April 28, 2012
“There Are Marxists in India?”: Economist Prabhat Patnaik on the Global Crisis Saturday, 28 April 2012 12:19By Robert Jensen, Dissident Voice | Interview After an engaging half-hour interview with India‘s pre-eminent Marxist economist during a conference at New York University, I told a friend about my one-on-one time with Prabhat Patnaik. “There [...]
Tags: India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Kerala, Marxism, New York University, Prabhat Patnaik, Robert Jensen, University of Cambridge
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March 30, 2012
Thirteen states in India have prevented genetically modified aubergines from being planted [GALLO/GETTY] New Delhi, India - In an interview with the journal Science, Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh chose to focus on two hazardous technologies – genetically engineered seeds and crops, and nuclear power – as vital to the progress of science in India and the “salvation [...]
Tags: Genetic engineering, Genetically modified food, India, Manmohan Singh, New Delhi, Non-governmental organization, Prime Minister of India, United States
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March 20, 2012
The Tata family, including Tata Motors chairman Ratan Tata, ‘run more than 100 companies in 80 countries’. Photograph: Denis Balibouse /Reuters There’s no escape from the corporations that run India Domestic mega-corporations’ tentacles extend into every aspect of Indian life – but no one dares speak out against them Arundhati Roy guardian.co.uk, Monday 19 March 2012 [...]
Tags: Asia, India, Infosys, Mukesh, Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries, Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses, Tata Steel
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March 13, 2012
A mobile unit gives a child polio drops in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Saurabh Das/AP India‘s removal from the list of “polio endemic” countries has been threatened by a suspected case of the disease in the east of the country. A year without a recorded new case of polio – a major step towards its total [...]
Tags: Hindustan Times, India, Liam Donaldson, Manmohan Singh, New Delhi, Poliomyelitis, West Bengal, World Health Organization
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March 13, 2012
I posted an article about the book by Arundhati Roy, Walking With The Comrades” just by way of further introduction to this splendid book you might like to read a few excerpts. The book concerns Roy going to meet Indian Maoists on their home ground in parts of India and then walking over quite a distance through [...]
Tags: Anatole France, Arundhati Roy, Book review, England, God of Small Things, India, Kashmir, Roy, Walking With The Comrades
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March 12, 2012
I posted an article about the book by Arundhati Roy, Walking With The Comrades” just by way of further introduction to this splendid book you might like to read a few excerpts. The book concerns Roy going to meet Indian Maoists on their home ground in parts of India and then walking over quite [...]
Tags: Anatole France, Arundhati Roy, God of Small Things, India, Man Booker Prize, Maoism, Maoist, Roy, Walking With The Comrades
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February 29, 2012
Millions Join Strikes Across India Demanding Reforms Indians demanding improved rights for employees, trade unions and political activists – Common Dreams staff Millions of people, including members of the nation’s eleven largest trade unions, took to the streets across India today in a nationwide strike that seeks a remedy to rampant inflation, an end [...]
Tags: All India Trade Union Congress, G. Sanjeeva Reddy, Gurudas Dasgupta, India, Indian National Trade Union Congress, Manmohan Singh, Trade union, West Bengal
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February 25, 2012
By Shashi Tharoor “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope In a Mumbai Undercity” A book by Katherine Boo This is an astonishing book. It is astonishing at several levels: as a worm’s-eye view of the “undercity” of one of the world’s largest metropolises; as an intensely reported, deeply felt account of the lives, [...]
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January 25, 2012
‘India to buy Iran oil in gold not dollars’ New Western sanctions seek to prevent other countries from importing Iran’s crude oil. India has agreed to pay the price of crude oil it imports from Iran in gold, which makes it the first country to drop the US dollar for purchasing the [...]
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January 23, 2012
Anna Hazare, an anti-corruption activist, whose hunger strike garnered international attention, is sick – and his movement seems to have lost momentum [EPA] Six months after millions of Indians took to the streets protesting against corruption, the government has rejected anti-corruption legislation. Anna Hazare, an anti-corruption activist, whose two-phase fast-unto-death catapulted him to national hero [...]
Tags: Activism, Anna Hazare, Hong Kong, Hunger strike, India, Nikhil Dey, Political corruption, Transparency International
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January 22, 2012
Anna Hazare, an anti-corruption activist, whose hunger strike garnered international attention, is sick – and his movement seems to have lost momentum [EPA] Six months after millions of Indians took to the streets protesting against corruption, the government has rejected anti-corruption legislation. Anna Hazare, an anti-corruption activist, whose two-phase fast-unto-death catapulted him to national hero [...]
