Global Geopolitics Net Sites Sunday, October 26, 2008 © Copyright 2008 Malladi Rama Rao. All rights reserved. By Malladi Rama Rao Many commentators see in the present lows in the India-Sri Lanka relations a repeat of history – what had happened twenty one year ago, June 1987 to be precise, when President J R Jayewardene [...]
MEXICO: Peasants Seek Ways to Block Canadian-Run Mine
August 31, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Sunday, August 31, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Diego Cevallos* – Tierramérica MEXICO CITY, Aug 31 (IPS) – The Canadian mining corporation Minefinders has explored a rural area of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua for 14 years. But as it gets [...]
AFTER TRICKY MUSH, TRICKY ZARDARI
August 27, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Copyright © B. Raman – South Asia Analysis Group www.southasiaanalysis.org B.RAMAN Asif Ali Zardari, the co-Chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party and the leader of the ruling coalition, which came into existence after the elections of February 18,2008, can be as tricky and as insincere [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Pushes Ahead with Settlement Expansion
August 27, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – IPS Wednesday, August 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mel Frykberg JERUSALEM, Aug 27 (IPS) – Israel has published tenders for the construction of 1,761 illegal housing units for Israeli settlers in occupied east Jerusalem alone, according to the Israeli rights group Peace [...]
POLITICS: Is Cold War Rhetoric Back at the U.N.?
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Monday, September 08, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 (IPS) – When the United States and the former Soviet Union were on the verge of a military confrontation over Cuba during [...]