Articles by IPS
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MAYHEM IN GAZA, RELIEF IN HAITI
Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler – IPS, Terraviva Europe,
22 Jan 2010
A week after the devastating Haiti earthquake, Israelis watched proudly as their TV channels showed the New York Fire Department rushing two young boys, extricated from the rubble of a building, to a field hospital set up by the Israeli army in Port-au-Prince. On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers from the special Home Front Command emergency unit […]
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Ranjit Devraj – IPS, TerraViva Europe,
16 Jan 2010
As India’s central government begins a series of public meetings across the country this month on the commercial release of genetically modified (GM) brinjal – or eggplant – in this country, activists and farmers’ groups are mobilising to oppose such a plan. The meetings are a response by Union Minister for Environment Jairam Ramesh to […]
→ read full articleINSIDE THE MILITARY MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: IMPACTS ON MOVEMENTS FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Profs. Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff – Dissident Voice,
27 Dec 2009
Among the most important corporate media censored news stories of the past decade, one must be that over one million people have died because of the United States military invasion and occupation of Iraq. This, of course, does not include the number of deaths from the first Gulf War nor the ensuing sanctions placed upon […]
→ read full articleU.N. AFFIRMS ISRAELI-HAMAS WAR CRIMES REPORT
Thalif Deen – IPS,
8 Nov 2009
The vote was 114 in favour and 18 against, with 44 abstentions. The 18 countries that voted against the resolution included the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Israel.A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear […]
→ read full articleCOULD REGULATION EASE FEARS OVER LAND GRABS?
Busani Bafana - IPS,
28 Oct 2009
The ‘land rush’ across Africa by international investors should be regulated to protect smallholder farmers from deals that could leave them landless and hungry.Farmer organisations, civil society representatives and researchers at a debate at the European Development Days expressed concern about the impact of selling or leasing large tracts of land to foreign governments and […]
→ read full article9/11 TRUTH. AN AMERICAN ENIGMA.
Prof. Peter Phillips,
21 Sep 2009
A Message to Truth Activists 9/11 has become an American enigma. For many, 9/11 remains a puzzling, inexplicable, phenomenon that defies understanding in its complexities and misinformation. Most people doubt the full truth of the 9/11 Commission’s report, but are unable to accept that people inside the government could be so evil as to allow […]
→ read full articleHOW TO RESTORE TRUTH IN MEDIA REPORTING?
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips,
14 Sep 2009
The Media Democracy Movement The late New York University media scholar Neil Postman once said about America, “We are the best entertained least informed society in the world." From Jessica Simpson’s weight and Brangelina’s escapades, to Britney Spears’ sister and the Obama’s First Puppy, Americans are fed a steady “news” diet of useless information laden […]
→ read full articleBRAZIL: WOMEN ‘PEACE WORKERS’ IN THE FAVELAS
Fabiana Frayssinet - IPS-Inter Press Service,
6 Jul 2009
It’s another day marked by gunfire in the Morro da Providencia “favela”, one of the most dangerous slums in this Brazilian city, and the only area where people can move around in relative safety is in the lower part of the neighbourhood, towards the foot of the hill. Alessandra da Cunha is one of the […]
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Dalia Acosta, Inter Press Service (IPS),
4 Jul 2009
Interview with Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raúl Castro and activist for sexual diversity rights. Renowned for her work for the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transvestite and transgender people, Mariela Castro advocates a fairer, more inclusive, and above all more participatory socialism in Cuba. Castro is head of the National Sex Education Centre (CENESEX) […]
→ read full articleAFRICA: CONTINENT WILL HAVE TO FEED EU’s ARTIFICIAL BIOFUELS DEMAND
Inter Press Service-IPS,
21 Apr 2009
Earlier in the decade, biofuels were hailed as the energy panacea, the silver bullet to solve oil shortages and abide by environmental concerns. The European Union recently took the lead in imposing the use of these liquid or gaseous fuels made from plants. But the green credentials of biofuels have since been disputed. The total […]
→ read full articleMAKING A KILLING FROM HUNGER: GLOBAL STARVATION IGNORED BY AMERICAN POLICY ELITES
Peter Phillips,
13 Nov 2008
Grain.org describes the core reasons for continuing hunger in a recent article “Making a Killing from Hunger.” It turns out that while farmers grow enough food to feed the world, commodity speculators and huge grain traders like Cargill control the global food prices and distribution. Starvation is profitable for corporations when demands for food push […]
→ read full articleTHE DAY THE WORLD DIDN?T END
Dr. Tony Phillips,
12 Oct 2008
NASA Science News Here’s what didn’t happen on Sept. 10th: The world did not end. Switching on the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of a microscopic black hole. And that black hole did not start rapidly sucking in surrounding matter faster and faster until it […]
→ read full articleROMA STUDENT OFFERS BEACON OF HOPE
Barnaby Phillips - Aljazeera Europe Correspondent,
12 Oct 2008
A few months ago, I travelled to Naples, in Italy, to report on hostility against the Roma, or Gypsy, people. Neapolitans blamed the Roma for a crimewave, and burnt down one of their camps. The story was posted on You Tube by Al Jazeera Here is a sample of some of the comments posted […]
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