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Hardial Bains

• Causes and Lessons of the Second World War

Miscellaneous Political Analysis

• The Anachronism of "Representative Democracy" and the Immediate Need for Democratic Renewal
• Genesis of communal violence in India

Arundhati Roy

• Afzal Guru's hanging has created dangerously radioactive political fallout (Arundhati Roy)
• A perfect day for democracy (Arundhati Roy)
• We Call This Progress (Arundhati Roy)
• Those Who’ve Tried To Change The System Via Elections Have Ended Up Being Changed By It (interview with Arundhati Roy)
• Terrorism Isn’t The Disease: Egregious Injustice Is (Panini Anand's interview with Arundhati Roy)
• This Struggle Has Re-awakened Our Imagination (Arundhati Roy)
  100 of India's richest people own assets worth one-quarter of the country's GDP while more than 80% of the people live on less than 50 cents a day
• Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Arundhati Roy)
• The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution (Arundhati Roy)
• Dead men talking (Arundhati Roy)
• “The Ones Caught Will Brazen It Out” (Arundhati Roy)
• For the record: The "Seditionist" Speech - Full transcript of the speech on which the charges of sedition have been filed against Arundhati Roy
• They can file a charge posthumously against Jawaharlal Nehru too (Arundhati Roy)
• The Trickledown Revolution (Arundhati Roy)
• “Pity The Nation That Has To Silence Its Writers...” “...for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, .... roam free” Statement by  Arundhati Roy
• Walking with the comrades
• Can we leave the bauxite in the mountain? - Arundhati Roy on the Indian state's War on People
• Mumbai terror attacks
• Arundhati on media-police collusion (21st Oct 08)
• 13 December - A Reader: The strange case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament (intro by Arundhati Roy)
• Current political issues in India today
• "There is a fury building up across the country" Interview with Arundhati Roy
• Bush in India : Just Not Welcome
• TIDE? OR IVORY SNOW? - Public Power in the Age of Empire
• The Algebra of Infinite Justice
• Under the Nuclear Cloud
• Resistance is never futile
• How Deep Shall We Dig?
• OPENING STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE JURY OF CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD TRIBUNAL OF IRAQ

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Siddharth Varadarajan

• The cult of cronyism (Siddharth Varadarajan)
• The rise of Arvind Kejriwal, mango man (Siddharth Varadarajan)
• If Narendra Modi wins …(Siddharth Varadarajan)
• Arvind Kejriwal amps up his bold political experiment (Siddharth Varadarajan)
• What the 2013 results mean for 2014 (Siddharth Varadarajan)
• From fig leaf to banana republic (Siddharth Varadarajan) Nobody sheds a tear when the police harass ordinary citizens; but with the rich and powerful under the corruption scanner, the Prime Minister now fears a police state.
• A weakness born of bad intent (Siddharth Varadarajan) on the police crackdown on Baba Ramdev
• Odyssey Dawn, a Homeric tragedy by Siddharth Varadarajan - on imperialist intervention in Libya
• Welcome to the Matrix of the Indian state (Siddharth Varadarajan)
• The U.N. is escalating the Iran nuclear crisis
• US Air Craft Carrier docks in Chennai
• US admits coercion of India against Iran at IAEA
• Military means not a solution to Iran crisis, says India
• From mega surge to dual rollback - U.S. will not leave Iraq without first militarily weakening Iran.
• Bringing to book the guilty men of Baghdad
• War Crimes and the Trial of Saddam Hussein: To the Victor Belongs the Judge's Gavel
• The challenge of Asian security architecture
• Towards the endgame in Nepal
• Bush, India, and two degrees of separation
• Was Bush speech a warning on separation?
• The new deal
  
• India, Iran and the nuclear challenge
• Energy the key in the new Asian architecture
• India casting a wide net in its hunt for energy
• India, China and the Asian axis of oil
• The ICC - Living up to the legacy of Nuremberg
• East Asia Summit - Asian interests and the myth of 'balance'
• The unravelling of India 's Persian puzzle
• Defence Pact with the U.S. : India entering risky territory
• Playing on Fear, from Godhra to Guantanamo
• America Bids Farewell to the Rule of Law
• Et tu NHRC?

