Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 19 (IPS) – Brazil expects its international standing to be bolstered by more cooperative relations with the United States under the presidency of Barack Obama, as well as a shift in Washington’s position on the issue of climate change and with respect [...]

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Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Jan 19 (IPS) – Europe now evidently understands what the U.S. has long understood – if you want to move Israelis on peace, you need to make them feel secure.
There they were Sunday evening, six of the Continent’s most powerful leaders [...]

Global Politics Online Journal
B.RAMAN
Despite differences over strategies and tactics in the fight against global jihadi terrorism, there is a convergence of views between the outgoing administration of President George Bush and the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama as to what should be the ultimate objective of the US war against global terrorism.
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Daniel Luban
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) – The three-week-old war in Gaza – halted Saturday by an Israeli ceasefire – has had a polarising effect on the U.S. Jewish community, resulting in a deeper and at times acrimonious split between dovish groups that are sceptical of the Israeli military [...]

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Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (IPS) – Just as the foreign policy of U.S. President George W. Bush was characterised by a continuous battle for control between hawks led by Vice President Dick Cheney and realists based primarily in the State Department and intelligence community – and, [...]

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Charles Arthur*
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 14 (IPS) – Haiti’s peasant farmers are organising and taking action to try and bring an end to the country’s dependence on food imports, and to avert the prospect of looming famine.
In recent months, meetings and demonstrations held by peasant farmer groups and supported by [...]

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Analysis by Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 15 (IPS) – Eighteen U.S. veterans kill themselves every day. More veterans are committing suicide than are dying in combat overseas. One in every three homeless men in the United States has put on a uniform and served his country. On any [...]

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Peter Richards
PORT OF SPAIN, Jan 14 (IPS) – As it stands now, the office of the president of Trinidad and Tobago is largely ceremonial. But if the draft document on a new constitution released by the Patrick Manning government last week is anything to go by, that could [...]

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Raúl Gutiérrez
SAN SALVADOR, Jan 13 (IPS) – A Spanish judge’s decision to investigate 14 Salvadoran military officers for the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador is a ”sign of hope against impunity,” according to lawyers and activists.
In his resolution, which was seen by IPS, [...]

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William Fisher
NEW YORK, Jan 13 (IPS) – Human rights groups are hailing reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. But they are urging him to provide [...]