Languages
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
News and Views from the Global South
Analysis
HAITI-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Relations, after Balaguer
Economic pressures and the pull of democracy may help bring about rapprochement between Haiti and its closest neighbour, the Dominican Republic -- regardless of the outcome of Thursday's presidential elections.FOOD-HEALTH: In a Market Driven World, Profits Take Precedence
The recent revelations about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease and its transmission to human beings, reflect a fundamental flaw in today's social and economic systems.DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-POLITICS: Balaguer Still Pulls The Strings
Most of the three million Dominicans who will elect a new president next Thursday will make an unusual choice.DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-POLITICS: Balaguer Still Pulls The Strings
Most of the three million Dominicans who will elect a new president next Thursday will make an unusual choice.AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Agrarian Reform on Front Burner Again
The massacre of 19 landless peasants by Brazilian police last month has set the flags flying over the political left again and forced President Fernando Cardoso to bring the issue of land reform onto the front burner.LATIN AMERICA-POLITICS: Rebels Retreat as Ideologies Crumble
Guerilla movements that challenged authorities across Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s have failed to survive the sun setting on the socialist utopia and today are either disbanding or are in the process of disappearing.PAKISTAN-IRAN: Rift over Afghanistan Bad for Islamabad
A number of high-profile visitors from Iran have come calling on Pakistan this year. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati has dropped in three times in the last 16 weeks, but not even he has been able to heal a rift between the two neighbours over Afghanistan./RELIGIOUS BULLETIN 1/ PALESTINE: After the Historic Vote Come the Hard Questions
This week's historic vote by the Palestinian National Council (PNC) to turn a page in history by abandoning the effective dismantling of the state of Israel, is only a necessary -- not a sufficient -- condition for peace.RUSSIA-CHINA: An Alliance That Crosses Old Boundaries
Once bitter Cold War rivals, Russia and China are today moving toward what analysts in Beijing and Moscow view as a potentially powerful geo-political alliance that will be closely watched by Western and Asian governments.RUSSIA-CHINA: An Alliance That Crosses Old Boundaries
Once bitter Cold War rivals, Russia and China are today moving toward what analysts in Beijing and Moscow view as a potentially powerful geo-political alliance that will be closely watched by Western and Asian governments.RUSSIA-CHINA: An Alliance That Crosses Old Boundaries
Once bitter Cold War rivals, Russia and China are today moving toward what analysts in Beijing and Moscow view as a potentially powerful geo-political alliance that will be closely watched by Western and Asian governments.RUSSIA-CHINA: An Alliance That Crosses Old Boundaries
Once bitter Cold War rivals, Russia and China are today moving toward what analysts in Beijing and Moscow view as a potentially powerful geo-political alliance that will be closely watched by Western and Asian governments.RUSSIA-CHINA: An Alliance That Crosses Old Boundaries
Once bitter Cold War rivals, Russia and China are today moving toward what analysts in Beijing and Moscow view as a potentially powerful geo-political alliance that will be closely watched by Western and Asian governments.RUSSIA-CHINA: An Alliance That Crosses Old Boundaries
Once bitter Cold War rivals, Russia and China are today moving toward what analysts in Beijing and Moscow view as a potentially powerful geo-political alliance that will be closely watched by Western and Asian governments.RUSSIA-CHINA: An Alliance That Crosses Old Boundaries
Once bitter Cold War rivals, Russia and China are today moving toward what analysts in Beijing and Moscow view as a potentially powerful geo-political alliance that will be closely watched by Western and Asian governments.RUSSIA-CHINA: An Alliance That Crosses Old Boundaries
Once bitter Cold War rivals, Russia and China are today moving toward what analysts in Beijing and Moscow view as a potentially powerful geo-political alliance that will be closely watched by Western and Asian governments.DISARMAMENT-INDIA: Nuclear Bomb an Election issue
India's main opposition leader Atal Behari Vajpayee declared in a recent TV interview recently that if he wins the coming elections his government will make the nuclear bomb.UNITED STATES-JAPAN: Big Brother on Security, Not as Big on Trade
When Bill Clinton flew out of Japan Thursday, he left behind a battalion of U.S. troops whose continuing presence reflects an unsettled region, and a team of trade negotiators still battling to resolve bilateral disputes.LATAM-CRIME: Vigilante Activity Increases
Increased incidents of crime throughout Latin America, and the real or perceived inability of government institutions to take counter action, has encouraged a rise in private defence initiatives - including vigilantism, according to a regional survey.CENTRAL AMERICA-ECONOMY: Growth in South Good for All
The countries of the South will receive the largest chunk of foreign investment and see the highest rates of growth in the coming years and Central America, moving at its own pace, can expect to reap its, economists here believe.ASIA-POLITICS: S.Korean Trials Send a Message to South-east Asia
The trials of two former South Korean dictators may well have implications for South-east Asian nations with a history of military regimes, and that have tried to mirror Seoul's state-sponsored economic development model.« Previous Page — Next Page »
The Week with IPS
NEXT STOP - SDGs
Tracking global progress towards a sustainable world
Tracking global progress towards a sustainable world
