Leonardo Boff It is likely that President Bush’s election victory and Condoleezza Rice’s appointment as Secretary of State have caused great consternation to millions of people throughout the world. How is it possible that the majority of voters ratified the… Continue Reading
Maarten Messiaen The European Parliament has made a strong demand ahead of a conference on global warming next week to include aviation and shipping within the Kyoto Protocol. BRUSSELS, Nov 29 (IPS) – The European Parliament has made a strong… Continue Reading
Humberto Márquez CARACAS, Nov 26 (IPS) – U.S. politics over the next four years will be rooted in patriotism and religion, an â€?explosive combinationâ€? that will require Latin Americans to â€?arm themselves with strength, courage and bravery,â€? according to Portuguese… Continue Reading
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration announced plans to move forward with bilateral and regional trade agreements in President Bush’s second term. But the World Bank has cast doubt on the benefits to developing countries from these agreements in its Global… Continue Reading
Analysis – By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (IPS) – As U.S. families partake of the turkey, yams, and other staples of the traditional Thanksgiving feast Thursday, they are unlikely to reflect on the enduring ideological — as opposed to… Continue Reading
Samir Gea’gea’ and Jirjis al-Khouri LEBANON — November 23 — The leader of the banned Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Gea’gea’, and Jirjis al-Khouri, a member of the LF, have been held at the Ministry of Defence Detention Centre (MDDC) in… Continue Reading
Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Nov 24 (IPS) – Four years after it was launched, a global programme with a drab title – the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – is becoming a rallying cry for a broad spectrum of activists from across… Continue Reading
WEB EXCLUSIVE By Nicki Gostin Newsweek Updated: 2:08 p.m. ET Nov. 24, 2004 Nov. 24 – Brazilian-born photographer Sebastião Salgado has not always been taking photos: he was trained as an economist. It was not until he was based in… Continue Reading
Moyiga Nduru JOHANNESBURG, Nov (IPS) – A routine visit to a village in the northern South African province of Limpopo brought Stephen McFarlane face-to-face with the reality of a child-headed family. But, the members of this household were not, as… Continue Reading
By Alan Berlow In nominating Alberto Gonzales to be the next attorney general, President Bush has selected a man with a long record of giving him the kind of legal advice he wants. Unfortunately, that advice has not always been… Continue Reading
Samuele Gabbio PADUA, Italy, Nov 22 (IPS) – Civil society groups preparing for the World Social Forum in January are building up a campaign to make the United Nations an instrument for change that empowers people. Reform of the UN… Continue Reading
By: Eva Golinger – VenezuelaFOIA.info On April 12, 2002, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer stated: “Let me share with you the administration’s thoughts about what’s taking place in Venezuela. It remains a somewhat fluid situation. But yesterday’s events in Venezuela… Continue Reading
Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Nov 19 (IPS) – Alarmed by the pace at which consumer-driven lifestyles are destroying the planet’s resources, a leading environmental body has set its sights on creating a green-friendly haven replete with houses, restaurants, shops and hotels.… Continue Reading
By Stan Crock in Washington, with Babak Pirouz in Tehran and Neal Sandler in Jerusalem Business Week Updated: 3:00 a.m. ET Nov. 19, 2004 For weeks the rhetoric mounted as diplomats shuttled between Tehran and Vienna, seeking a solution to… Continue Reading
Dahr Jamail BAGHDAD, Nov 18 (IPS) – Journalists are increasingly being detained and threatened by the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq. Media have been stopped particularly from covering recent horrific events in Fallujah. The “100 Orders” penned by former U.S.… Continue Reading
By: Gregory Wilpert In a recent letter sent to President Chavez, a group of 70 mostly conservative world famous politicians and intellectuals asked the president to intervene in the case against four leaders of the oppositional and U.S.-government funded NGO… Continue Reading
We would like to inform the ones participating to the International Seminar “Reclaim Our UN” next 19-20 November the following useful information: The offices in Perugia are closed from 17th to 22nd November because all the staff is moving to… Continue Reading
Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (IPS) – Amnesty International (AI) has urged the U.S. government to conduct an open investigation into the apparent killing of a wounded prisoner in Iraq by a U.S. soldier, and to make the probe’s findings… Continue Reading
Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Nov 16 (IPS) – In a major review of U.S. relations with Asia, two high-profile task forces are urging the Bush administration to pay significantly more attention to the region and adopt a less unilateralist posture in… Continue Reading
By Emily Wax The Washington Post Updated: 8:54 a.m. ET Nov. 16, 2004 NEW AL-JEER SUREAF, Sudan – The Bush administration has called it genocide. Other governments have labeled it ethnic cleansing and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. There have… Continue Reading
