By David Cronin BRUSSELS, Aug 31 (IPS) – Poverty in the Palestinian territories has reached “unprecedented levels” because they have been held under an “economic siege” for almost seven years, a United Nations body has found. During 2006 the number… Continue Reading
GLOBE EDITORIAL August 31, 2007 PRO-DEMOCRACY activists, students, Buddhist monks, and citizens who are simply fed up with the ruling military junta in Burma have been staging impromptu protests since Aug. 19, when the cancellation of fuel subsidies sent prices… Continue Reading
By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna NEW DELHI, Aug 30 (IPS) – Though adolescents are said to be at the centre of the AIDS epidemic and India has the largest number of infections in Asia, this conservative country continues to shy away… Continue Reading
Editorial THE NEW YORK TIMES The economic party is winding down and most working Americans never even got near the punch bowl. The Census Bureau reported yesterday that median household income rose 0.7 percent last year — it’s second annual… Continue Reading
Analysis by Trita Parsi* WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (IPS) – The George W. Bush administration has seemingly taken advantage of the Congressional recess to escalate tensions with Iran. Earlier in August, the State Department revealed plans to designate the Iranian Revolutionary… Continue Reading
By BRIAN CONCANNON This week the world officially commemorated one of the pivotal events of modern history with deafening silence. On August 23, 1791, a group of slaves in Haiti led by a man named Boukman ignited a revolt that… Continue Reading
By Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (IPS) – Israeli officials warned the George W. Bush administration that an invasion of Iraq would be destabilising to the region and urged the United States to instead target Iran as the primary enemy,… Continue Reading
By Stefania Milan PADUA, Italy, Aug 27 (IPS) – Mid-August, a normal week in Lampedusa, a small Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. In all, 439 illegal migrants, including a 15-day old baby, arrived from North Africa in old motorboats.… Continue Reading
by NATALIE OBIKO PEARSON and IAN JAMES Laid-off Brazilian factory workers have their jobs back, Nicaraguan farmers are getting low-interest loans and Bolivian mayors can afford new health clinics, all thanks to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Bolstered by windfall oil… Continue Reading
Analysis by Lester R. Brown* WASHINGTON, Aug 24 (IPS) – In urban settings, the one-time use of water to disperse human and industrial wastes is becoming an outmoded practice, made obsolete by new technologies and water shortages. Water enters a… Continue Reading
By NORMAN SOLOMON The USA’s military spending is now close to $2 billion a day. This fall, the country will begin its seventh year of continuous war, with no end in sight. On the horizon is the very real threat… Continue Reading
By Danna Harman Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor “Is this really how to save Africa?” asks Tanzanian columnist Ayub Rioba, a day after Bill Clinton has left Africa. “We appreciate generous and humane contributions from people like Bill Clinton,”… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Aug (IPS) – Opening a new campaign to sustain his “surge” strategy in Iraq, President George W. Bush Wednesday compared Washington’s ongoing struggle there to both World War II and the Vietnam War where, he said,… Continue Reading
Analysis by Peter Hirschberg JERUSALEM, Aug 22 (IPS) – Israeli officials have used almost every public platform over the last week to declare that Israel has no war-like intentions toward Syria. Officials in Damascus have made similar soothing proclamations, insisting… Continue Reading
NEPAL: Traffickers exploit increased mobility of underage girls ——————————————————————————– BANKE, 22 August 2007 (IRIN) – Sixteen-year-old Sushma does not want to reveal her true identity for fear that the traffickers who sold her into the notorious brothel area of Kamathipura… Continue Reading
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Aug 21 (IPS) – Ever since the takeover of Gaza two months ago by Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, Washington and its allies have steadfastly supported the rival Fatah movement headed by Palestinian… Continue Reading
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS* Jose Padilla’s conviction on terrorism charges on August 16 was a victory, not for justice, but for the US Justice (sic) Department’s theory, the incompetent Padilla Jury delivered a deadly blow to the rule of law… Continue Reading
By ANTHONY DiMAGGIO * It’s no coincidence that the American corporate media is the wealthiest communication systems in the world, yet also one of the worst in terms of educating its citizens. Extraordinary riches require extraordinary efforts to divert public… Continue Reading
By Zoltán Dujisin BUDAPEST, Aug 15 (IPS) – The European Union has agreed on a document to reform itself institutionally, but Brussels is beginning to understand it will have to get used to tough opposition from some of its Eastern… Continue Reading
by Jonathan Cook August 16, 2007 Znet This week marks a year since the end of hostilities now officially called the Second Lebanon war by Israelis. A month of fighting — mostly Israeli aerial bombardment of Lebanon, and rocket attacks… Continue Reading
