News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 638
Green Taxes Seek a Spot in Mexico’s Reform Bill
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Mar 14 (IPS) - As the Mexican government prepares a broad tax reform bill, experts and activists see it as an opportunity to include new "green taxes" aimed at raising funds for curbing pollution.
Latin America Won’t Lose Cheap Oil from Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 14 (IPS) - Venezuela will keep in place the regional energy integration policies promoted by the late president Hugo Chávez if he is succeeded by acting president Nicolás Maduro, experts on regional relations told IPS.
Cameroonian Farmers Find Justice in Fair Fruit
- Inter Press Service
DOUALA, Cameroon, Mar 14 (IPS) - The fruit farmers in Njombe, a small town in the coastal Littoral Region of Cameroon, learned a life lesson about "making lemonade out of lemons" - or rather "dried fruit out of fruit" when their land was taken from them by the government and leased to an international farming company.
Afghanistan Faces “Massive Economic Constriction” after U.S. Withdrawal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (IPS) - Next year's drawdown of U.S. forces and decline in U.S. aid will leave in its wake an Afghan political system lacking legitimacy and stability, according to interviews with Afghanistan experts, news reports and congressional studies.
Native Women Bring Solar Energy to Chile's Atacama Desert
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 13 (IPS) - Three indigenous communities from the Chilean highlands have just received solar panels, which will be set up and maintained by unlikely solar engineers: five native women who travelled halfway around the world to India and overcame language and other barriers to bring photovoltaic energy to their villages.
Young Spaniards Exiled by Unemployment
- Inter Press Service
MALAGA, Spain, Mar 13 (IPS) - "They wanted to hire me, and that was something that hadn't ever happened to me before," says Marta Seror, a 25-year-old college graduate from Spain who is now working in an outsourcing company in Poland.
Drought Hits Policies
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 13 (IPS) - Drought has dramatically increased as a consequence of climate change. Most countries react to it only after it has occurred, but don't have national policies to prevent it. The high-level meeting on national drought policies in Geneva this week is trying to match scientific knowledge with political awareness.
U.S. Intelligence Sees Cyber Threats Eclipsing Terrorism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) - Cyber threats appear to have largely replaced terrorism as posing the greatest risks to U.S. national security, which also confronts major longer-term challenges from the effects of natural resource shortages and climate change, according to the latest in a series of annual threat assessments by the U.S. intelligence community.
From Brazil’s Family Farm to the School Lunchroom Table
- Inter Press Service
PARACAMBÍ, Brazil, Mar 12 (IPS) - Separating Maria Gomes Morais' farm and a school in Rio de Janeiro are fields, hills and dirt roads that are impassable when it rains. But a school meal programme has forged a path linking the fresh produce harvested by small farmers like her with the need to provide nourishment to 45 million schoolchildren around Brazil.
Public Pays for Fukushima While Nuclear Industry Profits
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 12 (IPS) - Two years after Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the country faces 100 to 250 billion dollars in cleanup and compensation costs, tens of thousands of displaced people and widespread impacts of radiation.
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