By Stephanie Nieuwoudt CAPE TOWN, Feb 27 (IPS) – According to a recent article in the Harvard Business Review, the average annual return on investment in Africa is between 65 and 70 percent higher than in any other country, including… Continue Reading
Anna Nemtsova – NEWSWEEK In establishing the Kremlin’s control, we lost our freedom of the press. Now the challenge is to expand democracy. From the magazine issue dated Mar 2, 2009 In February a Moscow think tank run by Igor… Continue Reading
By William Fisher NEW YORK, Feb 26 (IPS) – In a stunning reversal, Britain’s government admitted Wednesday that it participated in the ‘extraordinary rendition’ to Afghanistan of two terror suspects captured in Iraq. British Defence Secretary John Hutton told Britain’s… Continue Reading
By Tim Padgett – TIME Washington started off on the wrong foot with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez shortly after he took office in 1999. Embarking on his first international tour as head of state, Chávez took a call from a… Continue Reading
By William Fisher NEW YORK, Feb 25 (IPS) – While human rights and legal advocacy groups applauded President Barack Obama’s decision to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year, many immediately raised another thorny question: “What about… Continue Reading
by Marcus Stern, ProPublica February 25, 2009. Paramilitary agents for the CIA’s super-secret Special Activities Division, or SAD, perform raids, ambushes, abductions and other difficult chores overseas, including infiltrating countries to “light up” targets from the ground for air-to-ground missile… Continue Reading
By William Fisher NEW YORK, Feb 24 (IPS) – A leading human rights organisation charges that contrary to recent U.S. government reports that found prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba being treated humanely, they are in fact “deteriorating at a rapid… Continue Reading
By Eyal Press This article appeared in the March 9, 2009 edition of The Nation. In 1962, when David Grossman was an 8-year-old schoolboy in Jerusalem, his father handed him a Hebrew translation of Sholem Aleichem’s Adventures of Mottel, the… Continue Reading
Mel Frykberg interviews Hamas Foreign Minister AHMED YOUSEF RAMALLAH, Feb 23 (IPS) – At the eleventh hour, just as a permanent ceasefire painfully mediated by the Egyptians after weeks of intensive shuttle diplomacy was about to take effect, Israel suddenly… Continue Reading
Reprieve After a long battle with the US authorities, Reprieve is pleased to announce that Binyam Mohamed has been released from Guantánamo Bay and will today arrive in Britain. He will be met by a doctor and his lawyers, Clive… Continue Reading
By Stephen Leahy CHICAGO, U.S., Feb 20 (IPS) – Earth’s two ice-covered polar oceans may be the most inhospitable places on the planet, but more than 12,000 species of animals have been found there, according to new research released at… Continue Reading
Raina Kelley -Newsweek Web Exclusive Seven lies we tell ourselves about social networking. Everybody loves to complain about Facebook. But I’ve been wading through all the nonstop commentary about the over the last few weeks and I’ve made a startling… Continue Reading
By Robert Dreyfuss – The Nation This article appeared in the March 9, 2009 edition of The Nation. For the first time in six years, it’s possible to see the light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq. Despite… Continue Reading
By Joyce Mulama NAIROBI, Feb (IPS) – Worldwide demand for food is expected to grow steadily over the next 40 years, but 25 percent of the world’s food production may be lost to ‘environmental breakdowns’ by 2050 unless urgent action… Continue Reading
by Olga Pierce ProPublica – February 17, 2009 A few weeks ago, we cast a skeptical eye on the job creation estimates [1] the Obama administration had attached to the stimulus bill. Well, the White House has just released another… Continue Reading
Stanley Kwenda interviews TENDAI BITI, Zimbabwe’s finance minister HARARE, Feb 18 (IPS) – Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe last week presided over the formation of a new unity government. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) secretary general Tendai Biti was appointed to… Continue Reading
Analysis by Beena Sarwar KARACHI, Feb 17 (IPS) – Since being elected to office five months ago, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has often declared that Pakistan’s single biggest challenge stems from ‘religious’ militants. These include the Taliban, the international… Continue Reading
Analysis by Beena Sarwar KARACHI, Feb 17 (IPS) – Since being elected to office five months ago, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has often declared that Pakistan’s single biggest challenge stems from ‘religious’ militants. These include the Taliban, the international… Continue Reading
By Jeremy Brecher The Nation – February 16, 2009 At the first Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, held in Pittsburgh a year ago, advocates of green energy bemoaned their inability to get a modest renewable-energy tax credit through Congress over… Continue Reading
By Adam Easton BBC News, Warsaw Twenty years have passed since the end of communism in Poland and there are signs that the institution that led the struggle against the regime, the Catholic Church, is under threat in the modern… Continue Reading