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• Encounters with punjabi language by Dr. Khalid Sohail
• Encounters with English in India (by Yashdip Bains)
• Report of 7th Annual APNA Panjabi Conference: Prospects For Future
• Report on Conference (in English)

• Foreign Interference in Pakistan's Sovereign Affairs Must Stop - CPC(M-L)
• Pakistan - A Nation without Direction - Sandra L. Smith
• Pakistan's Bhutto Killed in Attack - World press
• Anglo-American Ambitions behind the Assassination of Benazir
• Bhutto and the Destabilization of Pakistan - Larry Chin
• Musharraf Must Be Supported - Conrad Black, National Post
  
• U.S. Steps up Plans for Military Intervention in Pakistan - Bill Van Auken
• U.S. Prepares to Increase Occupation Forces in Afghanistan - Joe Kay
• Crisis in Pakistan 
• State Oppression in Balochistan

• The absence in Punjabiyat’s split universe (Ajay Bhardwaj)
• Global Capital, Compliant Nation-States And Totalitarian Communities: Three Formidable Barriers To The Advance of Democracy
  Key Note Address by Ravi Sinha to the Allahabad Convention of Pakistan-India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy on Global Hegemonism and Challenges to Democratic Rights
• India Pakistan Peace March
• Text of Indo-Pak joint statement
• The business route to normalcy
• The Pakistan India People's Forum for Peace and Democracy celebrates 10th Anniversary in Lahore

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Protecting the environment

• Bhopal Gas Tragedy Victims Still Fighting For Justice
• Everything I Need To Know I Learned In The Forest (Vandana Shiva)
• Koodankulam People's Appeal To The Conscience Of The Nation
• Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Has An Incomplete 
  Emergency Operating Procedure
• Fake Public Hearing of Haryana Nuclear Power Plant Denounced
• KSPCB shuts down Ramky's SWM Landfill at Mavallipura, Bangalore
• Nuclear India: The World’s Largest Paper Demockery
• An Urgent Appeal To The Conscience of Nation on Koodankulam
• "Respect India” Campaign Launched by People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy
• Koodankulam – Anti-Nuclear Struggle Continues (Deepa Rajkumar)
• The Anti-Nuclear Movement Wants India To Develop More Sustainably And Equitably (Lalita Ramdas)
• Why Kudankulam is untenable (Suvrat Raju & M V Ramana)
• Endosulfan: Endgames In Geneva And New Delhi by K M Seethi
• Aerial spraying of endosulfan was a state sponsored crime
• Dangerous Nuclear power project at Jaitapur - An Open Letter To Mr. Jairam Ramesh by Saraswati Kavula
• Three killed in police firing on people protesting against Thermal Power Project in Andhra Pradesh
• EIA Notification Amendment being pushed through without consultations
• Punjab environmental crisis: fiddling to inaction (Umendra Dutt)
• Bangalore public hearings held in blatant violation of environment clearance processes (Environment Support Group Press Release)
• ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION: Dissent at home, as abroad, for Colas
• Loopholes and Fraud Plague Environmental Clearance Process in India
• Conservation vs. Tribal Rights: Ecology for the people
• Why was a death certificate served on the Ministry of Environment and Forests?
• Two day workshop held on the environmental health crisis in the Malwa belt of Punjab
• Restoring our endangered bioreserves
• Why is the Government Systematically Undermining the Environment? Open letter to the Ministry of Environment and Forests

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The politics of Water

• Stop POSCO! Free India!
• Karnataka High Court Committee strongly discourages “commercial” involvement in lake management and rejuvenation
• Villagers force suspension of Posco project work (Prafulla Das)
• POSCO loot of our mineral wealth and environment is far worse than the 2G scam
• Nation's Conscience Must Be Awakened To Anti-POSCO Struggle
• Halt Attack On Protesters At POSCO Project Area
• Scandalous Decision of Jairam Ramesh to OK POSCO project
• Orissa - POSCO Deewane - The state and its policy discourse are loaded against the poor (Neelabh Mishra)
• Tearing through the Water Landscape: Evaluating the environmental and social consequences of POSCO project in Odisha
• Mass Protest Rally held against anti-people Water Laws and Policies of Karnataka and the US Water Trade Mission
• Thirst for profit
  People pay more for water than corporates do; in many parts of the country soft-drink giants get it almost free.
• Narmada becomes a bigger issue It has now become an issue of water being used for genocidal agriculture policies
• Report finds high levels of toxicity in Punjab rivers
• The water privatisation agenda - The World Bank and “the big bang”
• Rain or no rain, water for Coke
• Bhakra: myths, notions and reality
• June 2004, Delhi - RASHTRIYA JAL BIRADARI SAMELAN
• Dying tanks, dwindling water (by Lalitha Sridhar)
• RESIDUE OF A REVOLUTION
• Where poison flows in the veins…

