By Matthew Berger LONDON, Jun 30 (IPS) – Governments and interest groups around the world followed the U.S. House of Representatives’ vote Friday on the first U.S. policy to limit the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. They were especially interested in… Continue Reading
By HELENE COOPER and MARC LACEY – The New York Times June 30, 2009 – WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday strongly condemned the ouster of Honduras’s president as an illegal coup that set a “terrible precedent†for the region,… Continue Reading
By Joaquin Roy (*) BRASILIA, Jun (IPS) It is said that a French politician, asked whether Brazil had a good future, answered with scorn and knowing irony, “Brazil has always had, still has, and will always have a magnificent future.”… Continue Reading
News Analysis by The New York Times and The Washington Post Rare Hemisphere Unity in Assailing Honduran Coup By SIMON ROMERO – The New York Times BOGOTÃ, Colombia — With their condemnation on Sunday of the coup ousting President Manuel… Continue Reading
Por Fabiana Frayssinet RÃO DE JANEIRO, jun (IPS) – Con más de 90 por ciento de su nueva flota automovilÃstica con motores impulsados indistintamente a gasolina o biodisel, el gobierno de Brasil emprende ahora una nueva carrera tecnológica. Se trata… Continue Reading
By Gareth Porter EXCLUSIVE-PART 5* WASHINGTON, Jun 26 (IPS) – In early November 1998, Louis Freeh sent an FBI team off to observe Saudi secret police officials interviewing eight Shi’a detainees from behind a one-way mirror at the Riyadh detention… Continue Reading
By Joseph E. Stiglitz This article appeared in the July 13, 2009 edition of The Nation. This is not only the worst global economic downturn of the post-World War II era; it is the first serious global downturn of the… Continue Reading
By Gareth Porter* EXCLUSIVE-PART 3 WASHINGTON, Jun 24 (IPS) – In March 1997, FBI Director Louis Freeh got what he calls in his memoirs “the first truly big break in the case”: the arrest in Canada of one of the… Continue Reading
By Greg Grandin* This article originally appeared on TomDispatch. June 23, 2009. The empire ends with a pullout. Not, as many supposed a few years ago, from Iraq. There, as well as in Afghanistan, we are mulishly staying the course,… Continue Reading
Osvaldo León * On June 13, just after midnight, the United States produced the so-called “analog blackout,†by which all of the nation’s television stations stopped using the analog signal and gave way to exclusively digital transmission. Presenting this change… Continue Reading
By Gareth Porter EXCLUSIVE-PART 2 (*) WASHINGTON, Jun 23 (IPS) – In the last week of October 1996, the Saudi secret police, the Mabahith, gave David Williams, the FBI’s assistant special agent in charge of counter-terrorism issues, what they said… Continue Reading
John Boonstra – in UN Dispatch June 22, 2009. Excuse me if I find some irony in Ethiopia declining the Somali government’s request to send troops, when all indicators point to the likelihood that Ethiopia already sent some of its… Continue Reading
By Gareth Porter* EXCLUSIVE-PART1 WASHINGTON, Jun 22 (IPS) – On Jun. 25, 1996, a massive truck bomb exploded at a building in the Khobar Towers complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, which housed U.S. Air Force personnel, killing 19 U.S. airmen… Continue Reading
Josep Xercavins i Valls * “The Conference on the crisis: a key moment for the future of the UN†and/or “The silence of the powerful media about what is happening at the UN†In a few days the “UN Conference… Continue Reading
Analysis by Zoltán Dujisin SEOUL, Jun 18 (IPS) – Ever since being elected as President in 2008, conservative Lee-Myung-bak has pursued a hard-line policy towards North Korea, with the country’s left also blaming him for recent tensions in the peninsula.… Continue Reading
Josep Xercavins i Valls * “La Conferencia sobre la crisis: un momento clave para el futuro de la ONU†y/o “Los medios poderosos de comunicación callan acerca de lo que sucede en la ONU†Estamos a unos muy pocos dÃas… Continue Reading
By Katie Mattern WASHINGTON, Jun (IPS) – Gaza, South Africa and Thailand are among the world’s worst places to be a refugee, according to the latest annual World Refugee Survey released here Wednesday by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and… Continue Reading
By Maurice Isserman This article appeared in the June 29, 2009 edition of The Nation. On October 9, 1967, a Bolivian army communiqué from La Paz announced that Ernesto “Che” Guevara, the Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary comandante turned itinerant guerrilla, had… Continue Reading
By Jacques Diouf (*) ROME, Jun (IPS) The World Grain Forum that took place in Saint Petersburg June 6-7 is one in a series of high-level meetings devoted to food and agriculture this year. Such meetings -including the G8 agriculture… Continue Reading
ANSA Interview in leading daily sparks Berlusconi’s reaction (ANSA) – Rome, June 17 – Premier Silvio Berlusconi blasted as ”trash” an interview published by leading Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Thursday which alleged that women were paid to attend… Continue Reading
