Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Sep 27, 2010 (IPS) – The vigorous comeback of the opposition in Venezuela’s newly elected parliament strengthens pluralism in this oil-rich country, although it may presage a new political crisis in the medium term, according to analysts. With almost 99 percent of the ballots [...]
POLITICS-THAILAND: Red-shirt Protest Leaders Up for Trial
September 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Sep 24, 2010 (IPS) – A landmark political trial begins on Monday when leaders of an anti-government protest movement, known as the ‘red shirts’, will be hauled before the criminal court to face alleged terrorism charges. The 19 accused include Veera Musikapong, leader of [...]
CAMBODIA: Gov’t Critic’s Conviction Casts Shadow Over Room For Dissent
September 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Irwin Loy PHNOM PENH, Sep 24, 2010 (IPS) – Questions hover over the future of Cambodia’s political opposition, as well as room for dissent, in the wake of the conviction and sentencing of the exiled leader of the country’s largest opposition party to 10 years in prison. [...]
VENEZUELA: Opposition Hopes to Make a Comeback
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – The campaign for Venezuela’s Sept. 26 legislative elections is officially on, and the opposition, which boycotted the last vote five years ago, is back in the running, hoping to win enough seats to act as a counterweight to President [...]
VENEZUELA: Opposition Leader Arrested for Remarks Denied Bail
March 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Mar 24 (IPS) – Venezuelan opposition leader Oswaldo Álvarez Paz will remain in police custody in the state intelligence service (SEBIN) until his trial, a local judge ruled Wednesday, on the grounds that he was a flight risk. The former state governor was arrested for remarks [...]
CHINA: Tide of Opposition Swells as Largest Dam Nears Completion
October 30, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Oct 30 (IPS) – Fifteen years after dynamite blasts first shattered the peace of China’s breathtaking Three Gorges, the Three Gorges Dam—the pride of China’s engineering progress—is nearing completion. But the cannonade of criticism bombarding the world’s largest and costliest dam in history is far [...]
U.S.: Foreign Policy Hawks Launch New Campaign Against Obama
October 13, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) – Just days after the Nobel Committee in Oslo awarded Barack Obama its coveted peace prize, two of Washington’s most prominent foreign policy hawks launched a new group and ad campaign designed to depict the president as weak and defend the more aggressive [...]
ARGENTINA: Opposition, Media Giants to Fight New Law
October 12, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Oct 12 (IPS) – While civil society groups celebrated Argentina’s new broadcasting law, media giants threatened to fight it with a wave of lawsuits, and opposition lawmakers pledged to revise it after the next Congress convenes in December. In the new legislature, the result of [...]
IRAN: Harsh Crackdown Extends to Leading Opposition Figures
June 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Sara Farhang TEHRAN, Jun 23 (IPS) – Eleven days after Iran’s disputed Jun. 12 president election, the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears determined to round up key members of the opposition, journalists and human rights activists who could play a key role in rallying public support for opposition [...]
