Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1130
U.S. Jews Less Hawkish on Iran
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) - Despite renewed calls in Congress for increasing pressure on Iran, support for a U.S. attack against the Islamic Republic has declined markedly over the past year, according to the latest in an annual series of polls carried out by the American Jewish Committee (AJC).
U.N. Will Censure Illegal Spying, But Not U.S.
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28 (IPS) - When the 193-member General Assembly adopts a resolution next month censuring the illegal electronic surveillance of governments and world leaders by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the U.N.'s highest policy-making body will spare the United States from public condemnation despite its culpability in widespread wiretapping.
There are Solutions to U.S. Calamities
- Inter Press Service
MANASSAS, Virginia, U.S., Oct 28 (IPS) - Political terrorism failed. The House Republicans used voting in one chamber to put the livelihoods of millions of people inside and outside the U.S. at risk, for their own political goals. And made the mistake of most terrorists, non-state or state: when people suffer they will join us, against our enemy; to find out that people turn against the terrorists instead.
Syrians Under Siege Now in Egypt
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Oct 28 (IPS) - Mahmoud Abu Yousef, 28, sits in one of the suburban subway stations of Egyptian capital Cairo selling socks. He had fled Syria with his wife and one-year-old child this February after his parents and three brothers were killed in the civil war that has been raging in his country since March 2011.
Taliban Waiting to Take Over from the U.S.
- Inter Press Service
Genocide Replaces Separatism in Tamil Diaspora Vocabulary
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 (IPS) - Sri Lankan Tamil hopes for a separate state – Tamil Eelam – in the north and east of the island were dashed when the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were summarily defeated in May 2009 by government forces.
Key Global Financial Agencies Fall Short on Poverty Reduction
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (IPS) - Key multilateral institutions charged with improving regulation of the international financial system are failing to democratise their governance and adequately consider the impact of their actions on the world's poor, says a new report by anti-poverty groups.
U.S. Spying Worldwide May Come Under U.N. Scrutiny
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 25 (IPS) - When Clare Short, Britain's former minister for international development, revealed that British intelligence agents had spied on former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan by bugging his office just before the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the U.N. chief was furious that his discussions with world leaders had been compromised.
Pakistan Drone Story Ignored Military Opposition to Strikes
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (IPS) - The Washington Post on Thursday reported what it presented as new evidence of a secret agreement under which Pakistani officials have long been privately supporting the U.S. drone war in the country even as they publicly criticised it.
Q&A “Terrorist Groups Are Killing, Abducting and Displacing Kurdish People”
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, Oct 25 (IPS) - Kurdish fighters have emerged as a powerful player in the Syrian war thanks to the Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG - "People's Protection Units"), a seemingly well-organised armed group which has so far proved capable of defending the territory it claims in northern Syria.
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