• Martyrdom day of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Shaheed Rajguru and Shaheed Sukhdev - March 23 Text of Shaheed Bhagat Singh's last official communication.
• History of the Ghadar Movement
• Transcript from the trial of Shaheed Udham Singh

• On the East India Company (June-Aug 1853)
• Opening battles of the war
  • 17 Sept to 13 Oct
  • 15 July to15 Sept
  • 23 Oct to 14 Nov 1857
• The tide turns against the Patriots
• The aftermath
• Marx-Engels Correspondence

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Britain and Europe

• The Jean McConville killing: I'm completely innocent. But what were my accusers' motives?(Gerry Adams)
• Defend the Rights of All!
  Immigration Bill Passes Second Reading
• In Memoriam - Ajmer Singh Bains
• The colonial papers: FCO transparency is a carefully cultivated myth (Professor Caroline Elkins, who has worked on historic Kenya files released by the British government, analyses its record of scrubbing and concealing embarrassing information)
• Genocidal Racist Charles Dickens, Indian Holocaust And UK-US Muslim Genocide (Dr Gideon Polya)
• British Citizenship tests A Very Dangerous Mixture of Banality and Backwardness
• British Government Launches "Citizenship" Tests
• The Labour Party and Colonialism
• Memorial meeting for Kewal Singh Purewal held in Coventry, England
• Black History Month 2007:
  An Issue of the Content of Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
• Opposing Disinformation on Enslavement and Abolition
• Settling Scores with the Old Conscience – End the Racist System of Modern-Day Slavery
• A New Kind of Imperialism (by Hakim Adi)
• The Demand for a Public Inquiry into the London Bombings
• The rich demand even more - The Corporate Begging Bowl in Britain (George Monbiot)
• Bomb Outrages Must Not Divert the Movement Against Neo-Liberal Globalisation and War
• Labour Government Sets its Sights on “Partnership” with India
• Blair's Visit to China and India : World's People Will Not Accept this Attack on The Right to Conscience
• No To State-Organised Racist Attacks!
• How the Call for "No Revenge" Is Made Sleight of Hand for "Defence of Our Way of Life"
• Britain: Imperial Nostalgia
• Education Is A Right! - There Is No Justification For Top Up Fees
• The Labour "Rebellion" and the Need for an Alternative
• Why Should Tony Blair Act as though He Were World President

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Greece

• Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras: 'It's a war between people and capitalism'

Russia

• Why Russia needs Crimea (Vladimir Radyuhin)

Nepal and Burma

• Forging a Nepal for all its peoples (Prashant Jha)
• India Bends Over for Myanmar's Generals  Sudha Ramachandran (5 November 2007)
• Nepal's Democratic Movement: Moves One Step Further
• Saga of compromise and struggle continues in Nepal
• Nepal: The Americans are leaving, State Department stays on
• Joint Statement Of Nepal's Five Political Parties

South East Asia

• Anniversaries From "Unhistory" (Noam Chomsky) Right now we are failing to commemorate an event of great human significance: the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s decision to launch the direct invasion of South Vietnam
• 'Breaking the Silence' on a massacre (Sara Schonhardt)
  .... the experiences of men and women during the 1965-66 anti-Communist purges in Indonesia that left half a million people dead.
• The empire and lies Fidel Castro's reflections on Iran and North Korea
• All Glory to the Chinese People!
  Hail the Sixtieth Anniversary of the People's Republic of China!
  The Chinese People Have Stood Up! Mao Zedong, 21 Sept 1949
• Text of India-China agreement
• Hail the Historic Victory of the Korean People! (58th Anniversary of the Korean War and evidence of genocidal massacres by US and South Korean troops unearthed by Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission)
• Risky Geopolitical Game: Washington Plays “Tibet Roulette” with China

• Are Protestors Now Terrorists Under the New Anti-terrorism Law?

