Feature Article #1
Pakistan’s commando surrenders
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
© Copyright 2008 Susenjit Guha. All rights reserved.
By Susenjit Guha
At last the former commando has been cornered. In a real-life battle, Pervez Musharraf would have gone down under a hail of bullets or sniper fire. But in a nascent democracy like Pakistan, he just surrendered to avoid [...]
Feature Article #2
PAKISTAN: POSSIBLE POST-MUSHARRAF SCENARIOS
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Copyright © B. Raman - Chennai Center for Topical Studies
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B.RAMAN
The resignation of Gen.(retd) Pervez Musharraf’s from the post of the President of Pakistan became effective on the evening of August 18,2008. As per the Constitution, Mohammedmian Soomroo, the Chairman of the Senate, the upper House [...]
Feature Article #3
PAKISTAN: Musharraf Quits, Avoids Impeachment
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - IPSMonday, August 18, 2008
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Amir Mir
ISLAMABAD, Aug 18 (IPS) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf resigned from office on Monday ending weeks of speculation over whether he would quit or face impeachment on charges of illegally seizing power by a parliament elected [...]
Feature Article #4
THE SIMI NETWORK BEHIND AHMEDABAD BLASTS—A COLLATION
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.430
Global News BlogMonday, August 18, 2008
Copyright © B. Raman - South Asia Analysis Group
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B.RAMAN
The Gujarat Police announced on August 16,2008, the identification and arrests of 10 activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in connection with the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on July 26.2008. Nine of the arrests were made [...]
Feature Article #5
POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Civil Society Demands More From Talks
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - IPSSaturday, August 16, 2008
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Stanley Kwenda
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 16 (IPS) - A barrage of banners denouncing Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe greeted passersby in the well-manicured gardens of Johannesburg’s Sandton Convention Centre, where that country’s political crisis is high on the agenda of [...]
Feature Article #6
Q&A: ‘Innocent Persons Are Sentenced to Death’
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - IPS
Saturday, August 16, 2008
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Interview with Bikram Jeet Batra, Indian rights lawyer
NEW DELHI, Aug 16 (IPS) - There are only estimates of the number of people facing the death sentence in India. The latest official figure is for Dec. [...]
Feature Article #7
The Georgia-Russia conflict: lost territory, found nation
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog
Saturday, August 16, 2008
This article was originally published on opendemocracy.net under a Creative Commons license. Read the article in its original form.
By Donald Rayfield
The two regions at the heart of the Georgia-Russia war of August 2008 must be understood in their own terms if the problem of Georgia - and [...]
Feature Article #8
IRAQ: U.S. Officials Admit Worry over a ‘Difficult’ al-Maliki
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - IPS
Friday, August 15, 2008
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Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (IPS) - U.S. officials privately admit being concerned that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has become ”overconfident” about his government’s ability to manage without U.S. combat troops, according to an Iraq [...]
Feature Article #9
PARAGUAY: ”Today a New Country Is Born,” Says New President
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - IPS
Friday, August 15, 2008
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David Vargas
ASUNCION, Aug 15 (IPS) - Former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo was sworn in Friday as president of Paraguay in a ceremony charged with emotion that broke with protocol, promising to rebuild this impoverished [...]
Feature Article #10
China’s Jundullahs: Home-Grown Jihadis
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog
Friday, August 15, 2008
Copyright © B. Raman - Chennai Center for China Studies
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B.Raman, C3S Paper No.203 dated August 15, 2008
The phenomenon of Jundullahs (Soldiers of Allah), which refers to angry young Muslims not belonging to any organisation taking to acts of reprisal terrorism, has spread from Pakistan to the Muslim [...]
Feature Article #11
POLITICS-PARAGUAY: Rock Road Ahead for Lugo
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog - IPS
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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David Vargas
ASUNCION, Aug 14 (IPS) - Amidst anticipation and apprehension regarding the imminent political transition, Paraguay is gearing up for Friday’s inauguration of centre-left President-elect Fernando Lugo, known as the ”bishop of the poor”, [...]
Feature Article #12
Jihad for Oil
America’s dependence on oil is a vulnerability in the war on terror.
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog
Thursday, August 14, 2008
© Copyright 2008 Daveed Gartenstein-Ross. All rights reserved.
Read the article as it first appeared on the Daily Standard
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
OIL DEPENDENCE IS America’s Achilles’ heel in the battle against terrorism–a fact that has not escaped the [...]
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