Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, May 2, 2010 (IPS) – Local civil society organisations and community groups who rushed to help victims after the powerful Cyclone Nargis tore through military-ruled Burma two years ago are reaping rewards for their risky and tireless labour. Their work in the relief and reconstruction [...]
Two Years after Nargis, Life Is Far from Normal
April 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Mon Mon Myat BOGALAY, Burma, Apr 30, 2010 (IPS) – Kyaw Moe is just in his 30s, but he is already on his second shot at life – just like the rest of the residents of Thakan Ngu, a tiny Burmese village in this township of Bogalay. On [...]
ENVIRONMENT-ICELAND: Living With Volcanic Eruption
April 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Lowana Veal REYKJAVIK, Apr 20 (IPS) – Incredible as it may seem, daily life for the vast majority of Icelanders is completely unaffected by the volcanic eruption under the Eyjafjallajökull glacier, that has left thousands of air passengers around the world stranded due to flight cancellations. The westerly and [...]
HAITI: Desperate Residents Flee Capital, But with Hopes of Return
January 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Rachel Pratt and Garry Pierre-Pierre* PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 21 (IPS) – Marjorie Louis and her two small children are sleeping in the street. Their home is in complete ruins. And Louis has no way to let her mother in Les Cayes know that she survived the deadliest natural disaster to [...]
HAITI: Humanitarian Aid or Military Occupation?
January 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY ASHLEY SMITH* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BURLINGTON, USA (IDN) – When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, George W. Bush displayed a callous disregard for the Black victims of the disaster. When his administration finally responded, it deployed the National Guard and armed Blackwater personnel to impose order, rather [...]
HAITI: No One Expected the ”Big One”
January 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Rachel Pratt and Garry Pierre-Pierre* PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 18 (IPS) – Marjorie Louis was sitting in her kitchen eating dinner when she felt the house shaking, but she didn’t get up. ”I didn’t think it wasn’t going to be serious… and was waiting for it to stop. But I noticed [...]
CATASTROPHE IN HAITI: The Natural and Not-So-Natural Factors
January 18, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY ASHLEY SMITH* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BURLINGTON, USA (IDN) – A devastating earthquake, the worst in 200 years, struck Port-au-Prince on January 12, laying waste to the city and killing untold numbers of people. The quake measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, and detonated more than 30 aftershocks, all more [...]
CLIMATE CHANGE-THAILAND: Bangkok: A Future Filled with Floods
November 20, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Ron Corben BANGKOK, Nov 20 (IPS) – Thailand’s capital, dubbed the ‘City of Angels’ and the ‘Venice of the East’, is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine. The 240-year-old Thai capital, located on the Chao Phraya River [...]
PHILIPPINES: Storm-Hit City under Constant Threat of Landslides
November 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Arthur Allad-iw BAGUIO CITY, Philippines, Nov 17 (IPS) – The storm has long subsided, and the torrential rainsùwhich battered this city known for its pristine charm and stately pine trees last monthùhave been gone for weeks. Yet fear still looms large over a community that had lost their homes [...]
EL SALVADOR: Nature Takes Advantage of Unlearned Lessons
November 10, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Edgardo Ayala SAN SALVADOR, Nov 9 (IPS) – Cruz Ayala, 55, weeps inconsolably over the bodies of his 71-year-old mother, Catalina, and his 15-year-old niece Carolina outside of a chapel in the town of Verapaz in the central Salvadoran province of San Vicente. The two were among the people [...]