USA

• The Cuban Five were fighting terrorism. Why did we put them in jail? (Stephen Kimber)
• The Yearning For Democracy Is A Bad Joke (Interview with Noam Chomsky)
• Chickens Always Come Home: Armed Americans Have Killed Millions of Children Abroad (Jay Janson)
• Statement by Pfc. Bradley Manning upon being sentenced
• Bradley Manning: a tale of liberty lost in America (Glenn Greenwald)
• Attack on peoples' rights in USA
• A lesson on the white man’s justice (Praveen Swami)
• Global Super Rich Hoard $31 Trillion in Tax Havens
• Obama’s Scramble For Africa (Nick Turse)
• Sharing the same difference (Ravinder Kaur)
• Getting Rolled In Wisconsin (Andy Kroll)
• Bush And Associates Authorised Torture
• A Rebellious World or A New Dark Age? On The History of the US Economy in Decline (Noam Chomsky)
• Three GOP Presidentials Commit Crime Against Peace Under Nuremberg Principles (Jay Janson)
• Inequality, the Middle Class, and Growth (Jared Bernstein)
• Buying Congress In 2012 (Bill McKibben)
• How Freedom Became Tyranny (George Monbiot)
  Rightwing libertarians have turned “freedom” into an excuse for greed and exploitation.
• The Bush Administration Was An Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy Under International Law And U.S. Domestic Law (Francis A. Boyle)
• The Undeserving Rich (George Monbiot)
• American poverty levels hit record high
• Why The Movement To Occupy Wall Street?(Ron Forthofer)
• The logical outcome of the occupy movement (Tim Gatto)
• Occupy Demands: Let's Radicalize Our Analysis Of Empire, Economics, Ecology (Robert Jensen)
• Wall Street protest movement spreads to cities across US, Canada and Europe
• Audit Of The Federal Reserve Reveals $16 Trillion In Secret Bailouts
• The True Cost Of America's Wars (Jack Smith)
• US universities in Africa 'land grab'
• Americans Are Living In 1984 by Dr Paul Roberts
• Everything Is Under Control... by Noam Chomsky
• Yes, There Is An Alternative (R Broad & J Cavanagh)
• Toxic Brew: The Tea Parties didn’t arise spontaneously; they were boiled up by big business
• Cases of racial profiling (Democratic National Convention, Boston July 04 BY KRISTEN LOMBARDI )
• World Suffers Consequences of George W. Bush's "Catastrophic Success"
• Three days of militant demonstrations and other actions (Republican Convention, New York Aug 04)
• Hurricane Katrina: Clash Between Authority and Conditions
• Social Change and the hell of New Orleans
• Government Refusal to Take Social Responsibility is a Crime

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South America

• We Admire the Achievements of the Cuban Revolution
• ‘A Breach Of International Law’: statement by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the United Nations General Assembly
• Honour and Glory to President Hugo Chávez!
  Untimely Death of President Hugo Chávez
• Viva President Hugo Chávez! Hasta Siempre, Comandante
• Hasta Siempre, Comandante: Statement from the Revolutionary Government, Cuba
• The Patria Grande will never forget Chávez
• The Pursuit Of Julian Assange Is An Assault On Freedom And A Mockery Of Journalism (John Pilger)
• Julian Assange asylum: Ecuador is right to stand up to the US (Mark Weisbrot)
• The rights groups that lost the plot on Ecuador and Julian Assange (Mark Weisbrot)
• The Genius of Chavez (Fidel Castro Ruz)
• Ongoing Destabilisation Attempts in Venezuela ahead of December Elections
• Socialism is the course for the salvation of the planet - Speech given by Hugo Chávez Frías, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, at the United Nations Climate Change Summit, Denmark
• ALBA Alternative Is Developing with Courage and ResolveSuccessful conclusion of 7th ALBA Summit:
• 80th Anniversary of Che Guevara's Birth - Che Guevara Thinker and Fighter
• Toward Unity and Independence Against the Empire (Reflections on Lula by Fidel Castro)
• A People under Fire  - Reflections by Cuban President Fidel Castro (29 Nov, 2007)
• What Is Venezualan Constitutional Reform Really About? - Chris Carlson, (23 November 2007)
• Venezuela: Notes on the Bolivarian Revolution
• Hands Off Venezuela , Defend the UNT and Venezuela's Sovereignty!
  Support the UNT's "Open Letter to the Workers' Group of the ILO!
• Bolivia - Revolution in the Making
• Condemn the US instigated coup in Haiti

