining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The U.S. clogs all attempts to declare the Middle East an [...]