Global Geopolitics Net Wednesday, September 10, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Sarah McGregor DAR ES SALAAM, Sep 10 (IPS) – The launch of the African Union’s official civil society council may strengthen the continent’s ability to address human rights violations and tackle poverty, activists say. The first permanent General Assembly [...]
AGRICULTURE-MALAWI: Going Against the Grain on Subsidies
September 6, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Saturday, September 06, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Busani Bafana LILONGWE, Sep 5 (IPS) – In each of the past three growing seasons, the family of Bernadette Banda, in Chidambo village in the central region of Malawi, has [...]
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Why The Richest Continent Is Also The Poorest
September 5, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Friday, September 05, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Miriam Mannak ACCRA, Sep 5 (IPS) – The ecological impact of natural resource exploitation on the lives of the poor in Africa and other regions is not being addressed sufficiently [...]
BOOKS-US: Revelations of an Abu Ghraib Interrogator
September 4, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Thursday, September 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Aaron Glantz* SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 4 (IPS) – Few people have thought as much about the morality of the U.S. occupation of Iraq than Joshua Casteel, a former U.S. Army [...]
POLITICS-SOMALIA: U.S. Policy Likely to Bring Blowback
September 3, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Wednesday, September 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Sep 3 (IPS) – U.S. counter-terrorism policies and support for the Ethiopian-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia have helped create an increasingly desperate humanitarian and security [...]