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Trade Unions

• The Labour Market Is a Modern Slave Trade of Employees
• Confronting Unemployment and Insecurity of an Uncertain Livelihood Means Confronting Monopoly Right
• An independent voice for workers
  With their long history of affiliation to political parties, unions have been unable to articulate the interests of workers independently.

Indian state's war on people and human rights

• Tehelka, Jhatka and now Tamasha (Satya Sagar)
• Former Tehelka journalist speaks out
• 1984 and the Spectre of Narendra Modi (Ravinder Kaur)
• The Terrible Cost of an Inhuman Counter-Insurgency
• Repeal The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958
  Petition by North Eastern Social Research Centre (NESRC)
• Yet another doctored riot (Harsh Mander)
• For a moratorium on death sentence (V. Venkatesan)
• It is multiorgan failure of society, state (Mohammad Ali)
• In Memory of the Unknown Citizen (Shuddhabrata Sengupta)
• Justified Anger Of The People Cannot Be Put Down By Force! (Raghavan Srinivasan)
• Attack On Dalits Of Dharmapuri: A Fact Finding Report (Dr Anand Teltumbde)
• Government Inaction on Irom Sharmila's Fast Is An Affront To Democracy
• Qateel Siddiqi Killed In Judicial Custody
• Targeting Innocents: State And Human Rights Of Minorities (Ram Puniyani)
• Resist The Silent Emergency!
  Call For Action On June 26th, 2012
• Terrorism In India: Between Facts And Fiction (Imran Khan)
• Miscarriage Of Justice (Vidya Bhushan Rawat)
• Open Letter To P Chidambaram By Concerned Citizens
• The many twists and turns of 27 Feb 2002 (Vidya Subrabmaniam)
• In absolving Modi, SIT mixes up Godhra and post-Godhra perpetrators (Vidya Subrabmaniam)
• Withdraw False Charges Against Kabir Kala Manch
• West Bengal: Increasing Political Prisoners (Ranjit Sur)
• Pathribal Fake Encounter Case Judgement: Indictment Sans Justice (Abdul Majid Zargar)
• Why Balwant Singh Rajoana shouldn't be hanged -Yug Mohit Chaudhry
• Coming Downhill From Kashipur (Deba Ranjan)
• Rights Of The Indian People In Danger - Appeal for support by Peoples' Solidarity Concerns (Bangalore)
• PUDR Denounces State Suppression Of Democratic Organizations In The Name Of Maoism
• Police firing in Gopalgarh: Unanswered Questions
• Call The Pathologist: The torture of Soni Sori is worse than what the Raj ever inflicted (Neelabh Mishra)
• Statement Against the Torture and Politically Motivated Arrest of Soni Sori
• Torture in India 2011
  14,231 Persons Died In police And Judicial Custody in India From 2001 To 2010 - Asian Centre for Human Rights
• Public Hearing On Atrocities On Adivasis And Dalits In Western Rajasthan(Bhanwar Megwanshi)
• Mass Graves in Kashmir - Press Statement by PUCL and PUDR
• Kishanji: Not Just Another ‘Martyr’ (Saroj Giri)
• Orissa: Brutalities Cannot Be Forgotten (Deba Ranjan)
• Prisoner of Conscience Kopa Kunjam Should Be Freed Immediately and Unconditionally
• West Bengal: Encounter Deaths or Cold Blooded Murders? (Ranjit Sur)
• Do We Have Democratic Rights? (Gladson Dungdung)
• Salwa Judum-SPO Judgement Hurts. Why? (Sadanand Patwardhan)
• Supreme Court Order on Salwa Judum (July 11)
• Full text of Supreme Court Order - Part 1 Part 2
• Repeal AFSPA, Free Sharmila - A Call for Nationwide Protest by National Alliance of People’s Movements and National Fish workers’ Federation
• Fact Finding Report On Police Brutalities In Odisha
• Letter To World Health Organisation On Binayak Sen on World TB Day by Health professionals and organisations
• Not To Question Why (Ramachandra Guha)
• A Critique Of Binayak Sen’s Judgment
• Dr Binayak Sen’s Conviction And Life Sentence Mock Justice - Amnesty International Press Release
• A Miscarriage Of Justice - Statement by PUCL
  Background – from the archives May 2008
