By Rowena McNaughton (*) LONDON, Aug (IPS) Amid Millennium Development Goal (MDG) weariness, there is a call to up the ante. An analysis of South African newspapers and television channels would suggest that coverage of the country is fated to… Continue Reading
by Jeffrey Frank – The New Yorker I was glad to be offered the apology—and about time, too—but I was far from ready to accept it. Not that it was a bad apology, but it never quite rose to the… Continue Reading
Jeremy Scahill | The Nation Four months before WikiLeaks rocketed to international notoriety, the Robin Hoods of the Internet quietly published a confidential CIA document labeled “NOFORN” (for “no foreign nationals”)—meaning that it should not be shared even with US… Continue Reading
By Jose Mujica (*) MONTEVIDEO, Aug (IPS) Humanity has undergone a sort of sorcerer’s apprenticeship. We have set in motion a civilisation that has managed to incessantly improve the living conditions for large numbers of people, though perhaps in haste.… Continue Reading
By IDN Middle East Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – A new report has warned that companies with operations and suppliers in Israel, or offshore projects in disputed waters in the region, face the risk of “complicity in human rights violations… Continue Reading
By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – In the first ever U.N.-mandated self-assessment of the United States’ human rights record, the Barack Obama administration has reaffirmed its commitment to closing the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay and… Continue Reading
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – Rightwing Israeli groups financially supported by Jewish and fundamentalist Christian groups from abroad are on a campaign to undermine free thought in Israeli universities. Collaterally, a move… Continue Reading
By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BERLIN (IDN) – Practitioners of realpolitik would not claim they are poets, very much in the way that they do dismiss they are utopians. As former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, neither a poet nor utopian,… Continue Reading
By Supachai Panitchpakdi (*) GENEVA, Ago (IPS) The past decade was an optimistic period for developing countries and their development partners. Economic growth rates achieved high levels in many regions -exceeding 5% in sub-Saharan Africa, for example- and after a… Continue Reading
Greg Mitchell | The Nation It’s often said these days that Sarah Palin is a “media creation.” That is, the media promote and elevate her as one of America’s most popular and influential leaders, even though her approval ratings remain… Continue Reading
By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BANGKOK (IDN) – A new town of about 150,000 people is expected to sprout every day in the next 20 years in the Asia-Pacific region, increasing the urban population from 1.6 billion to 2.7 billion… Continue Reading
By Beatrice Paez MONTREAL, Canada, Aug 23, 2010 (IPS) – Six hundred delegates from more than 80 countries flocked to Montreal Aug. 20-23 for the CIVICUS World Assembly in search of innovative ways to approach global challenges like poverty and… Continue Reading
By Peter Richards BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Aug 23, 2010 (IPS) – Roosevelt King, the secretary general of the Barbados Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (BANCO), believes that Caribbean governments have dropped the ball when it comes to their commitment to support the… Continue Reading
By Sergey Fedorov IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis MOSCOW (IDN) – As Iran began fuelling its first nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr, remarks by the Russian state nuclear energy company Rosatom’s chief Sergei Kiriyenko that it was a “big… Continue Reading
by Babak Dehghanpisheh – Newsweek The departure of the last “combat troops†from Iraq is hardly the end of American combat there. August 19, 2010 . By now, you’ve probably heard that the last “combat†unit is leaving Iraq. TV… Continue Reading
By Dahr Jamail BILOXI, Mississippi, Aug 20, 2010 (IPS) – The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of its fishing areas. The problem is that commercial shrimpers refuse to trawl because they fear the toxicity of the waters and… Continue Reading
By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 19, 2010 (IPS) – A government programme designed to prosecute serious criminals is instead deporting people who received traffic tickets and committed other minor offences, according to immigration rights advocacy groups.
By Eleonore Meyer IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Nearly 160 million kids aged between five and fourteen are trapped in child labour world wide. They are everywhere but invisible, toiling as domestic servants in homes, labouring behind the walls of… Continue Reading
By Immanuel Wallerstein August 18, 2010 . Latin America has been the success story of the world left in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This is true in two senses. The first and most widely-noticed way is that… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava IPS interviews Brazilian feminist ROSE MARIE MURARO RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 17, 2010 (IPS) – It is necessary to move from a “masculine” economy based on competition and a win-lose mentality to a “feminine” win-win economy based… Continue Reading
