Global Issues
News headlines for “Consumption and Consumerism”, page 1396
'The Two Guatemalas' Meet
- Inter Press Service
'It’s very hard for them to put food on the table, but they are very noble people,' Diego Orozco, one of the thousands of young urban Guatemalans who spent last weekend with a poor rural family, told IPS.
Bolivia Boosts Incentives for Foreign Oil Companies
- Inter Press Service
Almost six years after the nationalisation of gas and oil reserves in Bolivia, foreign companies maintain an active presence in the sector, and the government is now offering them greater incentives to increase oil production.
Chinese Miners Dig Deep for Death
- Inter Press Service
China is notorious for containing some of the world’s deadliest mines - a reputation that has been corroborated in recent months by a series of fatal accidents. China is the world’s largest consumer and producer of coal. But the mining industry is beset by illegal operations, dangerous working conditions, local corruption and cover-ups of fatalities.
Filipinos Decry New U.S. Military Agreement
- Inter Press Service
Civil society groups and local politicians are reacting with anger to a new agreement by the United States that would increase its military engagement with the Philippines.
U.S. Workers, Students Reclaim May Day
- Inter Press Service
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets here and around the United States Monday calling for an end to what they described as the mounting and corrosive influence of money in politics.
Q&A: Restructuring the Planet's Food System
- Inter Press Service
Thirty percent of food is wasted globally, while one billion people go hungry and another billion are obese.
U.S. Lifestyle Is Not Up for Negotiation
- Inter Press Service
Just before the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, some of the industrial nations, and specifically the United States, were lambasted for their obscenely high consumption of the world's finite resources, including food, water and energy.
TRINIDAD: Charging Betrayal, Labour Unions to Form Own Party
- Inter Press Service
It was a marriage designed to remove the ruling People's National Movement (PNM) from office in the May 24, 2010 general election.
Bangladesh Scores on Girls’ Schooling
- Inter Press Service
Bangladesh continues to score good grades in achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of gender parity in education by 2015, with the trend of more girls than boys attending primary school accelerating this year.
U.S.: Citizens Reclaim Energy Cooperatives
- Inter Press Service
As the United Nations and countries around the world look at cooperatives as an alternative economic model for the production of energy, rural energy cooperatives have thrived for over eight decades in the U.S., and citizens in some parts of the country are beginning to reclaim them through the democratic process.
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