Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stephanie Kale KIGALI, Nov 8 (IPS) – War is expensive. The costs include not only the millions of dollars spent on military equipment and maintaining an army, but the financial and psychological toll it takes on the everyday lives of people caught in the crossfire. When fighting takes place [...]
PERU: Free Trade Opens Environmental Window
November 1, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, November 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica LIMA, Nov 1 (IPS) – Legislative decree 1090, which modifies Peru’s forest policy, is worrying U.S. trade authorities because it contravenes environmental clauses of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that is to [...]
FINANCE: NGOs Call for Radical Reforms as IMF Offers New Loans
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) – Two weeks before U.S. President George W. Bush hosts an economic summit to address the six-week-old financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on the world’s capital and stock markets, [...]
POLITICS: U.S. Cutoff Threat Unlikely to Save Iraq Troop Pact
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) – The threat by the George W. Bush administration last week to withdraw all economic and military support from the Iraqi government if it does not accept the [...]
POLITICS: Thai Tensions Form Apt Backdrop for ASEAN Meet
October 28, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, October 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Oct 28 (IPS) – The decision by Thai government to shift the venue of a regional summit from Bangkok to the northern city of Chiang Mai points to an administration unsure [...]
