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Shiva: Globalization And Its Fall Out
Commentary, March, 16 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
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Globalization was imposed on the world with a promise of peace and prosperity. Instead we are faced with war and economic crisis. Not only has prosperity proved elusive, the minimal economic securities of people and countries are fast disappearing.
Hoodbhoy: Towards Theocracy?
Znet Article, March, 15 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
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For 20 years or more, a few of us in Pakistan have been desperately sending out SOS messages, warning of terrible times to come. Nevertheless, none anticipated how quickly and accurately our dire predictions would come true. It is a small matter t...
Raina: The Spectacular Return of Gandhi's Spectacles
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Badri Raina
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As the premier Gandhian, Vinobha Bhave, was to write of Gandhi's equation with Scientific Socialism: "Socialism wishes to advance by setting class against class, Gandhism by cutting across classes."
Faizi: Coca Cola/Plachimada: An open rejoinder to Mr Shashi Tharoor
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
S. Faizi
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An open rejoinder to Mr Shashi Tharoor
Raina: The High-Minded Illiteracy Of the Indian Elite
Znet Article, February, 27 2009
Badri Raina
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The atavistic blood-lust of India's corporate-media elite has again come to the fore.
Ali: Change it’s hard to believe in
Znet Article, February, 22 2009
Mahir Ali
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The ceasefire in the Pakistani vallety of Swat and the prospect of a peace deal between the provincial government and Maulana Fazlullah’s Taliban faction has spurred contradictory reactions, ranging from expressions of joy, relief and tentative ...
Sainath: The Largest Wave Of Suicides In History
Znet Article, February, 13 2009
P. Sainath
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The number of farmers who have committed suicide in India between 1997 and 2007 now stands at a staggering 182,936. Close to two-thirds of these suicides have occurred in five states (India has 28 states and seven union territories). The Big 5 –...
Tn: India legally obliged to prevent GoSL's genocide against Tamils- Prof. Boyle
Znet Article, February, 06 2009
Tamilnet -- Tn
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Emphasizing that under Common Article 1 to the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949, India has the obligation "to respect and to ensure respect" for these Conventions "in all circumstances," Professor Francis Boyle, professor of international law at th...
Podur: The Mumbai Attacks and Regional Implications
Zmag Article, February, 01 2009
Justin Podur
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A troubling trend in manufactured "security dilemmas"
Raina: Germany, 1933 / Gujarat, 2009
Znet Article, January, 22 2009
Badri Raina
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Just the other day, at the “Vibrant Gujarat†conclave in Ahmedabad, two of India's leading industrialists, Anil Ambani and Mittal, speculated from public platform what a radiantly developed country India could become were Narendra Modi t...
Shiva: Toxic Genes and Toxic Papers : IFPRI covering up the link between Bt. Cotton and Farmers Suicides
Commentary, January, 20 2009
Vandana2 Shiva
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The financial meltdown that started in September 2008 was a result of the investments based on "toxic" paper - worthless financial instruments traded for super profits, even while they failed to reflect any value in the real economy. "Toxic Assets...
Mishra: The Credit Card Dragnet
Znet Article, January, 16 2009
Girish Mishra
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In Economics, by ‘money’, we mean anything that is accepted for clearing a debt.
Raina: Satyam
Znet Article, January, 13 2009
Badri Raina
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The “breaking news†now is that the global machismo of India’s corporates has indeed arrived at those pinnacles of fraud without which no corporate prowess may be taken seriously, much like the street-corner temple that only the neighbourhoo...
Siddiqui: Politics and Religion in Modern India
Znet Article, January, 08 2009
Kalim Siddiqui
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After the tragic events in November 2008 in Mumbai media and the BJP and its Hindu militant allies have presented a simplistic understanding of the issues of terrorism.
Raina: Omar Abdullah
Znet Article, January, 07 2009
Badri Raina
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The people of Jammu & Kashmir have been justly lauded for the resoluteness with which they came out to vote in the recent elections to the state Assembly.
Prashad: India's Reckless Road To Washington Through Tel Aviv
Commentary, December, 27 2008
Vijay Prashad
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On Thursday, November 27, in the middle of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Imran Babar, one of the terrorists, called India TV from Nariman House. He used a cellphone that belonged to Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the co-director of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...
Raina: India's 2009 Election
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Badri Raina
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In India a general election to parliament is due early next year, and different Indians must desire to see different things happen.
Bidwai: India's New Anti-Terror Laws Draconian Say Activists
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
Praful Bidwai
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Following the late November terror attacks in Mumbai, India has passed two tough laws being seen by rights activists as potentially eroding the country’s federal structure and limiting fundamental liberties.
Kumar: Portents of insurance amendments
Znet Article, December, 22 2008
M. p. veerendra Kumar
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The Life Insurance Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2008, being tabled in Parliament proposes primarily to raise the minimum capital from Rs. 5 crore to Rs. 100 crore, with a provision for further enhancement. The real intention behind this proposal ...
Fitzgerald: From the CIA to the ISI to the Lashkar-e-Taiba
Znet Article, December, 18 2008
Paul Fitzgerald
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After early speculation that the recent Mumbai attacks were linked to Pakistan, a former U.S. Defense Department official now asserts that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) had a hand in training the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists.
