Global News Blog Archive of Articles and Reports
For technical reasons the web address for this blog has been changed and the blog has been converted into an archive of past full text articles with analysis and reports on global geopolitical and economic issues.
New articles and reports will appear on the Global News Blog Networks Global Analyst Online site at this blog’s old [...]
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.520
Global News Blog
April 24, 2009
B.RAMAN
Like the Neo Taliban of Afghanistan, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has evolved in less than a year from a bunch of suicide bombers to a conventional army capable of set-piece, stand and fight battles with the Pakistani Army and para-military forces. This conversion has been facilitated by the [...]
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.509
Global News Blog
Monday, March 30, 2009
B.RAMAN
President Barack Obama’s new comprehensive Af-Pak strategy unveiled on March 27,2009, to deal with a mix of cancerous problems might impress and enthuse the new Internet generation with which Obama feels comortable, but not Indian professionals in terrorism with their feet firmly on [...]
Global News Blog, April 22, 2009
B.RAMAN
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is in its death rattle. It was decisively defeated by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces weeks ago, but a handful of its leadership headed by Prabhakaran has cynically and cruelly prolonged the agony of the Tamil civilians by using them as a buffer [...]
Global News Blog – Global Analyst Online / IPS
Elizabeth Eames Roebling
NAJAYO, Jul 9 (IPS) – If you are a woman in prison anywhere in the world, you would be fortunate to be in one of the new model prisons in the Dominican Republic.
Sitting at the table in the air-conditioned library at the women’s [...]
Global News Blog
Sunday, May 03, 2009
B.RAMAN
During the current election campaign, there has been a debate initiated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the action taken or not taken to identify the secret overseas bank accounts of Indian nationals and to bring the money back for use in our development projects. The BJP and the [...]
Global News Blog
Sunday, May 03, 2009
By Nicola Nasser*
Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to be the third pontiff to visit the Holy Land from 8 – 15 May, following in the footsteps of Paul VI in 1964 and John Paul II in 2000, on a mission officially described as a “pilgrimage” and one of “peace and [...]
Global News Blog / IPS
Julio Godoy interviews climate expert LAMBERT SCHNEIDER* – Tierramérica
BERLIN, May 2 (IPS) – The Clean Development Mechanism established under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change ”should go beyond pure compensation” and produce ”a net atmospheric benefit,” argues Lambert Schneider, an expert with Germany’s Institute for Applied Ecology.
The CDM [...]
Global News Blog / IPS
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 30 (IPS) – Asia has long been touted as the world’s largest and most populous continent with over 4.1 billion people, accounting for more than 60 percent of the global population.
But according to the recently-released Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific, fertility rates in [...]
Global News Blog / IPS
By Zoltán Dujisin
BUDAPEST, Apr 30 (IPS) – The situation of Roma in the Czech Republic has always been bad, but growing right-wing extremism has taken tensions to new levels, driving many to seek asylum in Canada.
Roma organisations have called on those Roma who feel unsafe in the country to leave. There [...]
Global News Blog / IPS
Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Apr 30 (IPS) – Delegations from the rival Fatah and Hamas organisations have again failed in Cairo to bridge their differences meant to usher in a Palestinian unity government, but this has in no way slowed inroads which the Islamist movement has been making [...]
Global News Blog / IPS
Mallika Aryal
Gorkha Bajar, NEPAL, Apr 30 (IPS) – Maoist hammer and sickle graffiti from last year’s constituent assembly (CA) election is still fresh on the walls all around Gorkha Bajar. This historic town, some 150 km west of the capital Kathmandu, used to be a Maoist stronghold during the [...]
Global News Blog / IPS
Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Apr 30 (IPS) – A new collection of children’s books in Argentina shows women in jobs and professions that are traditionally held by men, challenging sexist preconceptions.
The six books, recommended for children over seven, are ”My Mom Is a Taxi Driver”, ”My Mom Is a [...]
Global News Blog / IPS
Stephen Leahy
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Apr 30 (IPS) – Climate scientists are calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels because humans are now pumping so much carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere that the ‘2-degree-C climate balloon’ will burst otherwise, new studies show.
That 2-degree C climate balloon has a maximum capacity [...]
Global News Blog / IPS
By Erin Cunningham
RAFAH, Apr 29 (IPS) – Pick-up trucks speed westward on the Barth highway that flanks the Israeli border in Egypt’s North Sinai region, stacked high with cartons of petrol. They are headed “for Gaza”, the Bedouin residents of Barth village say – through the tunnels that burrow under the [...]
