News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 580
Public Media Want Piece of Advertising Pie
- Inter Press Service
BRASILIA, Aug 30 (IPS) - Today's new world of digital communications presents public media outlets with a complex challenge: to conquer loyal and active audiences, with programming that is beholden neither to governments, their main funders, nor to market imperatives.
Nationwide Protests Rage against Colombia’s Economic Policies
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Aug 30 (IPS) - A strike declared nearly two weeks ago in Colombia by farmers and joined later by truck drivers, health workers, miners and students spread to include protests in the cities before mushrooming into a general strike Thursday, demanding changes in the government's economic policies.
Low-Wage Strikers Across U.S. Demand Pay Increase
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (IPS) - Workers at fast-food restaurants in 60 cities across the United States went on a one-day strike Thursday, the largest action yet in a strengthening year-long push for higher wages and the opportunity to form unions without retaliation.
West Cold-Shoulders Rebuilding Southern Africa
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE/JOHANNESBURG, Aug 29 (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community has had to revisit its plans to raise funding for its ambitious regional development plan in the wake of a cold-shoulder from western nations and multilateral finance institutions.
Argentina Seeks to Restructure Debt Held by Vulture Funds
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 29 (IPS) - As a sign of Argentina's willingness to repay its bondholders, President Cristina Fernández introduced a bill for a new swap of the foreign debt held by "holdout" creditors who refused earlier restructurings after the country's late 2001 default.
U.S. Executives' Pay on "Inexorable Upward Climb"
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (IPS) - Three years after the passage of landmark legislation aimed at strengthening regulation of major U.S. companies, one of the most criticised disparities characterising today's corporate culture – the outsized compensation offered to top executives – continues to grow.
Cuban Doctors Bring Eyesight, Healthcare to Haiti
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 28 (IPS) - It's Saturday, and the entrance hall of a police station in front of the busy market in Salomon in the Haitian capital has become an improvised health post. In a few minutes there is a long queue of people waiting to be seen by the Cuban medical brigade.
Israeli Lobby Looks to 2008 Law to Justify Request for More U.S. Aid
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (IPS) - Israel and its domestic U.S. lobby are already in the early stages of the next 10-year aid package, which would not go into effect until 2017 and will be the first since Congress passed the Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2008, which requires in part that U.S. military aid to Israel ensure that Israel maintains its "Qualitative Military Edge" (QME) over any combination of states and non-state actors.
World’s Top Chefs Cook for Change
- Inter Press Service
COPENHAGEN, Aug 28 (IPS) - For Denmark's leading chefs, it's not only the "taste" that counts. Many have an ambitious goal to "revise the relationship between people and food," use local ingredients, produce less waste and go completely organic.
Zimbabwe Sails Close to Economic Rocks
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Aug 28 (IPS) - For President Robert Mugabe to defeat the opposition in the Jul. 31 election by hook or by crook may have been a walk in the park, but beating the economic crisis will be another matter. The stock market fell 11 percent the day he was sworn in, the biggest fall in a day since 2009.
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