IDN InDepthNews informs on topics related to globalization, global governance and international cooperation http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=NA Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:41:36 +0100 http://indepthnews.net/images/rechts.jpg http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=NA 292 117 IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters de-de rjaura@globalommedia.com(Ramesh Jaura) jbusse@globalommedia.com(Joerg-Werner Busse) 60 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-30%2001:41:36&key2=1 By Irvin Studin* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint TORONTO (IDN) - Canada should be a country of 100 million people. It has been said before. Apocryphally, by Winston Churchill himself; more recently, by the countless immigrants, newcomers and visitors to the country who are able, it must be observed, to see in Canada what incumbent Canadians oftentimes do not: that Canada could be a proper world power -- a country of global consequence -- if only… http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-30%2001:41:36&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-28%2022:45:29&key2=1 By Martin Khor* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) - The 20 billion U.S. dollar put aside by BP to pay for the effects of the Gulf oil spill contrasts with the lack of accountability of big firms that cause environmental harm in developing countries. In a widely publicised move in June, the United States President Barrack Obama succeeded in getting the oil company BP to set aside $20 billion into a fund to meet claims for compensating losses arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is extraordinary that a giant company has been pressurised by a government to agree to pay so much. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-28%2022:45:29&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-25%2020:45:15&key2=1 By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BERLIN (IDN) - One anecdote being repeatedly told these days is that some 20 years ago, the then U.S. foreign minister James Baker, angry with the Israeli government of the time for the lack of progress in the Middle East peace talks, gave his direct telephone number to his colleague in Tel Aviv, and urged him to call. "But you only call me when you are serious about peace," Baker reportedly said. Even though the Israeli government of the time and the ones that followed were almost never "serious about peace" -- with the sole and honourable exception of Yitzhak Rabin in the early 1990s . . . http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-25%2020:45:15&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-17%2010:52:41&key2=1 By Petra Ramatowski IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WARSAW (IDN) - Backed by the U.S. and France, Poland is set to tread the nuclear path and hopes to start generating atomic power by 2021. Presently, coal accounts for over 93 percent of the eastern European country's electricity, demand for which is expected to double by 2025. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-17%2010:52:41&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-06%2015:06:21&key2=1 By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TOKYO (IDN) - Laos, a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, has made significant strides in combating the scourge of illicit opium production and addiction, says a new report by the United Nations, but warns of serious problems arising from the country becoming a transit route for transnational criminal syndicates. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-06%2015:06:21&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-29%2013:11:24&key2=1 By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - General Stanley McChrystals removal from his position of pre-eminent military leadership in Afghanistan has deflected attention from the continuing need for a sober, non-rancorous national debate on the war in Afghanistan. That, too, will come, however, for who can forget that McChrystals fall from grace took place in June, the same month in which his strategy appeared to be running out of gas. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-29%2013:11:24&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-17%2011:35:09&key2=1 By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Less than 24 hours after President Barack Obama delivered an address to the nation on the relentless consequences of the BP (British Petroleum) disaster in the Gulf of Mexico -- a disaster that has already adversely affected four Gulf states -- BP management cried "uncle". They made a passable show of contrition and went along with Obama's demand for generosity. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-17%2011:35:09&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-16%2020:20:45&key2=1 By Jeremy Scahill* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NEW YORK (IDN) - The United States military is in the process of taking bids from private war contractors to secure and ship massive amounts of U.S. military equipment through sensitive areas of Pakistan into Afghanistan, where it will then be distributed to various U.S. Forward Operating Bases and other facilities. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-16%2020:20:45&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-13%2000:39:23&key2=1 By Justin Akers Chacón IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis OAKLAND (IDN) - "Can you hear us now, Mexico? Can you hear us? This land is not your land, this land is our land," proclaimed Atlanta talk radio host Larry Wachs, whipping the crowd of 5,000 into a frenzy. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-13%2000:39:23&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-12%2017:16:23&key2=1 By J. Chandler IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TORONTO (IDN) - At least one woman dies every 90 seconds from pregnancy-related causes and another 20 suffer infection or disability, while four million newborns die every year. These grim numbers actually represent improvements over the last 20 years, during which many international gatherings have pledged investments in women that failed to materialize. The gatherings included the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, the 1995 Beijing International Conference on Women, the Monterey Consensus 2003, the 2004 Paris Declaration . . . http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-12%2017:16:23&key2=1