Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Mar 22, 2011 (IPS) – Israeli settlers observed their own ‘Day of Rage’ last Thursday, launching reprisal attacks on Palestinians for the recent murder of a settler family in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, and the demolition of a settlement [...]
Syria Protesters Torch Buildings
March 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents * DOHA, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Crowds have set fire to the courthouse and other buildings on a third straight day of demonstrations in the southern Syrian city of Daraa. Residents said one person was killed and scores injured when security forces used live [...]
MEXICO-US: Little Spillover of "Narco-Deaths"
March 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana and Aprille Muscara CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico/WASHINGTON, Mar 19, 2011 (IPS) – In the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas the media sounded the alarm: six murders committed in just two months, more than the 2010 total of five. Just across the Mexican border, in the [...]
Palestinian Village Under Siege Following Settler Killings
March 16, 2011 By
Global Political Economy Net / IPS By Mel Frykberg AWARTA, West Bank, March 15, 2011 (IPS) – Food supplies are running low, ambulances have been detained for hours at checkpoints, and hundreds of young men have been held, interrogated and beaten up, some requiring hospitalisation, in the Palestinian village of Awarta in the northern West [...]
WOMEN’S DAY: DRC Mobile Court a Sign of Hope
March 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Baudry Aluma BUKAVU, DR Congo, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – Eleven soldiers found culpable in the rape of more than 50 women in the Congolese town of Fizi Centre in January, have begun serving lengthy sentences in the provincial capital, Bukavu. Their speedy trial and sentencing by [...]
Ivorian Women Fatally Shot at Rally
March 4, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents – * IPS/AJ ABIDJAN, Mar 4, 2011 (IPS) – Security forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, Cote d’Ivoire’s disputed president, have shot dead at least six women at a demonstration in support of his rival, Alassane Ouattara, witnesses said. Thursday’s shooting took place after several hundred women [...]
WINDS OF HATRED CONTINUE TO SWEEP ACROSS PAKISTAN
March 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN At a time when winds of change have been sweeping across many Islamic countries with calls for greater freedom and democracy, winds of hatred continue to sweep across Pakistan. 2. Pakistan, which has become over the years a breeding ground of Islamic beliefs of the most irrational and extreme [...]
Families Trapped in Cote d’Ivoire
March 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* ABIDJAN, Mar 2, 2011 (IPS/AJ) – Armed men have blocked some 60 families without food or water from leaving a church in Cote d’Ivoire’s commercial city, the U.N. says. One man who escaped the violence-plagued neighbourhood in Abidjan’s Abobo district described "fleeing the smell of the [...]
Iran Steps Up Crackdown on Opposition Leaders
February 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Omid Memarian SAN FRANCISCO, U.S., Feb 22, 2011 (IPS) – On Monday night, Iranian security agents raided the home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, separating him from his wife, searching his house and arresting his son, Ali Karroubi, according to the local media outlet Saham News. Karroubi’s [...]
Now Gaddafi Makes the Same Mistake
February 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Emad Mekay CAIRO, Feb 23, 2011 (IPS) – The brutal response by Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi against pro- democracy protestors in the country indicates his determination not to leave office without a bloody battle, but his moves follow the path that eventually led to ouster of [...]
