Geography
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA: FROM IDEAS TO ACTION
A half-day conference on August 16, 2006, to discuss the practice of sustainable agriculture in Africa
Not working for the Yankee dollar
IPN Opinion article
The sweeping victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia's recent presidential election marks another step back in Latin America from slow liberalization and free trade toward socialism and anti-Americanism: a few U.S. corporations may suffer a little but the real victims, as ever, will be the poor.
100 NGOs from around the world unite in effort to support beleaguered civil society in Russia
IPN Press release
Freedom of expression in Turkey
IPN Opinion article
What is the defining line between a civilized and uncivilized country? In my own experience in Turkey since Nov. 19, it is freedom of expression: I have been accused of treason in the press and suspended from my university for defending the common values of civilization and re-evaluating Turkey's history.
Cold dark future for Europe – Illarionov
IPN Press release
A ‘chilly war’ has already begun, says Putin’s former advisor, in which the very basic pillars of Western society are at stake.
Why G8 could jeopardise the fate of democracy in Russia
IPN Opinion article
"A far larger battle looms over the survival of the West's basic institutions, such as the market economy, liberal democracy and human rights, which have been developed and preserved over centuries and made the West what it is.
St Petersburg is the first serious public test of whether Western leaders are serious about defending these institutions or whether they will bow to the caprices of the new energy tsars."
Fear of flying: why green alarmists are wrong
IPN Opinion article
Will cheap air travel inundate the Earth's atmosphere with dangerous greenhouse
gases unless curtailed by punitive taxes?
Europe's junk science risks African lives
IPN Opinion article
"Europe is out of step. Instead of helping Uganda save lives, the EU threatens to ban agricultural imports from Uganda, relying on junk science and protectionism to shape its public health policy. The EU has not issued any official statement on its DDT policy, preferring to issue vague threats via the media. While the EU may not be as bold as USAID by actually buying DDT, it should stop its malicious attacks on efficiency and good science."
Suits and ties demonstrate on opposite side of divide
IPN Opinion article
The Guardian writes about the Freedom to Trade demonstration in Hong Kong at the World Trade Organization meeting.
