By DarÃo Montero MONTEVIDEO, Nov 30 (IPS) – Left-wing candidate José Mujica was elected president of Uruguay with nearly 52 percent of the vote Sunday, seven to eight percentage points ahead of his rival, the right-wing Luis Alberto Lacalle, according… Continue Reading
BY JEROME MWANDA – IDN NAIROBI (IDN-InDepthNews Service)- Developing nations are faced with huge economic and financial problems and need funds and technical cooperation from Europe and the United States. But this is only one aspect of reality. They have… Continue Reading
Catherine Ashton (*) BRUSSELS, Nov (IPS) Faced with the first truly global economic crisis in the era of globalisation, developed countries have been focused on mitigating the effects on our own economies. One could be excused for thinking that in… Continue Reading
BY JULIO GODOY – IDN BERLIN (IDN-InDepthNews Service) – On Nov 29, the Honduran people are called upon to go to the polls to elect a new president and a new parliament. So far, so good. Until the mid 1980s,… Continue Reading
By Gunnar Stalsett (*) OSLO, Nov (IPS) Peace of the heart and mind and peace of society are intrinsically linked. Peace and justice are inseparable as are truth and reconciliation. Peace is for the hungry to be fed, the poor… Continue Reading
BY RAMESH JAURA-IDN BERLIN (IDN-InDepthNews Service) – Countries in the extensive Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are becoming increasingly important for the 30-nation OECD as the world economic crisis cuts growth and sends inward investment reeling.
BY FAREED MAHDY* – IDN ISTANBUL (InDepthNews Service-IDN) – Turkish diplomacy had to dive into the Western-Iranian troubled waters, in view of Western powers’ dissatisfaction with a new Tehran proposal on ways how to implement its latest draft agreement with… Continue Reading
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes (*) HAVANA, Nov (IPS) A little over a year ago the world was swept by surprise when it learned that Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. We had been witness to a change… Continue Reading
Por Matthew Berger WASHINGTON, 24 nov (IPS) – La demanda de agua en el planeta será 40 por ciento mayor a la oferta para 2030, por lo cual se debe adoptar cuanto antes un enfoque equilibrado que permita una administración… Continue Reading
Libertad Digital Nota del editor de Other News: Como todos saben, no habrá acuerdo o tratado en Copenhague. Sin embargo, esto es lo que la campaña de la derecha está haciendo: Asi se entiende por qué Obama se está deslizando… Continue Reading
Libertad Digital Other News Editor’s Note: As everybody knows, there will be no agreement or treaty in Copenhagen. Yet, this is what the right wing campaign is doing: look at it, to understand why Obama is slipping below 50% of… Continue Reading
By Walden Bello (*) MANILA, Nov (IPS) The recent collapse of the global economy, caused by among other things the lack of regulation of financial markets, has further eroded the credibility of neoliberalism. And yet it continues to exercise a… Continue Reading
Deepak Chopra * Monday, November 23, 2009. Last fall it seemed as if Sarah Palin would light a fuse and cause a social explosion. Behind her beauty-pageant smile lurked the shadow, the dark side of human nature. Her tactic of… Continue Reading
By Steve Watson Other News Editor’s Note: When United States of America loses a very real war on the battlefield, as in Vietnam, to save the honor of the country, Chuck Norris and Sylvester Stallone win wars in the imagination… Continue Reading
BY BAHER KAMAL* MADRID (IDN-InDepthNews Service) – “La matematica non e un’ opinione,” Italians say. And they are right: mathematics is not an opinion. And this is what mathematics says: – Industrialised countries handed over US$ 18 trillion in one… Continue Reading
By Maurice Strong (*) BEIJING, (IPS) The current economic and climate change crises are both rooted in the unsustainable nature of the existing economic system. The rapid and unexpected economic meltdown, which began in the United States and quickly spread… Continue Reading
Monika Kalra Varma Our 2008 RFK Human Rights Laureate, Aminatou Haidar, began a hunger strike on November 16th after being forcibly removed from her homeland of Western Sahara. And we need your help to support an investigation of her removal.
By Stephen Leahy MÉRIDA, Mexico, Nov (IPS) – At least half the planet must be protected if humanity is to survive the next century, declared conservationists at the conclusion of 9th World Wilderness Congress on Friday, Nov. 13. “That is… Continue Reading
By Leonardo Padura Fuentes (*) HAVANA, Nov (IPS) If a person’s past is the accumulation of the life experiences that made him who he is, the future embodies the dreams and the expectations of what this person wants to be… Continue Reading
By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK Innovation is as American as baseball and apple pie. But some traditions can’t be trademarked. From the magazine issue dated Nov 23, 2009 By most measures, America remains the world leader in technological achievement. Consider… Continue Reading
