Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Mar 31, 2011 (IPS) – As forces loyal to Ivorian President-elect Alassane Ouattara closed in on Abidjan Thursday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called for the incumbent president, Laurent Gbabgo, to immediately step down. Amid the most [...]
Public Momentum Builds Against Nukes
March 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25, 2011 (IPS) – Willing or not, the handful of nations armed with nuclear bombs will likely find it ever more difficult in the next few years to reject growing international opinion in support of complete abolition of nuclear weapons, anti-nukes activists [...]
No Plans for Regime Change in Libya, Assures U.N. Chief
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon brushed aside widespread speculation that the U.S.-led military attacks on Libya is part of a much-wider plan with a hidden political agenda: the ouster of Muammar el-Gaddafi from power. "We have a very clear [...]
LIBYA: U.N. Chief’s Ambivalent Role in the No-Fly Zone
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – When the U.N. Security Council adopted a wide-ranging resolution last week recommending humanitarian and military action inside Libya, both U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa were assigned key roles in "coordinating" the implementation of [...]
Israel Accused of ‘A Form of Ethnic Cleansing’
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – "If the regime that encourages incitement, racism and anti-democracy is not toppled soon, we will find that the future is already here," says Israeli columnist Sefi Rachlevsky in the Israeli daily ‘Haaretz’. He adds: "If there is one country [...]
B.RAMAN – LIBYA: INCREASING CONFUSION
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN “The rebels’ strategy is to push west but this has got off to a halting start, and without further concerted air strikes it is difficult to see how this rag-tag army will ever achieve its aim of unseating Col Gaddafi.” —Ian Pannell, the BBC correspondent in East Libya, in [...]
Q&A: "Women Must Be Part of the Peace Equation"
March 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Rousbeh Legatis interviews MAVIC CABRERA-BALLEZA, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – Eleven years ago, 192 countries – all the United Nations member states – agreed to step up the integration of women in international peacebuilding and security processes, a promise that has [...]
Gaddafi Challenged To Impose Genuine Ceasefire
March 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON D.C. (IDN) – Egypt’s President Anwar el Sadat once said that President Muammar el Gaddafi was a "strange person" and later called him a "mad man". Asked for his reaction to Sadat’s scathing assertion, Gaddafi tersely replied: "Sadat is not a [...]
B.RAMAN – LIBYA: OPTIONS FOR INDIA & RUSSIA
March 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN I can understand the decision of India, Russia and China to abstain in the voting in the UN Security Council (UNSC) on March 18,2011, on the resolution authorising the enforcement of a No Fly Zone over Libya to prevent Libyan air stikes against anti-Muammar Gaddafi rebels and civilians and [...]
A Moment of Silence for Dying Millions on World Water Day
March 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18, 2011 (IPS) – When the international community commemorates World Water Day next week, perhaps it should ponder the words of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who once remarked he does not expect people the world over to stop what they are doing [...]
