By Mario Osava BELÉM, Brazil, Jan 30 (IPS) – “True socialism is feminist,” and is already being built, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, standing next to three other South American presidents, all of them men, at a dialogue that took… Continue Reading
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL – The New York Times January 30, 2009 – CHILIBRE, Panama — The land where Marta Ortega de Wing raised hundreds of pigs until 10 years ago is being overtaken by galloping jungle — palms, lizards and… Continue Reading
Mario Osava/IPS-TerraViva Belém do Pará- A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message “SOS Amazon” to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the… Continue Reading
Nick Summers – Newsweek Web Exclusive According to author Jeff Jarvis, taking a page out of the company’s playbook could put the economy back on track “Google is an avalanche and it has only just begun to tumble down the… Continue Reading
By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda GENEVA, Jan 28 (IPS) – The Davos delegate seems short of faith this year about anyone’s ability to save the world from the financial tsunami that the bosses have unleashed. And with colleagues such as Ramalinga… Continue Reading
By Ari Berman – The Nation 01/27/2009. Republicans, having driven the economy into a ditch during the last eight years, are now opposing the one piece of legislation–an economic stimulus–that might turn things around. House Republican leaders are telling their… Continue Reading
Alejandro Kirk interviews Boaventura de Sousa Santos * BELEM, Brazil, Jan 26 (IPS) – Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos argues that community radio and alternative media are the only platforms that can compete with corporate media. In an interview… Continue Reading
Correspondent’s Diary – From Economist.com Celebrating twenty years since communism’s fall Monday Jan 27th 2009. NOW that Russia has turned the heating back on, central Europe can start planning its celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of communism.… Continue Reading
Anna Quindlen The welfare of women should be a key component of American foreign policy. And we’ve got the woman to make that happen. NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Feb 2, 2009 As Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton… Continue Reading
Alejandro Kirk interviews Walden Bello* BELEM, Brazil, Jan 26 (IPS) – The World Social Forum meeting this week in this city in Brazil’s Amazon jungle region has an urgent and crucial task: coming up with alternative solutions for the global… Continue Reading
By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Jan 23 (IPS) – Days before families across China sit down for the Chinese New Year’s feast, the country’s leaders have moved to restore public confidence in the safety of their repast. A Chinese court has… Continue Reading
John E. Schwarz And Lew Daly The new president and the link between economics and freedom. America is not about common blood, or race, or ethnic background or religion. America is about an idea, and that idea is freedom. Of… Continue Reading
Walden Bello Not surprisingly, the swift unraveling of the global economy combined with the ascent to the U.S. presidency of an African-American liberal has left millions anticipating that the world is on the threshold of a new era. Some of… Continue Reading
Analysis by Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jan (IPS) – U.S. and international human rights groups Wednesday praised President Barack Obama’s directive to immediately suspend the work of military commissions established by his predecessor, George W. Bush, to prosecute suspected terrorists at… Continue Reading
By John Nichols – The Nation 01/21/2009 . Apparently Barack Obama took his oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” a tad more seriously than did his predecessor. Lawyers for the United States government —… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 21 (IPS) – A World Social Forum (WSF) revitalised by a global crisis that has awakened new interest in the proposition that “another world is possible” – now perceived as either less utopian… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jan 20 (IPS) – Perhaps never in human history have the hopes of so many people for positive change in international relations rested on one person as they do on Barack Obama, who is to be… Continue Reading
Rod Nordland – Newsweek Web Exclusive In Zeitoun, Gaza, 29 members of one family lost their lives. Why? Palestinian farmer Rafiq Samouni, 39, sat on the rubble of his house Monday, eating a sour orange. “We don’t have any homes,… Continue Reading
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Jan 19 (IPS) – Europe now evidently understands what the U.S. has long understood – if you want to move Israelis on peace, you need to make them feel secure. There they… Continue Reading
From The Economist print edition George Bush has left a dismal legacy, but Barack Obama can do much to repair the damage Jan 15th 2009 – SHORTLY after midday on January 20th, Barack Obama will sit for the first time… Continue Reading