• Wikileaks discloses Indian government condoned ‘rampant use of torture’ in Jammu and Kashmir and the North East: PUDR statement
• The Bloody Streets Of Kashmir Have Spoken by Prakash Kona
• From the Killing Fields of Kashmir to the Finishing Line (By Gautam Navlakha)
• The Ayodhya Verdict: A Blow To the Spirit Of Modern India
• ASI is the handmaiden of Hindutva
• Video - conference on the Indian state's War on People (organised by the Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights)
• Condemn illegal detention of democratic rights activists in Punjab
  Press Statement by People’s Union For Democratic Rights
• Democratic Front against Operation Green Hunt, Punjab holds Massive Convention at Jalandhar
• The Operation NGO Hunt In Jharkhand (Gladson Dungdung)
• Fact Sheet on Operation Green Hunt (Campaign Against war on People)
• Release Anthony Shing Immediately and Unconditionally!
• Look Who’s Talking To Whom: FBI And Delhi Police Special Cell - Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association statement
• The Right To Think
  Even more fundamental than the right of free expression is the right to think. (Noam Chomsky - Lecture at the Istanbul Conference on Freedom of Speech)
• “Media Subdues The Public. It’s So In India, Certainly” Outlook Interview with Noam Chomsky
• Faking An Encounter, Killing the Peace Process
  Report of the All India Fact Finding Team on the Killing of Azad and H. C Pandey
• Condemn attempt to justify the murder Of Hem Chandra Pandey (PUDR Press release)
• Cold blooded murders by the state in fake encounters - murder of Chemkuri Azad Rajkumar, a leading member of CPI(Maoist) by Andhra police after his arrest (statement by CPI(Maoist)
• A Last Note To A Neo-Colonialist Reply to B.G. Verghese’s article in Outlook written by Chemkuri Azad Rajkumar, the CPI (Maoist) spokesperson before his murder.
• Death By An Inch... Lies By The Mile
  Azad's post- mortem reveals cold-blooded murder
• Press Release on increasing denial of civil rights on 35th Anniversary of Emergency (New Delhi)
• The Trophies Of Operation Green HuntWhen rape is routine and there’s a paucity of condemning voices
• Statement against Government of India’s planned military offensive in adivasi-populated regions
• 1984: Who are the Guilty? The report of a joint inquiry into the causes and impact of the riots in Delhi from 31 October to 10 November 1984 which blew the lid off the role Congress leaders played in the anti-Sikh massacres...(more)
• Citizens' panel warns of civil war in Chhattisgarh
• Protester begins tenth year of hunger strike over Indian Army Act
• International Day of Action to Free Binayak Sen and Demand Repeal of Black Laws
• AIPSG condemns the use of massacre and war as tools of politics and diplomacy in South Asia
• Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Punjab on International Human Rights Day
• PUNJAB POLICE: Fabricating Terrorism through Illegal Detention and Torture ENSAAF Report released (download complete report)
• All India Conference on Rights charts course for defence and realisation of rights of all Indians
• Should capital punishment be scrapped
• Press Statement by Association of Families of the Disappeared in Punjab
• 20 years after the November 84 massacre of people of the Sikh faith
• The Massacre of November 1984 Shall Never be Forgotten! and  State Terror Unleashed on the People's Movement in Nauhar, Rajasthan
• Previous commisssions and committees of enquiry into the Delhi massacres
• Nanavati Commission Report
• Police terror at Nauagarhi, P.S. Mufassil, Distt Munger since 17th August 2004 - report of Bihar PUCL
• Repeal Armed Forces Act: official panel
• Unite against the communal violence and fascist terror! Form People's Defence Committees to fight communal violence!

