Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Oct 29 (IPS) – A high-ranking member of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is facing trial on charges of arranging the murder of a Lebanese pop singer. The [...]
POLITICS-US: Plumbing the Depths of Spin
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Peter Costantini LOS ANGELES, Oct 27 (IPS) – In the waning days of an interminable United States presidential campaign, a plumber and would-be small businessman bestrides the narrow race like a colossus with a [...]
ECONOMY: Civil Society Has Something to Say
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, Oct 27 (IPS) – Governments cannot deal with the current financial crisis on their own, and need the support of the people they govern, which is ”best translated by the opinions of the [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Poor Hit by Recession and Tax Havens
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. David Cronin BRUSSELS, Oct 27 (IPS) – With signs of a recession preoccupying policy-makers in industrialised countries, prospects for the success of an international conference on providing finance to the world’s poor do not appear high. [...]
FINANCE: Corporate Vows Tested in the West Bank
Global Politics Online / IPS Ida Karlsson UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) – A company that is a member of the U.N. Global Compact for corporate social responsibility has ties to production in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank considered illegal by the United Nations. A spokeperson for the company, Vileda, an international household [...]