Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1088
Syrian Split Divides Christians
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, May 04 (IPS) - Malki Hana says his men are afraid of cameras. "Most of them are army defectors and they may easily get in trouble," says this commander of a mostly unknown armed group in Syria.
OP-ED: The Two-State Option is Dead: Time for New Thinking
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 03 (IPS) - The recent suspension of the U.S. -engineered Israeli-Palestinian talks signals a much deeper reality than the immediate factors that caused it. The peace process and the two-state solution, which for years were on life support, are now dead.
Women Voters Win
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, May 02 (IPS) - About a third of the voters in the Afghanistan presidential election were women. That still gives Afghan women a say in running the country, as never before.
U.S. Religious Progressivism “Way of the Future”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 02 (IPS) - The future of religion in U.S. politics lies not with conservatives but rather with religious progressives, social scientists here are suggesting, with a faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a new movement for social justice.
Capitalism Unable to Deal with Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 02 (IPS) - It is time to craft new politics and economic policies to address the sustainability crisis, according to the latest edition of a flagship report by the Worldwatch Institute, a think tank here.
Displaced and Disturbed in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 02 (IPS) - Every night in his sleep, Rizwan Ahmed sees his sons being killed. "When he wakes up, he starts crying. He realises they are dead and it was the nightmare he has been having," says Dr. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the psychiatrist treating him.
Philippines Bases Hopes on US, Controversially
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, May 01 (IPS) - Amid growing uncertainties over U.S. commitment to Asia, as multiple flashpoints in Eastern Europe and the Middle East continue to consume global attention, President Barack Obama took a long-awaited trip (Apr. 23-29) to Asia, where he visited leading allies in North- and Southeast Asia.
Finding the Needle in the Post-2015 Haystack
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) - How will the U.N. prioritise the goals of its Post-2015 Development Agenda? Which goals deserve more funding? And which goals will help the most people? These are the questions that the Copenhagen Consensus Centre (CCC) seeks to answer.
Governments Crushing Their Own
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Apr 30 (IPS) - The global spectre of state violence against political dissent, with paramilitary law enforcement units advancing against citizens they are employed to protect in cities such as Cairo, Bangkok and Kiev is daily news. But in some developing countries, the police are being used to put down indigenous opposition to the alliance of state and corporate power over resource extraction.
Obama’s Half-Pivot to Asia
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 29 (IPS) - President Barack Obama's recent tour of Asia was an opportunity to reenergise his foreign policy after a series of setbacks in the global arena.
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