Tags: Activism, Anna Hazare, Hong Kong, Hunger strike, India, Nikhil Dey, Political corruption, Transparency International
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January 18, 2012
Despite sanctions on Iran, India will continue buying oil New Delhi, Jan 17 2012, DHNS: Only UN sanctions acceptable, says Mathai Justifying its stance to continue buying Iranian oil despite US sanctions, India on Tuesday made it clear that the restrictions do not apply to individual nations. New Delhi has sent a [...]
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January 15, 2012
According to a survey conducted in India, 42 per cent of children under five are underweight [GALLO/GETTY] New Delhi, India - Geeta, a 27-year-old mother of three, living on the outskirts of the national capital region looks vacant at the queries of malnourishment. For her, gathering cereals for the two square meals of her family is [...]
Tags: Amartya, Asia, Geeta, Hunger, India, Malnutrition, Manmohan Singh, New Delhi, Saharan Africa, United Progressive Alliance, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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January 15, 2012
India orders crackdown on ‘human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands As outrage over exploitation of Jarawa tribe spreads, minister flies in for talks Video link showing….police officer makes Jarawa tribeswomen dance for the amusement of tourists in the Andaman Islands Link to this videoEmbarrassed officials in the Andaman Islands are desperately attempting to deal with the [...]
Tags: Andaman, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andaman Islands, India, Jarawa, Jarawa people (Andaman Islands), Observer, Port Blair, Stephen Corry, Survival International
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January 10, 2012
Nearly six million Indians are employed in the GCC states [GALLO/GETTY] London, United Kingdom - Claiming that a great deal of uncertainty hangs over the contemporary security/strategic environment in the Middle East is neither a novel statement nor an exaggeration. Although it is commonly acknowledged that the regional politics will have a stronger Islamic flavour in [...]
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January 9, 2012
Pakistan‘s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani talks to China’s Premier Wen Jiabao during a singing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 18, 2011. (Jason Lee/AFP/Getty Images) China is planning a military base in Pakistan,India Today reported, citing “a secret report prepared by the [...]
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January 8, 2012
Momentous turn in India’s West Asia policy External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna is most certainly assured of an exciting visit to Israel on Monday. Israel announced Thursday that it is planning to hold its biggest-ever military exercise with the United States. Of course, unannounced, thousands of American troops are also being deployed in Israel. British [...]
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January 5, 2012
Chinese policy makers have more room for manoeuvering than their Indian counterparts [Getty Images] New Haven, Connecticut - Today, fears are growing that China and India are about to be the next victims of the ongoing global economic carnage. This would have enormous consequences. Asia‘s developing and newly industrialised economies grew at an 8.5 per [...]
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January 1, 2012
There has been significant international interest in participating in India‘s stock market [EPA] India has said it would open up its stock market to individual foreign investors for the first time. The government said in a statement on Sunday that it had taken the move “to widen the class of investors, attract more foreign funds, and [...]
Tags: Asia, India, Institutional investor, Investment, New Delhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Reserve Bank of India, Securities and Exchange Board of India
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December 31, 2011
In the land of facades, mark the first signs of an Indian spring 29 December 2011 When the early morning fog rises and drifting skeins from wood fires carry the sweet smell of India, the joggers arrive in Lodi Gardens. Past the tomb of Mohammed Shah, the 15th century Munghal ruler, [...]
Tags: Arundhati Roy, Delhi, Edward Bernays, India, Indian National Congress, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lodi Garden, New Delhi
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December 28, 2011
Indigenous Peoples in India Fight Back Against Corporate Encroachment by Sujoy Dhar LALGARH, India – This small town, barely 150 km away from the bustling eastern metropolis of Kolkata, hit news headlines in December 2008 when adivasis (indigenous people) led by Maoist rebels briefly captured it. Face to face with “India’s greatest [...]
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December 25, 2011
Photo: AP It’s Anna Hazare versus the Indian government yet again. The 74-year-old Gandhian activist is going on his third fast this year, demanding the government pass his version of a strong anti-corruption law. This, by the current session of parliament, which officially ends today. But the government is under pressure and that session [...]
Tags: Anna Hazare, AnnaHazare, Asia, Associated Press, Gandhism, Government of India, Hazare, India, Lokpal, Parliament of India, Political corruption
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December 7, 2011
India is trying to curb population growth through programmes that offer incentives to encourage Indians to undergo sterilisation. In a district in Rajasthan, the bribes and prizes are mainly offered to women. Critics say the policy is sexist and unfair to women because it means women bear all the responsibility for [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Family planning, India, Population, Population growth, Rajasthan, Simon Ross, Stephen Cole
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December 4, 2011
Australia approves uranium exports to India Labour Party conference approves PM’s plan, despite Delhi not being signatory of nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Australia possesses nearly 40 per cent of the world’s known uranium reserves [Reuters] Australia’s ruling Labour Party has approved plans to open up uranium sales to India, clearing the way for talks on a [...]
