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• CULTURE-CHINA: Now Showing – Independent Films
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – While Hollywood blockbusters and state-funded historical epics continue to dominate China’s box office, a vibrant independent film scene is quietly growing. Lacking distribution channels that lead to wide audiences, these films, which tend to focus on aspects of da […]
• ENERGY: Is Fracking Even Worse Than Drilling?
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – With cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico barely underway, energy companies are already assuming a crouching stance in anticipation of a no-holds-barred attack by environmentalists on what the industry says is the next major breakthrough in natural resource [...] […]
• MEXICO: Environmentalist Peasants Seek Justice
  Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return to rejoin [...] […]
• Groups Praise U.S. Rights Report as Good First Step
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – In the first ever U.N.-mandated self-assessment of the United States’ human rights record, the Barack Obama administration has reaffirmed its commitment to closing the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay and to fixing the country’s "broken immigration system […]
• HAITI: Scraping by on Mud Cookies
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Wadner Pierre Credit:Wadner Pierre/IPS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – At six in the morning in Cite Soleil, the poorest zone of Haiti’s capital city, the sun is already up. It’s the start of another workday for Lurene Jeanti, making cookies from mud, butter and salt. She’s [...] […]
• SOUTH AFRICA: Public Health Strained by Nurses’ Strike
  Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Chris Stein JOHANNESBURG, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – Striking health workers have continued their work stoppage despite accusations that it endangers patients’ lives. They are part of a nationwide strike by public sector workers that has some observers concerned that rising wage demands could harm South Africa’s […]