Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 1189
Momentum Builds in U.S., Beyond to End Corporate Tax Evasion
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 16 (IPS) - The U.S. government's main watchdog on Monday reported that U.S. corporations are paying taxes on less than half of their declared income, largely due to dozens of tax breaks that have come under increased scrutiny in recent months.
Eternal Energy Revolution Picking Up Steam
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Apr 15 (IPS) - "Be a climate-protection hero, not a climate victim" is the message energy experts from around the world are bringing to San Francisco Tuesday.
As West Falters, Arms Spending Rises in Developing World
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 15 (IPS) - The spreading economic crisis is taking a bite out of Western military spending - even as the world's developing nations, along with Russia and China, boosted their arms expenditures last year.
Q&A: Innovation Key to Sustainable Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 15 (IPS) - Innovation, as the fruit of science and technology, will play a fundamental role in the Sustainable Development Goals that could go into effect in 2015, says Néstor Osorio, president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Defusing the "Three Against Two" Nuclear Pentagon
- Inter Press Service
KYOTO, Apr 15 (IPS) - It has not been this bad since the 1950-53 Korean War.
October 1962, the Cuba-USSR-U.S. crisis, comes to mind. There were horror visions of mushroom clouds. A proud Cuba, with a strong leader-dictatorship, a social revolution in the near past, was denied a normal place in the state system, bullied by the U.S. and some allies with sanctions and boycotts into isolation, which has lasted more than 50 years.
Commodities Trade Haven Faces Protests
- Inter Press Service
ZUG, Switzerland, Apr 14 (IPS) - The powerful Swiss commodity sector is under fire here, as citizens fed up with government inaction on charges of corporate corruption, tax evasion and lack of transparency gear up for major protests.
Culture Is the New Resistance
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Apr 14 (IPS) - Ela, a young Tunisian woman whose face is barely visible behind her niqab, says she has spent five months protesting a university ban against the religious garment in the classroom "to no avail". On the other side of the capital Tunis, a group of students decked out in djellabas and keffiyehs (traditional Tunisian costumes) with the Tunisian flag wrapped around their shoulders, perform the Harlem Shake: a dance form that originated in the United States in the early 1980s but has recently gone viral online as a popular meme.
Give a Teenager a Camera, Watch the World Change
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 13 (IPS) - Today's youth are hardly passive consumers of content – they create it, endlessly updating via social media and spreading information faster than one can say "go".
Greece Becomes Outpost in Turkey’s “Anti-Terror” Campaign
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS, Apr 13 (IPS) - Zeki Gorbuz, a Turkish asylum seeker in Greece, who was arrested on Feb. 12, remains detained today due to an international warrant that was transmitted by Turkish authorities to Greece just one day before his asylum interview. Turkish media were quick to report the arrest, describing Gorbuz as a radical leftist and regional leader of the Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLCP), which has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the Turkish government.
Tents Take on Settlements
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Apr 13 (IPS) - Tent cities are being set up by Palestinians all over the West Bank to protest against Israeli settlements, building on a protest during the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama last month.
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