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December 3, 2011
1/10 Next Alone: India‘s Farmer Widows India’s ongoing water crisis has driven 200,000 farmers to suicide. As water dwindles, that number grows, and farmer widows are left to pick up the pieces. —Photos by Michael Francis McElroy/Text by Noella May Hebert Over the past decade, India has been gripped by a devastating water crisis. Farmers make up an [...]
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December 2, 2011
EU is India’s second-largest trading partner, with revenue of €68bn 2010, 20 per cent of India’s trade [GALLO/GETTY] New Delhi, India – The recent Indian-Italian bilateral dialogue, held in Milan on November 7, at a time when Italy was reeling from the euro crisis and Silvio Berlusconi’s impending political demise, offered a fraught reminder of the potential, [...]
Tags: Amnesty International, EU-India, European Union, India, Member state of the European Union, New Delhi, Roman Empire, Shashi Tharoor
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November 30, 2011
India‘s economic growth slumped to a two-year low of 6.9 per cent in the second quarter [Reuters] India’s economy grew at its weakest pace in more than two years in the quarter that ended in September, revealing the heavy toll that rising interest rates and the stumbling world economy are having on Asia’s third-biggest economy. [...]
Tags: Asia, Economic growth, Economy of India, Fiscal year, India, Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, World economy
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October 20, 2011
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh has pledged to review safety standards for nuclear facilities in India due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but India has more than 20 nuclear facilities planned for construction [GALLO/GETTY] Japan’s nuclear disaster has fuelled fear and uncertainty among the world’s producers of nuclear power. For India, an energy-starved country, much is [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, fukushima, India, Japan, Manmohan Singh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mikhail Gorbachev, nuclearpower
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August 25, 2011
Hazare’s anti-corruption campaign has drawn thousands of supporters across the country [REUTERS] Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, has agreed for a parliamentary discussion on a tougher version of an anti-corruption bill following intense pressure brought on the government by a veteran activist’s indefinite fast. According to the privately-owned NDTV television channel, the Indian parliament [...]
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August 15, 2011
Kashmiris are getting tired of having their voices ignored [EPA] In stampless envelopes, without an address Dead letters at the post office are we – Zareef Ahmed Zareef, contemporary Kashmiri poet What do the people of Indian-controlled Kashmir want? It’s a question as old as you want it to be, but one that it is [...]
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July 30, 2011
Ghulam Muhammad Wani’s son disappeared 15 years ago, but his case is just one among thousands in Indian-administered Kashmir [Azad Essa] His unibrow twists and arches furiously. The creases on his face tighten. His eyes shift from the door and with his index finger he points towards the ceiling. Then he stares straight at me and begins [...]
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July 30, 2011
The Indian government‘s refusal to officially recognise enforced disappearances has left families in perpetual limbo, promulgating stress and psychological trauma for parents, spouses and children, the report says [EPA] More than 1,500 women whose husbands have disappeared but have not yet been declared deceased are in a precarious and dangerous position in Indian-administered Kashmir, according [...]
Tags: Forced disappearance, Government of India, Hina Rabbani Khar, India, Indian Army, Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, Pakistan-administered Kashmir
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July 28, 2011
India: New Killings, Torture at Bangladeshi Border Revised Instructions from Delhi Not Stamping Out Abuses JULY 24, 2011 Floodlit sections of the Indian fence in West Bengal, on the border with Bangladesh. © 2010 Prashant Panjiar RELATED MATERIALS: “Trigger Happy” Despite orders from New Delhi to end killings and abuse and to exercise restraint in [...]
Tags: Bangladesh, Border guard, Border Security Force, Human Rights Watch, India, National Human Rights Commission of India, New Delhi, Torture
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July 26, 2011
Indian farmers are being forcibly moved from their land to make way for rich foreign investors and their environmentally destructive plans [EPA] On June 29, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met with editors of a few newspapers. When asked about whether he had been putting pressure on the Environment Ministry to approve environmentally destructive projects, he [...]
Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Forest Rights Act, India, Indira Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh, Manmohan Singh, POSCO, United States
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July 23, 2011
Farmers in Odisha state say the government and large corporations are conspiring to illegally seize their land, while the government believes the steel project will bring development to the region [FAIZA Khan/Al Jazeera] The eastern state of Odisha in India is pitting small farmers against international business interests in a battle that threatens the Indian [...]
