By Vandana Shiva (*) NEW DELHI, Aug (IPS) The privatisation of the earth’s resources is a recipe for famine and desertification, violence against women, hunger, and, as happens in India, the suicide of farmers. The state of natural resources is… Continue Reading
IRIN NAIROBI, 28 August 2009 (IRIN) – Countries tackling food insecurity and climate change adaptation can greatly benefit from agroforestry – integrating fleshy plants and trees into their farming systems, environmental specialists say. Sub-Saharan Africa has a history of food… Continue Reading
By Zoltán Dujisin PAMIR MOUNTAINS, Tajikistan, Aug 27 (IPS) – The collapse of the Soviet Union has brought misery to Tajikistan’s remote eastern half. People are being driven once again to live as nomads. Tajikistan is a former Soviet republic… Continue Reading
Analysis by Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Aug 26 (IPS) – Cuba’s communist government is being challenged to move toward a more participative and inclusive socialist system, one that offers real economic well-being and responds to the social and political demands that… Continue Reading
By Mercedes Sayagues SAO TOME, Aug 24 (IPS) – If you live in São Tomé, a good investment in your health is to plant a po-sabom tree (Dracaena aroborea) in your backyard. Leave space: it can grow up to 20… Continue Reading
Analysis by Bill Berkowitz* OAKLAND, California, Aug 22 (IPS) – Every year during August recess, many members of the U.S. Congress go back to their districts and hold town hall meetings to get a sense of what their constituents are… Continue Reading
By Marwaan Macan-Markar IPS interviews Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus. BANGKOK, Aug 20 (IPS) – Having shaken up the conventions of banking by arguing that credit is a fundamental right to help the poor in his native Bangladesh get loans… Continue Reading
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes (*) HAVANA, Aug (IPS) Cubans are used to living with crises, limits, shortages, emergency plans, “special” -and less “special”- periods. That may be why for a number of months many Cubans have been watching with detachment… Continue Reading
By Ignacio Ramonet (*) PARIS, Aug (IPS) The world’s conservative groups and their usual propagandists [i] received the news of the June 28 coup in Honduras with immense pleasure[ii]. Although they made critical noises about the coup itself, they swallowed… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio (*) ROME, Aug (IPS) The Washington Consensus, the neo-liberal economic prescription presumed to be universally and permanently valid, was broadsided by the current world recession together with other “one size fits all” formulas. The name “Washington Consensus”… Continue Reading
By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK If it’s not a crisis, we can’t fix it. From the magazine issue dated Aug 31, 2009 In the past few weeks, we’ve seen the twin personalities of the U.S. government come out: one is… Continue Reading
PlusNews JOHANNESBURG, 11 August 2009 (PlusNews) – HIV is the main cause of death among pregnant women in Johannesburg, South Africa’s most populous city, according to a five-year study of maternal mortality at one of the city’s largest public hospitals.
By Catherine Makino IPS interviews ANN WRIGHT, retired U.S. army colonel TOKYO, Aug 13 (IPS) – Ann Wright is a former U.S. diplomat who served in the military for 29 years. She was a deputy ambassador in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone,… Continue Reading
Analysis by Hilmi Toros ISTANBUL, Aug 12 (IPS) – Once the worst of enemies, involved in 12 wars in three centuries, Turkey and Russia have suddenly become the best of friends, forging strong bonds that could be a counterpoint to… Continue Reading
By Gordon Brown The appalling but inevitable outcome of Aung San Suu Kyi’s sham trial is final proof that the military regime in Burma is determined to continue defying the world.
By Elisabetta Zamparutti (*) ROME, Aug (IPS) Movement towards the global abolition of the death penalty and the reduction in the number of executions over the last decade were confirmed in the last report of Hands Off Cain. Moreover, in… Continue Reading
Jennifer Moore Since Honduran coup leaders ousted President Manuel Zelaya on June 28th at least six people have been killed and serious human rights violations against people opposing the de facto regime have been documented. (1) Vice President Alfredo López… Continue Reading
By Eva Bartlett GAZA CITY, Aug 10 (IPS) – On a Saturday morning in Gaza city, the Artificial Limb and Polio Centre (ALPC) is filled with people waiting to see the director, Dr. Hazem Al-Shawwa. Following consultation with him and… Continue Reading
From The Economist print edition Iraqi commanders say they can run the show on their own. Really? Aug 6th 2009 | BAGHDAD . AMERICAN commanders in Baghdad have been here before. In 2004, a year after the invasion that toppled… Continue Reading
By Mario Soares (*) LISBON, Aug (IPS) A few months were enough for Obama to peacefully revolutionise the United States and the world. He radically changed the policies of Washington, domestic and international, with visible consequences at the global level… Continue Reading
