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Vieques Goes from Bombs to Beets

By Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
A decade after the United States Navy’s departure, the Puerto Rican island town of Vieques faces new challenges, and the rebirth of its agriculture sector is hampered by a legacy of toxic military trash that has uncertain consequences.

Iron Hell in Brazil’s Amazon Region

By Mario Osava
“My nephew was eight years old when he stepped in the ‘munha’ [charcoal dust] and burned his legs up to the knees,” said Angelita Alves de Oliveira from a corner of Brazil’s Amazonia that has become a deadly hazard for local people.

Kenya’s Empty Bread Basket

By Miriam Gathigah
Jane Njeri from the semi-arid lower Mukurweini district in Kenya’s Central Province has taken to boiling wild roots to feed her five children.

Bursting the ‘Blood Bubble’

By Pierre Klochendler
The longstanding Israeli practice of labelling settlement products “Made in Israel” is leading to mounting opposition to the occupation.

Small Ray of Hope in Mexico’s Forced Disappearances

By Emilio Godoy
Tita Radilla is waiting, somewhat sceptically, for Mexican military personnel accused of carrying out forced disappearances to be brought before civilian courts. It is a demand that has spanned the past five decades.

Doctors Resist Deadly Vaccine

By Ranjit Devraj
A spate of sudden infant deaths following vaccination in India has prompted leading paediatricians to call for stronger regulatory mechanisms to evaluate new vaccines for safety and efficacy before their acceptance into the national immunisation programme.

Brazil’s ‘Rolezinhos’ Want Room in the Palaces of Consumerism

By Fabiana Frayssinet
They poured into shopping malls en masse to have some fun. But the reaction, a mixture of fear, admiration and heavy-handed repression, brought a new youth movement into being in Brazil: the “rolezinhos.”

Egypt’s Generals Face a Watery Battle

By Shelly Kittleson
Heavy reliance on water intensive crops, a major upstream dam project for the Nile basin, and rising groundwater levels pushing at pharaoh-era monuments will be pressing issues for the next Egyptian president - whether military or civilian.

U.S. Selling Coal Mining Rights at Undervalued Prices

By Bryant Harris
The U.S. government is violating federal leasing policies when it sells land to certain coal-mining companies, according to a new audit from an official watchdog agency.

Misread Telexes Led Analysts to See Iran Nuclear Arms Programme

By Gareth Porter
When Western intelligence agencies began in the early 1990s to intercept telexes from an Iranian university to foreign high technology firms, intelligence analysts believed they saw the first signs of military involvement in Iran’s nuclear programme. That suspicion led to U.S. intelligence assessments over the next decade that Iran was secretly pursuing nuclear weapons.

After Slowdown, Global Fight for Land Rights at Tipping Point

By Carey L. Biron
Global trends towards a strengthening of legal rights over land for local and indigenous communities appear to have slowed significantly in recent years, leading some analysts to warn that the fight for local control over forests has reached an inflection point with a new danger of backtracking on previous progress.

Carbon-Neutral Costa Rica: A Climate Change Mirage?

By Diego Arguedas Ortiz
Meeting Costa Rica’s self-imposed goal of being the first country in the world to achieve carbon neutrality by 2021 will depend on the priority given this aim by the winner of the second round of the presidential elections in April.

Saving the Tiny Island of Petite Martinique

By Peter Richards
Sanchez is a small central business district in Petite Martinique, the tiny island that forms part of the tri-nation state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

OP-ED: Egypt’s Revolution Teeters as Sisi Seeks the Presidency

By Emile Nakhleh
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is set to run for president and is expected to win handily. The ruling junta and the interim government have taken several steps to make this happen.

Not Enough Money to Bring Peace to CAR

By Matthew Newsome
There are growing concerns that the massive funding crisis for peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic (CAR) will jeopardise any prospect of restoring stability to the country. 

Pakistan Caught Between Talking and Fighting

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Whether to make war or peace with the Taliban has become a dilemma for the Pakistani government.

Advocacy Groups Split on Republican Immigration Guidelines

By Bryant Harris
Pro-immigration reform advocates here are seeking to capitalise on new federal momentum on the issue after conservative lawmakers ended months of dithering late last week and released an initial set of principles that they would be interested in pursuing in broader negotiations.

U.S. Urged to Conclude Longstanding Review on Landmines

By Carey L. Biron
The U.S. government is being urged to conclude a review of national policy on landmines that has dragged on for more than four years, a lag that some say has indirectly led to the injury or death of more than 16,000 people.

Moral Monday Protests Inspire Truthful Tuesdays

By Matthew Charles Cardinale
Moral Monday, the populist movement in North Carolina that saw a diverse coalition of thousands of progressive activists descend upon the state legislature, is now spreading throughout the U.S. South.

Prosecution of Forced Sterilisations in Peru Still Possible

By Milagros Salazar
Shelving the case of the forced sterilisations of more than 2,000 women in Peru during the Alberto Fujimori regime was a surprise move by the prosecutor in charge. What happened? An IPS investigation found that legal avenues to pursue justice have not been exhausted.

The Longer Peace Takes, the Worse it Gets for South Sudanese

By Andrew Green
South Sudan is taking the first steps in what promises to be a long process of healing the fractures that prompted more than five weeks of fighting, potentially leaving thousands of people dead and wounded and displacing 863,000 others.
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