By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Feb (IPS) – The 15-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Thursday pleaded with the United Nations to immediately deploy a multinational peacekeeping force to resolve the ongoing crisis in Haiti. But the U.N. Security Council, the only… Continue Reading
Dear Readers, The following study just came in from the Pew Foundation. It concerns generational differences that fuel much of current social and political tension in Western Europe and the United States over globalization, nationalism and immigration, according to an… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Feb (IPS) – Releasing its annual ‘Country Reports’ on human rights practices around the world Wednesday, the U.S. State Department claimed Afghanistan and Iraq as two major breakthroughs in an otherwise bleak human rights picture. In… Continue Reading
It Pays to Get Tough with IMF By Mark Weisbrot For the second time in less than six months, the government of Argentina stood up to the International Monetary Fund — and the IMF backed down. Last week the Fund… Continue Reading
By Mike Ceaser, Globe Correspondent CARACAS – Over the two years preceding the thwarted coup in April against President Hugo Chavez, a US-funded prodemocracy group financed a range of antigovernment programs, including some that have come under scrutiny for the… Continue Reading
ILO Report a ‘Major Breakthrough’ By Stefania Bianchi BRUSSELS, Feb (IPS) – Civil society groups have hailed the much-anticipated report on globalisation as a “major breakthrough”, but stress that the developed world needs to follow up with concrete action. The… Continue Reading
by Rémy Herrera February 23, 2004 Good Governance: Conceptual Vagueness, Ideological Clearness Since the beginning of the 1990s, the major international organizations, first and foremost among them International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, have been lavishing upon their… Continue Reading
Chalabi, Garner Provide New Clues to War Analysis – By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Feb (IPS) – For those still puzzling over the whys and wherefores of Washington’s invasion of Iraq 11 months ago, major new, but curiously unnoticed, clues were… Continue Reading
Where’s The Army’s Suicide Report? By T. Trent Gegax Newsweek Waiting For Answers, Is the Army sandbagging its anticipated ‘suicide report’? Military members and their families are asking the same question: Where is the Army’s so-called suicide report? It’s the… Continue Reading
A Positive Force or Source of World’s Woes? By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Feb (IPS) – One of the most provocative interpretations of globalisation comes from former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger, who has said the process “is really another… Continue Reading
Marketing Democracy: Changing Opinion About Inequality and Politics in East Central Europe Contemporary Sociology; Washington; Jul 2002; Akos Rona-Tas; Marketing Democracy: Changing Opinion About Inequality and Politics in East Central Europe, by David S. Mason and James R. Kluegel, with… Continue Reading
FINANCE-EU: Budget Proposal Sidelines Development By Stefania Bianchi BRUSSELS, Feb 17 (IPS) Development cooperation could get downgraded in the next EU budget, civil society groups warn. The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), proposes to spend… Continue Reading
Europe Asked to Look to Its Own Poor By Stefania Bianchi BRUSSELS, Feb (IPS) – The EU needs to make a renewed commitment to fight poverty and social exclusion within Europe, says a report by a leading social rights group.… Continue Reading
Distorting the Intelligence The New York Times | Editorial The Senate Intelligence Committee made the right call last week when it decided to examine whether top administration officials had exaggerated or misused the intelligence on Iraq’s weapons programs. Whatever horrendous… Continue Reading
No pot of gold for workers Sunday, February 15, 2004 By Maria Elena Salinas For those who respect and value the advice of the elderly, here’s a piece of advice coming from elderly Mexican workers – most of them in… Continue Reading
Political Obstacles Slow Path to Goals By Julio Godoy PARIS, Feb (IPS) Lack of political will at the power centres is emerging as the major obstacle to the millennium development goals, leading experts say.. “Every year the most powerful nations… Continue Reading
By Jan-Mikael Patterson The Navajo Times WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Just as the Janet Jackson brouhaha from the Super Bowl incident is dying down, Native Americans, especially some Navajos, are outraged with the Grammy show on television Sunday evening. Outkast,… Continue Reading
Use of EU Funds Probed By Julio Godoy PARIS, Feb (IPS) – New investigations have been ordered into complaints over use of EU money by the Palestinian Authority. A team of European auditors is in Jerusalem to go through records… Continue Reading
Art Speaks Up for Immigrants By Fitzroy Nation AMSTERDAM, Feb (IPS) – It was on the cards for months, and this week it became official. Beginning mid-year and continuing over the next three years, the Dutch government will deport roughly… Continue Reading
U.N. Aide Backs Cleric on Elections; Offers No Timetable By Edward Wong The New York Times BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb — An envoy for the United Nations said he supported a powerful Shiite cleric’s call for elections to install a new… Continue Reading
