Thawing Permafrost May Be "Huge Factor" in Global Warming
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Crack patterns in Arctic permafrost as viewed from a helicopter. Credit: Brocken Inaglory/cc by 3.0 By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 14 (IPS) –...
View ArticleSyrian Civil War Grounded To A Stalemate
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Zachary Fillingham* | Geopoliticalmonitor.com IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TORONTO (IDN) – Opposition troops in Syria have largely come to be referred...
View ArticleCrisis Group Urges Comprehensive Talks to End Sudan Conflicts
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Residents of the Kassab Camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in North Darfur wait to be examined by doctors. Credit: UN Photo/Albert González...
View ArticleIndigenous Youth Speak up to Protect Their Roots
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Indigenous people around the world not only face loss of language and culture but are also often deprived of their basic human rights. Above, two...
View ArticleYemen’s Youth Denied the Revolutionary Change
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Some protesters still remain hopeful on the anniversary of the revolution in Yemen. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS. Rebecca Murray SANA’A, Feb 16 (IPS) –...
View ArticleOperation Condor on Trial in Argentina
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Manuel Cordero, captured on camera in 2009 by a journalist with Uruguay’s Channel 12 violating house arrest in Brazil. Credit: Canal 12 Marcela Valente...
View ArticleWheels of Industry Slowing in Brazil
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 06 (IPS) – Industry is the ailing sector of the Brazilian economy, with production falling 2.7 percent in 2012 in spite...
View ArticleGroup Warns of “Natural Resources Giveaway” in Latin America
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Caudalosa workers clean up mining tailings in Peru’s Opamayo River. Credit: Milagros Salazar/IPS Joe Hitchon WASHINGTON, Mar 26 (IPS) – Researchers have...
View ArticleAs Cyprus Collapses, It’s a Race to the Mediterranean Gas Finish Line
By. Jen Alic of Oilprice.com Cyprus is preparing for total financial collapse as the European Central Bank turns its back on the island after its parliament rejected a scheme to make Cypriot citizens...
View ArticleObesity and Hypertension – Signs of Inequality in Chile
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Promoting friendship and outdoor games for children is part of Elige Vivir Sano’s programme to combat obesity. Credit: Elige Vivir Sano Marianela...
View ArticleThailand Holds Peace Talks with Muslim Rebels
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS AJ Correspondents DOHA, Mar 28 (IPS) – Thai authorities and Muslim rebels leaders have started peace talks aimed at ending almost a decade of unrest in...
View ArticleXI JINPING ON SINO-INDIAN RELATIONS
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN In his first visit abroad as the President of China since assuming office on March 14,2013, Mr.Xi Jinping is scheduled to visit Russia, Tanzania,...
View ArticleTurkey’s Excessive Neo-liberalism Threatens ‘Peace at Home’
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Jacques N. Couvas ANKARA, Jun 05 (IPS) – "Peace at home, peace in the world" is the official motto of the Turkish Republic. Coined in 1931 by the...
View ArticleEgypt: Developments in Continuing Revolution, Not a Coup
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ismail Serageldin* | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis CAIRO (IDN) – Egypt is once more doing things its own unique way. After millions of people went into...
View ArticleBrazilian Athletes Left “Homeless” by Olympic City
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS The recently rebuilt Maracaná stadium in Rio de Janeiro. Credit: Rio de Janeiro government CC BY 3.0 Fabiola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 09 (IPS) – With...
View ArticleEgypt Orders Arrest of Brotherhood Leader
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS AJ Correspondents DOHA, Qatar, Jul 10 (Al Jazeera) – Egypt’s prosecutor’s office has ordered the arrest of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie on...
View ArticleIn Haiti, Planting Trees Is No Simple Matter
Agronomist Ludson Lafontant looking at one of the recently constructed ledges during a visit to Doucet in August 2013. It contains a young mango tree plant, a grass plant, and peanut plants. Photo:...
View ArticleSaving Children From Loggers
Maddlyn Maelofa (far right) and young girls in Huahai village in Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS. Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Catherine Wilson...
View ArticleRising Prices Threaten to Increase Inequality in Argentina
Supermarkets and other stores in Argentina have joined the Precios Cuidados price watch programme. Credit: Fabiana Frayssinet/IPS Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS...
View ArticleValparaíso Blaze Highlights the City’s Poverty
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS The bleak landscape left behind on La Cruz hill, one of the hardest-hit by the blaze that started on Saturday Apr. 12 in the Chilean city of Valparaíso....
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