Tags: Foreign Direct Investment, Forest Rights Act, Government of India, India, JPMorgan Chase, Memorandum of understanding, Orissa, POSCO
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July 13, 2011
Widespread crop failures in India have provoked over 200,000 farmers to commit suicide over the past decade [GALLO/GETTY] The proposed introduction of the Food Security Act by the UPA Government is a welcome and much needed step towards securing the right to food for all of India’s citizens. The right to food is the basis [...]
Tags: Agriculture, Food safety, Food security, India, United States, Vandana Shiva, World Bank, Yamuna Expressway
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Capitalism for Zombies, Food, Global capitalism and imperialism, Global Food System, India, Vandana | No Comments »
July 11, 2011
Water Scarcity Compounds Tensions Between India and Pakistan Nothing is quite as threatening for Pakistan as India planning 33 separate dams within the Indus river system. July 5, 2011 | Advertisement As Egypt’s post-Mubarak regime begins to pursue cooperative water rights agreements with other Nile countries, the Indus River Basin is quickly turning water into a [...]
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July 4, 2011
India‘s economy has been growing quickly, but activists say democracy is suffering because prosperity is being hoarded by a small group of corrupt elites [EPA] 2010 was the year of scams in India – the 2G telecom swindle, Commonwealth Games, Adarsh and plenty of others. 2011 has emerged as the year of the fight against corruption – [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Capitalism for Zombies, Carbon Tax, debate and discussion, Democracy, economic measures, Economics, Economy, elections, Elites, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Food, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, G8, Global capitalism and imperialism, Global Food System, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Jordan, Libya, Manufacturing Consent, oil, oil and gas resources, UK, UK fascism, UK Foreign Policy, UK Monarchy, Ukraine, UN, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Women abuse and targetting, Women and discrimination, Women and revolution, Women become tragerts, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues, Womens' views and action, Yemen | No Comments »
June 29, 2011
Daughters of the brothel Naseema was born into and lives in one of India‘s most infamous brothels but is now working to free trafficked women. Witness Last Modified: 29 Jun 2011 10:40 Filmmaker Gautam Singh explains how he came to make Daughters of the brothel. India’s handwritten magazines have long fascinated me. But while researching the [...]
Tags: Bihar, Brothel, India, Jugnu, Nepal, Politics of Sexuality, Prostitution, Sexuality
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June 27, 2011
2010 Sydney Peace Prize to Dr. Vandana Shiva, Indian Scientist and Environmental Campaigner The distinguished Indian physicist and environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva is the recipient of the 2010 Sydney Peace Prize. The citation for Dr. Shiva’s selection reads, “For courageous leadership of movements for social justice – the empowerment of women in developing countries, advocacy [...]
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June 20, 2011
The great land grab: India’s war on farmers Land is a powerful commodity that should be used for the betterment of humanity through farming and ecology. In India, the state forcibly acquires land from farmers and hands it over to private speculators, real estate corporations, mining companies and leisure industries [EPA] “The Earth upon which [...]
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June 6, 2011
Indian police break up yoga guru’s anti-corruption protest Tens of thousands of demonstrators had gathered in Delhi in support of Swami Ramdev‘s fast against corruption Share99 Jason Burke, south Asia correspondent guardian.co.uk, Sunday 5 June 2011 17.01 BST Article history Thousands of people gathered in support of Swami Ramdev’s fast in Delhi. Photograph: Anindito [...]
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May 23, 2011
India starts trade talks with African countries in effort to rival China The Indian prime minister arrives in Ethiopia to bolster economic and political links in a new ‘scramble for Africa’ (NB Please remember there is an Australian Defence Paper that names India and China as at least potential enemies and hence the need to [...]
Tags: Addis Ababa, Africa, Anand Sharma, Beijing, Centre for Policy Research, China, Economic Development, Ethiopia, India, Manmohan Singh, New Delhi, Prime Minister of India, United Nations Security Council
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May 18, 2011
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
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May 17, 2011
Thailand jungles mask surprise rise in tiger numbers Experts film previously unknown group on hidden cameras – but loss of habitat and threat from poachers cloud newfound hope Share77 Jonathan Watts in Thap Lan national park, Thailand The Guardian, Tuesday 17 May 2011 Article history An indochinese tiger in Kuala Lumpur zoo. Hidden cameras have recorded [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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Is there a lesson here for the unelected Australian government?
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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