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Politics Eats Into Palestinian Breadbasket
- Inter Press Service
JIFTLICK, Occupied West Bank, Sep 14 (IPS) - In the Jordan Valley, contrasts are stark. Lush green agricultural fields and fenced-in greenhouses belong to the Israeli settlements that dot the landscape and benefit from the area's abundant water supply on one hand. On the other, Palestinian farmers denied access to their lands and other resources by the Israeli authorities struggle to cultivate the most basic crops and make a living wage.
U.S. Public-Elite Disconnect Emerges Over Syria
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 14 (IPS) - While much of the foreign policy elite here sees the tide of public opposition to U.S. air strikes against Syria that swept over Washington during the past two weeks as evidence of a growing isolationism, veteran pollsters and other analysts say other factors were more relevant.
U.S. Debates Climate Impact of Development Investments
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 13 (IPS) - A debate is heating up here over the extent to which U.S. government-facilitated private-sector development investments should be required to take into account how those ventures impact on climate change.
Low Expectations for High-Level Nuke Meet
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) - The upcoming event at the United Nations is being billed as something politically unique.
When Mexico Let Big Brother Spy
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 13 (IPS) - Non-governmental organisations are urging the United Nations Human Rights Council to demand explanations from the Mexican state for the weak protection it provided its citizens from large-scale spying by the United States.
Groups Force Release of NSA Spying Documents
- Inter Press Service
SPOKANE, Washington, Sep 13 (IPS) - After more than two years of fighting to prevent their release, the Department of Justice has released numerous documents related to domestic spying on U.S. citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the previously-secret court opinions that authorised the NSA's controversial programmes to go forward.
DRC Peacebuilding Ignores Local Solutions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 13 (IPS) - Despite existing local expertise and strategies in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to build peace-supporting structures at the community level, official debates and media coverage continue to focus predominantly on military interventions.
Zimbabwe Minister Dismisses Claims of Media Clampdown
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Sep 13 (IPS) - He is the architect of what critics call Zimbabwe's most repressive media laws, and the press here anticipate that journalists arrests and media suppression may intensify now that he has been appointed minister of media and information. But Professor Jonathan Moyo has dismissed the concerns and told IPS "journalists had nothing to fear but fear itself."
Hopeful but Homesick in Peshawar Schools
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep 13 (IPS) - "I miss my mother and cry every night," eight-year-old Afaq Ali tells IPS. He is a Class 5 student at the University Public School in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the administrative centre for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to its west.
U.S. Report of GE Alfalfa Contamination Was "Inevitable"
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 13 (IPS) - With state and federal government agencies investigating a U.S. farmer's complaint that his alfalfa crop may have been contaminated by a genetically modified strain, consumer rights groups are suggesting that such reports were inevitable.
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