Oliver Grimm – Die Presse The exact amount is 6,157 euros: that is what it costs to hold a meeting of the board of directors of EFSA, the European Food Safety Authority. And yes, this is the figure per head.… Continue Reading
By Ravi Kanth Devarakonda GENEVA, Mar 30, 2012 (IPS) – Brazil and South Africa have experienced a widespread contraction of their manufacturing industries, with the latter suffering massive unemployment as well, thanks to the rampant volatility and misalignment of dominant… Continue Reading
By Saul Landau* – ZSpace Page Western media has focused attention on Sgt. Robert Bales? background. He allegedly murdered 16 Afghan civilians, 9 of them children, near Kandahar. After the bloodbath, Bales returned to his base and confessed.
By GABRIELE PARUSSINI And PAUL HANNON – The Wall Street Journal PARIS?The economies of Europe and North America will diverge in the first half of this year, with European budget cuts dragging on demand while the U.S. economic recovery picks… Continue Reading
Editorial- The Hindu The first conviction at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the tenth year of its functioning is a good time to take stock of how well an institution that was designed to counter war crimes and crimes… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 27, 2012 (IPS) – When a landmark U.N conference on sustainable development kicks off in Brazil mid-June, more than 120 world leaders are expected to participate in the much-ballyhooed talkfest on the future of… Continue Reading
Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism The US nominee to lead the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, has come under attack for editing a book called ?Dying for Growth.? It apparently performs the cardinal sins of questioning whether a relentless pursuit… Continue Reading
By Fab?ola Ortiz* RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 27, 2012 (Tierram?rica) – Hundreds of non-governmental organisations and social movements from around the world hope to counter the failure of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), which they consider inevitable,… Continue Reading
By Derek Henry Flood – Asia Times “He is a black man! From Africa!” was how an exuberant Libyan rebel fighter described to Asia Times Online a purported Chadian national captured from pro-Gaddafi forces after the rebel victory in the… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, March 2012 (IPS) – In a surprise to many development and finance experts here on Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Jim Yong Kim, a relatively unknown but highly regarded international health specialist to become the… Continue Reading
Julian Borger – guardian.co.uk, Former officials warn of parallels between IAEA approach to Iran and mistakes over Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nuclear watchdog at the heart of the… Continue Reading
Analysis by John Feffer WASHINGTON, Mar 23, 2012 (IPS) – The geopolitical centre of gravity, as measured in arms spending and transfers, has shifted to Asia. The top five arms importers over the last five years, according to new data… Continue Reading
By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsEssay BERLIN (IDN) – It remains a matter of debate when terrorism was invented. For modern political purposes, fake terrorism was most probably invented in Cuba, in February 1898. The U.S. government was at the time… Continue Reading
By IPS/Al Jazeera* DOHA, Mar 22, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Renegade Malian soldiers say they have ended the rule of President Amadou Toumani Toure after seizing control of the presidential palace and the state television station in the West African… Continue Reading
By Eva Weiler IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – More than six billion men, women and children will inhabit urban areas around the world in 2050 when the global population would have surged to nine billion, putting stress on the natural… Continue Reading
By Gareth Porter* VIENNA, Mar 20, 2012 (IPS) – The first detailed account of negotiations between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran last month belies earlier statements by unnamed Western officials portraying Iran as refusing to cooperate with the… Continue Reading
By Nikolaj Nielsen ?EU Observer BRUSSELS – Even as President Alexander Lukashenko becomes increasingly cruel and unusual, the EU capital is seeing an unprecedented amount of lobbying on his behalf. Mid-level diplomats will this week discuss who else to add… Continue Reading
By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON , Mar. 20, 2012 (IPS) – Despite strenuous efforts by prominent neo-conservatives and other hawks, a war-weary U.S. public is clearly very leery of any armed intervention in what many experts believe is rapidly becoming a… Continue Reading
Analysis by Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW, Mar 19, 2012 (IPS) – India?s proposal to set up a bank of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will top the agenda at the summit of the group in… Continue Reading
By BILL KELLER – The New York Times WHEN you?ve been wrong about something as important as war, as I have, you owe yourself some hard thinking about how to avoid repeating the mistake. And if that?s true for a… Continue Reading
