Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 567
India Illegal Mining Enquiry Cut Short
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (IPS) - A nationwide enquiry into illegal mining in India was aborted before it completed its investigation into the failings of the country's mining industry. The study had prompted the government to ban mining in two states and arrest high-ranking politicians.
Private Initiative Finds Garbage Profitable in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 23 (IPS) - As private initiative expands in socialist Cuba, it is making incursions into new areas, such as waste picking and recycling – for many a means of subsistence, but for others, a gold mine.
Plantations Winnow Tigers Down to the Hundreds
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 (IPS) - The tiger population in the rainforests of Sumatra is vanishing at a staggering rate, reducing the number of the endangered species to as few as 400, warns Greenpeace International.
'Civil War' Breaks Out Within Al-Shabaab
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Oct 22 (IPS) - For years the Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab was seen as the most cohesive, united and powerful force in the failed state of Somalia. But it is now disintegrating like a house of cards because of internal divisions and power struggles within its leadership, according to Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad, a history and political science professor at Kenya's Kenyatta University.
The United States of Drought
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (IPS) - As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage.
Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV?
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 (IPS) - Carla Vilas Boas is of mixed-race descent – African, European and indigenous - like a majority of the population of Brazil. But she spends hours straightening her hair, trying to look more like the blond, blue-eyed women she sees in the mirror of television.
Al-Shabaab Takes ‘Last Gasps’ in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 21 (IPS) - The explosion went off at 2:40 on a Sunday afternoon, on a tree-lined side street in Ethiopia's capital city of Addis Ababa. The area was a quiet one - home to foreign diplomats, domestic civil servants and several embassies - and the blast was strong enough to kill two men, startle the neighbours, and demolish a small home.
Iran Hawks Down but Not Out After Geneva Talks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (IPS) - Hopeful statements emerging from this week's talks between Iran and the great powers have clearly set back foes of any détente between Washington and Tehran, but they are far from giving up the fight.
U.S. Reforms "Open Floodgates" on Arms Exports
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - On Tuesday, the largest deregulation in the history of U.S. arms exports took place as part of the Barack Obama administration's export reform initiative.
OP-ED: Collapsism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - U.S policymakers indulge in a variety of child's play called collapsism. They close their eyes when they want a particularly despised adversary to go away. And poof! Kim Jong Eun's North Korea eventually disappears. Raul Castro's Cuba eventually vanishes.
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