News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1061
OPINION: Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Future for Industrial Development
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Oct 30 (IPS) - As representatives of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), we are sometimes asked whether industrial development is still relevant to a world which many observers have claimed over the past decades to have entered the "post-industrial age". Our answer is always an emphatic "yes", shaped both by the evidence of history and current events.
Democracy is “Radical” in Northern Syria
- Inter Press Service
AMUDA, Syria, Oct 28 (IPS) - There was never anything particularly remarkable about this northern town of 25,000. However, today it has become the lab for one the most pioneering political experiments ever conducted in the entire Middle East region.
Resolving Key Nuclear Issue Turns on Iran-Russia Deal
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (IPS) - U.S. and Iranian negotiators are working on a compromise approach to the issue of Iran's uranium enrichment capabilities, which the Barack Obama administration has said in the past Iran was refusing to make concessions on.
OPINION: The West Prefers Military Order Against History
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 (IPS) - More senseless bombing of Muslims, more defeats for the United States-West, more ISIS-type movements, more West-Islam polarisation. Any way out?
OPINION: Where Governments Fail, It’s Up to the People to Rise
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Oct 27 (IPS) - Pomerania in northern Poland is famous for its unpolluted environment, fertile soils and historic heritage. So far, these valuable farmlands have been free from heavy industry but that situation might change as a shadow looms over the lives of Pomeranians.
Put People Not ‘Empire of Capital’ at Heart of Development
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Oct 27 (IPS) - President Rafael Correa Delgado of Ecuador does not mince words when it comes to development. "Neoliberal policies based on so-called competitiveness, efficiency and the labour flexibility framework have helped the empire of capital to prosper at the cost of human labour," he told a crowded auditorium at the 15th Raul Prebitsch Lecture.
OPINION: Contras and Drugs, Three Decades Later
- Inter Press Service
SAN JUAN, Oct 26 (IPS) - In late 1986, Washington was rocked by revelations that the Ronald Reagan administration had illegally aided a stateless army known as the contras in Central America.
OPINION: The Group of 77 & IPS at 50
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 23 (IPS) - When the Group of 77 commemorated its 50th anniversary recently, Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency was not far behind.
U.S. Contractors Convicted in 2007 Blackwater Baghdad Traffic Massacre
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (IPS) - A federal jury here Wednesday convicted one former Blackwater contractor of murder and three of his colleagues of voluntary manslaughter in the deadly shootings of 14 unarmed civilians killed in Baghdad's Nisour Square seven years ago.
U.S. Destroys Its Own Weapons in Enemy Hands
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 (IPS) - When the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured a treasure trove of U.S. weapons from fleeing Iraqi soldiers last month, one of the rebel leaders with a morbid sense of humour was quoted as saying rather sarcastically: "We hope the Americans would honour their agreements and service our helicopters."
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