By Alemayehu G. Mariam* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint SAN BERNARDINO, USA (IDN) – For much of the six decades of independence, much of Africa has been under the thumbs and boots of ruthless military and civilian thugs palming themselves off as leaders… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson (*) SAINT AUGUSTINE, May (IPS) The Kyoto Protocol expires at the end of 2012. Its global focus on CO2 emissions and trading schemes based in London and other financial centres has grown suspect. The 2007-2008 Wall Street… Continue Reading
By Robbie Corey-Boulet NAIROBI, May 2011 (IPS) – As the International Criminal Court gears up to elect six judges and a new prosecutor, observers are warning that political rather than merit-based considerations could govern the evaluation of candidates. The nomination… Continue Reading
By Patrick Bond -ZSpace Page A renewed wave of development babble began flowing soon after the February launch of the World Bank’s ten-year Strategy document, “Africa‘s Future and the World Bank‘s Support to It”. Within three months, a mini-tsunami of… Continue Reading
By Simba Russeau CAIRO, May 27, 2011 (IPS) – Libya’s enormous aquatic reserves could potentially become a new weapon of choice if government forces opt to starve coastal cities that heavily rely on free flowing freshwater. With only five percent… Continue Reading
Hernán Scandizzo So far this year two Argentine court decisions reinforced the requirement of consultation prior to any legislative or administrative action affecting indigenous peoples. The decisions by the Court of First Instance and the Superior Court of Justice, or… Continue Reading
By Asef Bayat* CHICAGO, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – The presence of religion in public space challenges our ideas about the roles of faith in our lives and politics. Over the last centuries, proponents of secularisation have claimed that as… Continue Reading
By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint PARIS (IDN) – Besides his notoriety as a womanizer and philanderer, former International Monetary Fund’s managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn enjoys a high international professional reputation as an able economist and politician. He won this prestige… Continue Reading
Patricio Navia* – Buenos Aires Herald The Republican Party is finally narrowing down its list of presidential candidates that will compete for the party nomination starting with the Iowa caucus of February 6, 2012 and the New Hampshire primaries of… Continue Reading
Editor Business Services – The Guardian Wednesday, 25 May 2011 . MERIT, not nationality, should determine, who replaces Dominique Strauss-Kahn as the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the finance ministers of Australia and SA said in a joint… Continue Reading
By Emma Bonino (*) ROME, May (IPS) From Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Europe is being swept by social and political changes so massive that they are calling into question its fundamental principles. Diversity, which has been a positive constant throughout… Continue Reading
By Randy Rydell* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) – The world is filled with serious problems that must be addressed — poverty; racism; illiteracy; contagious diseases; terrorism; injustice; to name only a few. So why should we bother to focus on… Continue Reading
By Aline Cunico NEW YORK, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – With the arrest of the once powerful head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, following allegations that he raped a maid in his 3,000-dollar-a-night penthouse suite at the… Continue Reading
David Shulman – The New York Review of Books May , 2011. UN investigator Richard Goldstone visiting the destroyed house where members of the al-Samouni family were killed during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, Gaza City, June 3, 2009 On April… Continue Reading
by Tony Wheeler – Newsweek With 6 billion people and counting, our planet is more crowded than ever—but hidden corners still exist. In late 1972, my wife and I had spent six months traveling through Asia when we landed in… Continue Reading
By Irina Bokova and Jorge Sampaio* UNITED NATIONS, May 20, 2011 (IPS) – All cultures and civilisations contribute to the enrichment of humankind. Human beings must respect one another in all their diversity of belief, culture and language. Differences within… Continue Reading
By Elizabeth Whitman NEW YORK, May 18, 2011 (IPS) – “Few paths are more treacherous than the one that challenges an abuse of power,” warns “A Handbook for Committing the Truth: The Corporate Whistleblower’s Survival Guide” – a primer not… Continue Reading
By J. Chandler IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – A global coalition of campaigners is calling for an open and merit-based process to elect the next head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after its Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, locked up… Continue Reading
By Cynthia Gorney – National Geographic Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three… Continue Reading
By Martin Khor* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) – Few really wanted it started, and now no one knows whether to end it or how to end it. In between there has been almost a decade of a roller-coaster of the… Continue Reading