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Literature and media

• Jaipur Literature Festival
• Rushdie is a sub-standard writer(Markandey Katju)
• My Freedom Has More Cola Fizz Than Yours (Priyamvada Gopal)
• Writers must serve a social purpose (Markandey Katju)
• The Role the Media should be playing in India (Justice Markandey Katju)
• Indian Media Discredited (Binu Mathew)

The economy, poverty and corruption

• Too scared to turn left or right (Vidya Subrahmaniam)
• AAP to Form Next Government in Delhi, Kejriwal to be CM
• AAP: Subversion By Innocence ( Satya Sagar)
• How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life (Vandana Shiva)
• Commercialisation And Conflict In New India (Graham Peebles)
• Looking At Kautilya Beyond The Realm Of Realism (Atul Bhardwa)
• Corporate Push For GMO Food Puts Independent Science In Jeopardy (Vandana Shiva)
• Caste And The Tyranny Of Capitalism In India(Braj Ranjan Mani)
• Nailing the lie of the land (Medha Patkar)
• A Political Alternative to Alternative Politics (P Bhushan)
• How the political class has looted India (A.G.Noorani)
• Monsanto and others to be prosecuted in B.T. Brinjal biopiracy case
• The Contemptuous Lathi-Charged Cattle Prod Of Indian Officialdom (Colin Todhunter)
• Anna seeks law to make gram sabhas “above parliament”
• A Pan-Indian Gram Sabha (Prashant Bhushan)
• The saga of the Lokpal Bill
  (by Prashant Bhushan, Senior Advocate and member of Team Anna)
• The Indian Land Grab In Africa (GOI Monitor)
• Corruption: How the issue poses itself
• How little can a person live on? (Utsa Patnaik)
• Empowering The Poor Through Participatory Development (Prahlad Shekhawat)
• "Every 30 Minutes": Crushed By Debt And Neoliberal Reforms, Indian Farmers Commit Suicide At Staggering Rate
• How Much Poor Is Poor: Even Beggars Are Not Poor Enough! (Shahidur Rashid Talukd)
• How not to tackle the black economy in India
• Honesty is indivisible (Arun Kumar) The Indian ruling class faces its severest crisis of credibility. Its past has caught up with it and skeletons and scams are spilling out of its closets.
• P Sainath
• The austerity of the affluent (P Sainath)
• The Union Cabinet gets "healthier" (P Sainath)
• Over a quarter million farm suicides in 16 years (P Sainath)
• Decadal journeys: debt and despair spur urban growth (P Sainath)
• Worshipping a steel rath in Orissa (P Sainath)
• Ending corruption: The gang that couldn't shoot straight (P Sainath)
• Corporate socialism's 2G orgy (by P Sainath)
  The Union budget writes off Rs.240 crore in corporate income tax every single day on average — the same amount leaves India each day in illicit fund flows to foreign banks.
• Illegal financial flows: the great drain robbery (by P Sainath)
• Of luxury cars and lowly tractors (P. Sainath)
• The narcissism of the neurotic (by P Sainath)
  The Commonwealth Games were no showcase...
• 17,368 farm suicides (P. Sainath)
• And yet another 'pro-farmer' budget - What is the reality?P Sainath
• Politics of packages, packaging of politics P Sainath
• How Mumbai came to discover Vidarbha P Sainath

