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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.
Washington State Becomes Latest GMO Battleground
- Inter Press Service
SEATTLE, Washington, U.S., Oct 17 (IPS) - The northwestern state of Washington could become the first in the U.S. to require labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on foods and food packages, after a similar measure in California failed last year.
Iran Nuclear Deal May Have its Beginnings in Geneva
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 17 (IPS) - Talks between Iran and world powers known as the P5+1 over Iran's nuclear programme wrapped up here Wednesday with expressions of encouragement and hope by all parties, a commitment to reconvene in just three weeks, and several welcome "firsts".
When Poverty Quietly Morphs into Catastrophe
- Inter Press Service
Walking an Economic Tightrope with No Safety Net
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 (IPS) - With the richest one percent of the population now owning 40 percent of global assets, and the bottom half sharing just one percent, inequality is fast being recognised as a stubborn underlying obstacle to development.
Programme to Boost Small Farmers Worldwide Faces Woes of Its Own
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Oct 16 (IPS) - When it launched in 2007, the Food and Agricultural Organisation programme known as Food Security through Commercialisation of Agriculture (FSCA) tried to adopt an approach that differed from on-going efforts to achieve food security, which focused primarily on food production.
With Obama Away, the Chinese Play
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Oct 16 (IPS) - As the U.S. struggles with a weeks-long government shutdown which has threatened the country's economic recovery and forced President Barack Obama to cancel a series of high-stakes visits to Asia, China has instead taken the centre-stage, boosting ties with Asian neighbours and promising multi-billion trade and investment deals.
Israel and the Gulf Increasingly Nervous Over Iran-U.S. Détente
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (IPS) - As hopeful, albeit vague, statements about talks in Geneva between Iran and the great powers continued to issue from the Swiss city Tuesday, foes of détente between Washington and Tehran maintained their own high tempo of work.
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