The Week With IPS 8/21

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	The Future Tastes Like Chocolate for Rural Salvadoran Women Edgardo Ayala Idalia Ramón and 10 other rural Salvadoran women take portions of the freshly ground chocolate paste, weigh it, and make chocolates in the shapes of stars, rectangles or bells before packaging them for sale. “This is a completely new source of work for us, we didn’t know anything about cacao or ... MORE > >
	Opinion: Misinformation Hides Real Dimension of Greek “Bailout” Roberto Savio The long saga on Greece is apparently over – European institutions have given Athens a third bailout of 86 billion euros which, combined with the previous two, makes a grand total of 240 billion euros. Roberto Savio There is no doubt that the large majority of European citizens are convinced ... MORE > >
	Opinion: The Writing on the Western Wall Joseph Chamie The writing on the Western Wall is evident to most Israelis: “דמוגרפיה היא גורל” or “demography is destiny”. Those unwilling to acknowledge the prophetic message are either deceiving themselves or simply ignoring it in order to avoid facing the implications of demography for Israel’s future. In ... MORE > >
	Native Protest Camp in Argentine Capital Fights for Land and Visibility Fabiana Frayssinet The indigenous camp installed six months ago in the Argentine capital is virtually invisible to passersby who drive or walk quickly around it. The protesters are demanding the return of their land in the northeastern province of Formosa, which has not been fully demarcated and is caught in a web of ... MORE > >
	Time to Work Out a Plan C for Greece Pavlos Georgiadis Just over a month ago, Greek citizens were asked to go to the polls for a referendum that posed the country with an unprecedented existential dilemma and challenged the EU with the possibility of its collapse. The question that shook the world was a choice between a Plan A - more of the same, ... MORE > >
	Presalt Oil Drives Technological Development in Brazil Mario Osava The extraction of deepwater oil, the most abundant kind in Brazil, is costly but foments technological and industrial development, requiring increasingly complex production equipment and techniques. One challenge is the water extracted with the oil, the proportion of which grows with the age of ... MORE > >
	Latin America Should Lead in Protecting the Planet’s Oceans Marianela Jarroud Latin America should assume a position of global leadership by adopting effective measures to protect the oceans, which are threatened by illegal fishing, the impacts of climate change, and pollution caused by acidification and plastic waste. “The whole world is lagging in terms of effective ... MORE > >
	Kashmir: Where a Pilgrimage Threatens a Delicate Ecosystem Athar Parvaiz As he struggled to find a section of the stream clean enough to rinse off his muddy shoes, Mohan Kumar, a Hindu pilgrim on his way to the holy Amarnath shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir, gazed with despair over the filth that lay thick on the landscape. 3What should have been a ... MORE > >
	Designed to Fail: Gaza’s Reconstruction Plan Charlie Hoyle The rubble of twisted concrete and metal bakes in the hot Mediterranean sun of a regional heat wave. Eight months ago, the infrastructural devastation in the Gaza Strip was the same, except floodwater and freezing winter temperatures swept over the heaped remnants of people’s homes and ... MORE > >
	Clan Wars Increase Displacement, Hinder Development in Papua New Guinea Catherine Wilson The charred foundations are all that is left of the homes that made up Kenemote village in the mountainous Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific Islands. For the past four and a half months a tribal war has raged between four clans of the Kintex tribe who are ... MORE > >
	Zimbabwe's Forest Carbon Programme Not All It Seems Ignatius Banda The efficacy of attempts to sustainably manage forests and conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in Zimbabwe is increasingly coming under scrutiny as new research warns that the politics of access and control over forests and their carbon is challenging conventional understanding. It all ... MORE > >