Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Bego Astigarraga ATHENS, Jun 30, 2011 (IPS) – The mass protests in Greece swelled by the hour as parliament voted this Thursday to implement the social and economic adjustment plan approved Wednesday, including measures for privatisation, tax hikes, spending cuts and mass lay-offs in the state sector. [...]
U.S.: New Yorkers Occupy Streets to Protest Budget Cuts
June 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Whitman NEW YORK, Jun 25, 2011 (IPS) – They have taken over a strip of the sidewalk at Park Place and Broadway, handing out flyers to passersby and taping posters to the ground and to the metal crossbars of the scaffolding that shelters them from the [...]
Protests Follow Syrian President’s Speech
June 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Protesters have taken to the streets across Syria to denounce a speech by President Bashar al-Assad, saying his address did not meet popular demands for sweeping political reform. Rallies were held in major cities including Homs, Hama, Latakia [...]
Greek Protesters Are Better Economists Than the European Authorities
June 18, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Originally published on The Guardian Unlimited, June 17, 2011 See this article on the original website Mark Weisbrot Imagine that in the worst year of our recent recession, the United States government decided to reduce its federal budget deficit by more than $800 billion dollars – cutting spending and raising [...]
Governments and Powers-That-Be Fear the Internet
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) – The global reach of the internet, and its ability to transmit information in real time and mobilise populations, creates fear among governments and the powerful, says Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of [...]
BELARUS: Despite Crackdown, Opposition is Defiant
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Robert Stefanicki WARSAW, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) – President Alexander Lukashenko has locked most of his rivals in jail, but the Belarus opposition continues to work diligently to isolate the dictator. The December 2010 elections left Lukashenko – president of Belarus since 1994 – at helm for [...]
YEMEN: A COMPLEX STRUGGLE FOR POWER
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Since January last, Yemen has been going through a complex power struggle with Yemeni characteristics, resulting in an almost civil war situation which has already seen the death of over 350 people. 2.An inter-tribal armed struggle for power and a peaceful struggle of the youth for political reforms and [...]
MIDEAST: Palestinian Spring Brings Nothing New
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Eva Bartlett BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) – It is a scene replayed weekly in Palestine. In Gaza, groups of chanting demonstrators walk towards the border with Israel, singing, chanting, dancing. Ayat el Masari, 20, walks with the masses. An English major at Gaza’s [...]
Morocco’s Uprisings and All The King’s Men
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Thousands poured into the streets of Rabat on Sunday Jun. 5 to condemn the death of a protester and to demand an end to the country-wide government crackdown on peaceful demonstrations. "We are here today to protest the [...]
