Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1144
Afghans Caught Between Terror and Corruption
- Inter Press Service
HERAT, Afghanistan, Sep 10 (IPS) - The threat to the stability of the Hamid Karzai government in Afghanistan arises not so much from outside as from within. And the one thing that is eating into its edifice is the malaise called corruption.
Dwindling Water Supplies Make Every Drop Count
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 09 (IPS) - Drought and chronic water shortages played a significant role in sparking Syria's civil war and in unrest throughout much of the Middle East, water experts now believe.
Bitcoins Catching On in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 09 (IPS) - The Bitcoin, a virtual currency that circulates outside regular financial systems, is catching on in Latin America.
Downsizing Finance: The Mother of All Bubbles
- Inter Press Service
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Sep 09 (IPS) - As our climate destabilises, floods inundate cities, wildfires burn forests, droughts kill our crops and manmade radioactive isotopes leach into our soil and water, many accountants and policy analysts are waking up. They are joined by NGOs, civic leaders, whistle-blowers and a few public-minded politicians.
Mugabe’s Policies Starve Zimbabweans
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Sep 09 (IPS) - Tambudzai Javangwe from Mwenezi district in southern Zimbabwe, has run out of food and each day she begs for hand-outs from well-wishers so that she can feed herself an her six orphaned grandchildren.
Egyptian Workers Rising Again After the Uprising
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Sep 09 (IPS) - It was the Egyptian state's brutal restrictions on worker freedoms that transformed Kareem El-Beheiry from a disengaged lay worker into a tenacious labour activist.
"Bring What You Want, Take What You Want”
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 08 (IPS) - Disillusioned with an economy that promotes individualism and ruthless consumption, thousands of people in Argentina are giving things away in street markets, organising car pools with strangers or offering free accommodation to travellers from abroad.
Africa's Farmers Seek Private Money
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Sep 08 (IPS) - Africa currently imports almost 40 billion dollars worth of food a year, but it should implement measures to attract private sector investment in agriculture in order to reduce its food import bill and increase its self-reliance, experts in the sector tell IPS.
Cuba Streamlines Public Health System
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 07 (IPS) - One challenge faced by the Cuban government, and a high priority for citizens, is improving the efficiency and sustainability of public health services, a constitutional right that the state is supposed to ensure for all.
U.S., Malaysia Skirmish over Free-Trade Tobacco
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 07 (IPS) - Between concluding rounds of negotiations towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a major U.S.-proposed free trade agreement, a divisive fight has heated up over the extent to which countries should be allowed to regulate the sale of foreign – potentially far cheaper – tobacco products.
Powered by
