Economy & Trade

Anti-Fracking Movement Alarmed at Trump’s Focus on Fossil Fuels

By Emilio Godoy

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, USA , Jan 4 2017 (IPS) - Earl Hatley, a descendant of the Cherokee/Delaware tribe, has witnessed the consequences of using hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” on his native land to produce shale gas.

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Limitless Cigars and Rum for U.S. Tourists in Cuba

By Rose Delaney2

ROME, Oct 23 2016 (IPS) - After more than a half-century of a commercial, financial and economic embargo, U.S.-Cuban trade relations took a significant step forward this month.

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Ships Bring Your Coffee, Snack and TV Set, But Also Pests and Diseases

By Baher Kamal

Some $1.1 trillion worth of agricultural products are traded internationally each year. Photo: FAO

ROME, Aug 23 2016 (IPS) - “Every evening, millions of people all over the world will settle into their armchairs to watch some TV after a hard day at work. Many will have a snack or something to drink…

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TPPA could be discarded due to US political dynamics

By Martin Khor

PENANG, Aug 17 2016 (IPS) - No country was more active in pushing for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). In the five years of negotiations, the United States cajoled, persuaded and pressurised its trade partners take on board its issues and positions.

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The -Sad- US Nominations

By Johan Galtung

ALICANTE, Spain, Aug 2 2016 (IPS) - The US mountain, so rich in human talent, labored and produced the two dwarfs for the huge job. A radical Republican strongman[i] and a conventional Democrat, disliked by 62% and 67%–bad for electing the president of a country that still puts some stamp on the world.

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Mainstream Media Are Betraying Humanity

By John Scales Avery

OSLO, Aug 1 2016 (IPS) - Physicians have a sacred duty to their patients, whose lives are in their hands. The practice of medicine is not a business like any other business. There are questions of trust and duty involved. The physician’s goal must not be to make as much money as possible, but rather to save lives.

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Why I Started SMART ALEC – Lobbying for the Public Good

By Matthew Charles Cardinale

PORTLAND, Oregon, Jun 28 2016 (IPS) - For many years, as a reporter, including for IPS, I wrote about the dominance of a giant, corporate-funded lobbying organization called ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), on public policy in the United States.

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Brexit – Perceptions and Repercussions in the Americas

By Joaquin Roy

MIAMI, Jun 27 2016 (IPS) - The hopes of many of those who confidently expected the British electorate to vote, by a slender margin, for the country to remain in the EU have been dashed. All that is left to do now is to ponder the causes and background of this regrettable event, and consider its likely consequences, especially for relations with the United States.

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Making Sustainability Part of the Corporate DNA

By Phillip Kaeding

Companies, governments and non-profit actors agree that economic growth and sustainable development have to go hand in hand to shape our increasingly globalised world in a fair way. Yet a meeting of leaders from the business, government and non-profit sectors at the UN this week showed that there is still a long way to go in […]

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Is it in Europe’s Interest to Push Russia into China’s Arms?

By Roberto Savio

ROME, May 23 2016 (IPS) - No mention in the media of the dangerous increase in tension between Europe and Russia. But Nato has just made operational in Romania a missile system, the ABM, which the US has declared will protect from “rogue” states, like Iran.

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Anti-Fracking Movement Alarmed at Trump’s Focus on Fossil Fuels

Limitless Cigars and Rum for U.S. Tourists in Cuba

Ships Bring Your Coffee, Snack and TV Set, But Also Pests and Diseases

TPPA could be discarded due to US political dynamics

The -Sad- US Nominations

Mainstream Media Are Betraying Humanity

Why I Started SMART ALEC – Lobbying for the Public Good

Brexit – Perceptions and Repercussions in the Americas

Making Sustainability Part of the Corporate DNA

Is it in Europe’s Interest to Push Russia into China’s Arms?

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