Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1185
Clean Ripples Spread Across East Europe
- Inter Press Service
BUDAPEST, Jun 18 (IPS) - Monday's resignation of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas over a massive corruption scandal may well mark a new era of judicial independence in the Czech Republic and possibly the whole post-communist region.
Colombia, the United States, and Montesquieu
- Inter Press Service
ALFAZ, Spain, Jun 18 (IPS) - The United States and Colombia are the leaders in mental anxiety in the Americas.
Both have good reasons: Colombia has witnessed the longest lasting violence in any contemporary country: from 1949, with some interruptions, then on again from 1964 with the notorious guerilla group, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
The Taliban Torches a Lifeline
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 18 (IPS) - The United States is laying meticulous plans ahead of its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it has clearly overlooked how its continued drones strikes on the tribal areas of neighbouring Pakistan will affect the much-anticipated pullout.
Entrepreneurs Seek Way Out of Crisis in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Jun 18 (IPS) - The people in the textile factory where Lourdes Soler presented the design of her skirts had never seen such detailed "blueprints" of a garment. Spain's depressed labour market forced the technical architect to reinvent herself and create her own job – a growing trend in this crisis-stricken country.
Redoubling Efforts Against Racism in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jun 18 (IPS) - Jokes, songs, crude gestures and epithets that degrade people of African descent are still common in Cuba, despite the fact that the constitution prohibits discrimination based on skin colour, and in spite of more recent political measures, activists say.
Kurds Advance, Into the Unknown
- Inter Press Service
GIRKE LEGE, Syria, Jun 18 (IPS) - A ban on political and even social gatherings, a bar on Kurdish language and culture; uprooting people, forced disappearances and a ‘caste' of hundreds of thousands of local Kurds deprived of citizenship... life for Kurds in pre-war Syria was probably as dire as it is today for their kin in Iran.
Diamond Mining Could Push Angola’s Antelope to Extinction
- Inter Press Service
DUBAI, Jun 18 (IPS) - Environmental campaigners are urging the Angolan government to halt plans to mine diamonds inside a national reserve that is home to the world's last wild population of a rare antelope, the Giant Sable.
U.S. Court Decision to Speed Introduction of Generic Drugs
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 17 (IPS) - The Supreme Court pushed back Monday against a longstanding practise in the U.S. pharmaceuticals industry under which large-scale companies pay producers of generic copies to hold off introducing those low-cost drugs into the marketplace.
Analysts Say Oil Could Help Mend U.S.-Venezuela Relations
- Inter Press Service
No "Free Pass" for U.S. in Human Rights Film Festival
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 17 (IPS) - Stories of struggle can be found all over the world, from a law classroom in Oklahoma and the brutal borderlands between the United States and Mexico to a Bedouin village in Jordan and wedding parties in Morocco, as the 24th Human Rights Watch Film Festival is showcasing.
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