By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON D.C. (IDN) – Finance Ministers and Central Bankers of the Group of 20 (G20) — the world’s top economic performers — who met on February 18-19 in Paris, took a low-keyed approach to a… Continue Reading
Analysis by Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Feb 25, 2011 (IPS) – In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage U.S. intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and… Continue Reading
By Stefano Colombo IDN-InDepth NewsReport ROME (IDN) – Indigenous peoples comprise one-third of the world’s one billion extreme poor in rural areas. They are among the most vulnerable and marginalized of any group. Spread over 70 countries and representing diverse… Continue Reading
By Andrea Lunt UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25, 2011 (IPS) – 1325. It’s a combination of digits that might not mean much to the majority of the world’s population, but these four numbers are a crucial tool in the global struggle… Continue Reading
By Kalinga Seneviratne IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis SINGAPORE (IDN) – Two issues that have been attracting headlines recently, one in Indonesia and another in the Philippines, perhaps explain why Asian youth are not all that excited about the youth uprisings and their… Continue Reading
By Cléo Fatoorehchi UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24, 2011 (IPS) – While “fundamentalism” has become something of a buzzword in the past few years, particularly in the West in connection with Islam, it in fact exists in every region and religion,… Continue Reading
By Cléo Fatoorehchi IPS interviews JOAN WINSHIP of the International Association of Women Judges UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (IPS) – The two-week Commission on the Status of Women at United Nations headquarters draws together a wide array of civil society… Continue Reading
By Abdulsattar Hatitah – Asharq Al-Awsat* Cairo – Libyan tribes played an important role in the country’s fight against Ottoman, and later Italian, colonialism, with many Libyan tribal members sacrificing their lives in this war. It is believed that there… Continue Reading
Abdeslam Baraka Facebook is not a game. It is a means of communication that transcends borders, but does not supplant national or international legality concerning civil liberties and rights of association and expression. Choosing such means to spread one’s message,… Continue Reading
By José Graziano da Silva and Ekaterina Krivonos (*) SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Feb (IPS) The world is living through another major upswing in food prices. World food prices surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive… Continue Reading
By Ray Acheson (*) NEW YORK, Feb (IPS) On 5 February, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) entered into force. New START is an agreement between Russia and the United States that sets 1550 as the limit of how… Continue Reading
By Fareed Mahdy* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint ISTANBUL (IDN) – The recipe for pushing Egyptians and Arabs toward extremism is simple and has been tasted for decades. Its ingredients are easy to prepare and digest; they are already pre-cooked and the kitchens… Continue Reading
By Hilaire Avril PARIS, Feb 18, 2011 (IPS) – Bad governance and the persistence of the tax avoidance industry allow billions of dollars of profit to be siphoned out of Africa, untaxed, every year.
Juan Cole | The Nation The Arab world’s presidents for life and absolute monarchs are quaking in the aftermath of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. Arab politics had been stuck in a vast logjam for the past thirty years, from… Continue Reading
By Jutta Wolf IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – Tunisia and Egypt should serve as a wake-up call to the Group of 20 (G20) industrial and emerging economies to put into practice long overdue decisions to root out corruption in public… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 17, 2011 (IPS) – Two decades ago, Japan was the main threat to U.S. global economic dominance, but this challenge waned before the advent of the 21st century. Now China and India are… Continue Reading
Reprieve* US insists that they can detain an innocent 14 year old forever without charges or a trial in Bagram Air Force Base, despite not even knowing how old he is. Hamidullah is a young Pakistani boy – only 14… Continue Reading
By Thierry Jeantet* The long crisis in the economic and financial system, which seemed to become a permanent feature in a large part of the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall, has been compounded by a series of… Continue Reading
By Ernest Corea* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON D.C. (IDN) – Twenty-one years to the day on which Nelson Mandela emerged from the darkness of 27 years in a South African prison, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak packed his bags and departed with his… Continue Reading
By Ignacio Ramonet (*) PARIS, Feb (IPS) He is 93 years old. His name is Stephane Hessel, and the story of his life reads like a fantastical novel. In a way it was even before his birth. Some of you… Continue Reading
