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Shrivastava: Towards corporate city-states?
Znet Article, February, 11 2008
Aseem Shrivastava
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We are used to thinking of the world in terms of nation-states and, in the era of globalization, have heard all too often from various quarters that they are on the decline, as economic integration of markets across the globe grows rapidly. Howeve...
Shrivastava: As India goes global the public goes private
Znet Article, April, 05 2007
Aseem Shrivastava
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Picture this. At an air-show in Los Angeles one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world, British Aerospace, invites Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft to have a go at flying one of the latest models of their Hawk fighter aircraft. Would the Americ...
Shrivastava: Development through industrialization?
Znet Article, March, 10 2007
Aseem Shrivastava
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Part I “You can’t save land and water unless you can save agriculture and forests.†- Prafullah Samantara, an activist from Orissa, speaking at the National Convention on Corporate Land-Grab at the Indian Social Institute...
Shrivastava: (Not) OK TaTa!
Znet Article, December, 08 2006
Aseem Shrivastava
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“Will I be allowed to harvest the paddy that is still growing in my field or will the police attack me again?†- Bharati Das, who was brutally assaulted by the West Bengal Police in her own home last week because she resisted the...
Shrivastava: India on 20 cents a day
Znet Article, November, 26 2006
Aseem Shrivastava
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The World Bank - which has to be applauded for having made the first such attempt started making international comparisons of poverty only about two decades back. For obvious reasons of convenience it developed two simple notions of poverty. The U...
Shrivastava: Civilization and compassion at the dawn of the twenty-first century
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Aseem Shrivastava
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Civilization is on a mission from God to free the world from the evil of tyranny and bring democracy and human rights to all peoples of the planet. Presumably, there is human concern and compassion behind such a quest, more grand than any conceive...
Shrivastava: Civil Compassion?
Znet Article, November, 04 2005
Aseem Shrivastava
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Civilization is on a mission from God to free the world from the evil of tyranny and bring democracy and human rights to all peoples of the planet. Presumably, there is human concern and compassion behind such a quest, more grand than any conceive...
Shrivastava: The Next Imperial Lunacy
Znet Article, August, 14 2004
Aseem Shrivastava
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"My idea of our civilization is that it is a shabby poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meanness, and hypocrisies. As for the word, I hate the sound of it, for it conveys a lie; and as for the thing itself, I wish it was in h...
Shrivastava: Jai Kisan: Does India Have To Box Before Neo-liberal Bosses?
Znet Article, July, 06 2004
Aseem Shrivastava
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Jai Kisan: Does India Have To Box Before Neo-liberal Bosses?
Shrivastava: Jai Kisan: Farmers Decide the Indian Election
Znet Article, July, 06 2004
Aseem Shrivastava
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“Common sense is, after all, very uncommon.†- Mark Twain With the 2004 General Election results, the kisans (farmers) of India have tarred the BJP’s “India Shining†billboards and declared...
Shrivastava: A Modest Atonement For War Crimes?
Znet Article, May, 18 2004
Aseem Shrivastava
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Those who presume to dispense justice are the most unjust. With every morning’s news, more of the Iraqi iceberg of White Trash continues to emerge from the murky depths of potent depravity. Private England holding her Arab pet on a lea...
Shrivastava: Iraq Torture
Znet Article, May, 03 2004
Aseem Shrivastava
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"This is the straw that broke the camel's back for America." - Abdel-Bari Atwan, Editor Al Quds Al Arabi. Fact is stranger than fiction but fiction seems to persuade us more than facts nowadays. Readers of Franz Kafka will recall his hair-rai...
Shrivastava: The Denial of Democracy in Iraq
Znet Article, April, 27 2004
Aseem Shrivastava
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. – John Quincy Adams, Sixth US President "Be careful of what you want. You might get it!" This is the sobering...
