Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 465
Organic Farming in India Points the Way to Sustainable Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
NAGAPATNAM, India, Jan 07 (IPS) - Standing amidst his lush green paddy fields in Nagapatnam, a coastal district in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a farmer named Ramajayam remembers how a single wave changed his entire life.
The Rise and Fall of the World's Poorest Nations
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 07 (IPS) - The world's 48 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) - a special category of developing nations created by the General Assembly in 1971 but refused recognition by the World Bank - have long been described as "poorest of the poor" in need of special international assistance for their economic survival.
Spectre of Violence Hangs Over Sri Lanka Polls
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jan 06 (IPS) - As 14.5 million Sri Lankans prepare to select their next leader, there is growing fear that violence could mar the Jan. 8 elections, billed as the closet electoral contest in the island's history.
India’s ‘Manual Scavengers’ Rise Up Against Caste Discrimination
- Inter Press Service
MUMBAI, Jan 06 (IPS) - Watching Bittal Devi deftly weave threads of different colours into a vibrant patchwork quilt, it's hard to imagine that this 46-year-old's hands have spent the better part of their life cleaning toilets.
OPINION: Sabotaging U.S.-Cuba Détente in the Kennedy Era
- Inter Press Service
WHITE PLAINS, New York, Jan 06 (IPS) - I grew up in Hickory Hill, my family's home in Virginia which was often filled with veterans of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
OPINION: Doubling Down on Dictatorship in the Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 05 (IPS) - For a moment, four years ago, it seemed that dictators in the Middle East would soon be a thing of the past.
OPINION: Tensions Rise as Sri Lankans Prepare for Historic Polls
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jan 05 (IPS) - These days, the national greeting in Sri Lanka is a simple question: "So, what do you think?"
Everyone from van drivers waiting to pick kids up from school, to mechanics repairing vehicles, to barbers cutting your hair have only this question on their lips.
OPINION: JFK’s Secret Negotiations with Fidel
- Inter Press Service
WHITE PLAINS, New York, Jan 05 (IPS) - On the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, one of his emissaries was secretly meeting with Fidel Castro at Varadero Beach in Cuba to discuss terms for ending the U.S. embargo against the island and beginning the process of détente between the two countries.
Children Starving to Death in Pakistan's Drought-Struck Tharparkar District
- Inter Press Service
MITHI, Pakistan, Jan 03 (IPS) - The main entrance to the Civil Hospital in Mithi, headquarters of the Tharparkar district in Pakistan's southern Sindh Province, is blocked by a couple of men clad in traditional dress and turbans. They are trying to console a woman who is sobbing so heavily she has to gasp for breath.
Oil Price Plunge Could Take a Bite from Arms Budgets
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 02 (IPS) - In a satirical piece titled 'An Unserious Look at the Year Ahead' in the Wall Street Journal last week, Hugo Rifkind predicts the price of a barrel of oil will fall so low that people across the world would start buying oil for the barrel - and throw the oil out.
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