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IVP524 September 2018 PDF magazine

robm — 2018-09-30T19:52:00Z

IVP524 September 2018 PDF magazine

- IV524 - September 2018 / PDF

The myth of Direct Foreign Investment

Lal Khan — 2018-09-30T08:44:30Z

Even small DFIs that trickle into Pakistan come at exorbitantly high costs for the oppressed masses of this country

- IV524 - September 2018 / Economy, Pakistan

“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent”? Some hasty reflections on the current crisis

Martín Mosquera — 2018-09-29T07:44:13Z

The current situation is visibly unstable, fragile, uncertain. Any analysis runs the risk of getting old quickly. There are several factors provoking social and political instability: the worsening economic crisis, increasing social conflict and the (now slightly obscured) “Centeno affair” with increasing political and judicial consequences.

- IV524 - September 2018 / Argentina

Brazilian Women Unite Against Far-Right Presidential Candidate

2018-09-28T21:41:29Z

A broad coalition of women has come together to protest the Presidential candidacy of far-right politician, Jair Bolsonaro. Organized by the parties of the left, women's organizations, and some members of liberal parties, this coalition will march in cities across Brazil on 29 September.

- IV524 - September 2018 / Brazil, Women

Tackling the scourge of terror

Lal Khan — 2018-09-28T07:04:49Z

The so-called Islamic leaders play on the anti-imperialist sentiments of the masses to expand their social, political and financial base

- IV524 - September 2018 / Pakistan

On Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Europe, and especially migrants

Julien Salingue — 2018-09-27T06:07:05Z

“European elections: France Insoumise shifts a bit": this is the title of an article published in L'Humanité following the “Amfis” of France Insoumise , organized in Marseille from 23 to 26 August. “Shifts” which confirm that the Mélenchon version of “insubmission” is increasingly directed towards the quest for “respectability” and the claim to being “responsible". A tendency that is unfortunately confirmed, among other things, on the question of migrants.

- IV524 - September 2018 / France, Migration

Tropical Forests Are Flipping From Storing Carbon to Releasing It

Sam Eaton — 2018-09-26T06:53:57Z

Illegal logging and land seizures are driving this ominous yet overlooked scientific trend.

- IV524 - September 2018 / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Climate

The Challenges for the Left in Europe and the Eurozone

Éric Toussaint — 2018-09-25T05:27:43Z

As from May 2010 the question of the debt became a central concern for Greece and for the rest of the Eurozone. The first programme imposed by the Troika provoked a brutal increase in Greek public debt. This was also the case in various forms in Ireland (2010), Portugal (2011), Spain (2012) and Cyprus (2013).

- IV524 - September 2018 / European Union

Oslo Accords accelerated the process of colonization of the Palestinian territories

Gilbert Achcar — 2018-09-24T07:27:22Z

25 years after the Oslo Accords, the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is at a standstill. Benjamin Netanyahu's Israeli government – the most right-wing in the history of the Zionist state – does not want to hear about peace negotiations. The Palestinian leadership seems incapable of digesting the failure of this dynamic launched by Yasser Arafat. The main mediator, the United States, has – with the arrival of Donald Trump – broken with its traditional diplomacy of not taking a decision that would stop the peace process. How can one explain this development, which increases the imbalance of power between Israelis and Palestinians and removes any prospect of peace? Gilbert Achcar in an interview with L'Orient-Le Jour gave some clues to understanding the turn of events since the Oslo agreements.

- IV524 - September 2018 / Palestine, Israel

Price hikes and jobs: How NGOs affect the economy in Cox's Bazar

Linah Alsaafin — 2018-09-23T05:15:12Z

Local Bangladeshis in host communities near Rohingya camps complain of rise in cost of living but others see benefits.

- IV524 - September 2018 / Migration, Bangladesh, Myanmar