• Devinder Sharma
• The Great Indian Gene Bazaar (Devinder Sharma)
• A Hungry Nation Exports Food (Devinder Sharma)
• India's Shameful Paradox Of Plenty (Devinder Sharma)
• Allowing Retail FDI In India: Lies, Lies And Damn Lies (Devinder Sharma)
• Hunger For More or More For Hunger? (Devinder Sharma )
• Politics Around Farmer Suicides. To Whose Benefit? (Devinder Sharma)
• Obama’s Visit: US Merchants Eyeing Indian Agriculture (Devinder Sharma)
• Onion Crisis Was Stage Managed (Devinder Sharma)
• Special Economic Zones - The Creation of New Maharajas(by Devinder Sharma)
• Punjab's Agriculture Is Full Of Misery (Devinder sharma)
• Stop Perpetuating ‘Forced Labour’
  -Demand to Government of India and State Governments
• Who owns India’s natural resources - Community or Government? (S.R.Hiremath)
• Monsanto Takes Over Agriculture Of Semi-Arid Rajasthan
• The Second Green Revolution: A Blue-Print to Control India’s Agriculture
• Vedanta
  Not Only Niyamgiri: Stop Resource-Grab Everywhere!
  Whose Development Is It, Anyway? - by Kobad Ghandy
• Tales of eviction in Bengal
• The life and death of a mad Bhopali
• Report on the Brutal State Violence Against Farmers in Dadri, U.P.
• Book review: The Spy Princess by Shrabani Basu
• Text of UPA's Common Minimum Programme
• A citizens' audit of education
• National Convention of Nomads and Adivasis
• Does this money grow on trees? – Public Funding of Private Pockets (by Himanshu Upadhyaya)
• Cartels fleece India in defence deals
• The Mania for "Mega Mergers" Is the Drive for Domination and War
• Naidu, but with another name!
• What Is Meant by the Knowledge-Based Economy
• Maharashtra; Tale of two villages (Jaideep Hardikar)
• Lives strangulated by needle and thread
• The unbearable lightness of seeing (Mumbai's demolitions of tens of thousands of the homes of slum-dwellers)
• Importing a farming crisis
  India is unilaterally opening its doors to imports of wheat. A step that will result in serious consequences.
• Transplanting failure
  
• Creative solutions, sarkari -style
• A thin Indian line
  The first step towards eradicating poverty is to understand just how many of us are poor, and what that means.
• Counting people, discounting their worth
• Village for Sale: Agrarian Crisis Taking Grotesque Turn (by N Talwar)
  Indian news agencies report that, six entire villages in Punjab have been put up for sale.
• Look to helpline, land in jail
  Those turning to the Government 'helpline' in Mahbubnagar, Andhra Pradesh, learn the hard way what happens when the little farmer of the countryside runs into the large apparatus of the state.
• Kin of indebted farmers finally get to speak at People's Tribunal on suicides in Punjab
• Where India 'shining' meets great depression
• Covering the Republic of Hunger
• Global leadership, empty stomachs
• The plight of cotton farmers in Maharashtra
• Fields of conflict over US cotton (James Westhead)
• Falling farm incomes, growing inequities
• Farm Subsidies: The Report Card by Devinder Sharma
• Get Over The GDP-FDI obsession (Prashant Bhushan)
• Farm subsidies - Ahluwalia echoes World Bank's line
• Why their kids are dying (Deaths of tribal children in Maharashtra by T Jahnavi)
• Crippling delivery to the disabled The conditions of people with disabilities in India by Himanshu Upadhyaya

Education

• Decolonising our universities: time for change CK Raju link
• International Conference on decolonising our Universities - videos

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Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan

• The illegality, illegitimacy and immorality of U.S. drone strikes (Larry Everest)
• Madiba Is Gone; The Struggle Continues
• Biography of Nelson Mandela
• The British Government Must Cease all Interference
  in Syria and End its Disinformation
• President Al-Assad Interview with teleSUR TV: “US Policy Has Been Based on Lies Since the Beginning”
• Convenient Myths And Liberal Imperialism (John Pilger)
• Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Bush, Blair Should Face Trial At The Hague
• Egypt told to give military leaders 'safe exit' by western governments (Jack Shenker)
• Libya: The Defence of the Indefensible – Assassination and State Terrorism
• In Libya, Britain has slid into every interventionist fallacy (Simon Jenkins)
• US, UK Plot Libya War Escalation by Bill Van Auken
• The Link Between War And Big Finance By Kevin Zeese
• Arab League Now Distances Itself from the Airstrikes by Sandra Smith
• Empire's New "Democratic" Plan For The Middle East By Behzad Majdian
• Behind the Arab Revolt is a word we dare not speak (by John Pilger)
• Libya is united in popular revolution – please don't intervene ....the blood of Libya's dead will be wasted if the west curses uprising with intervention
• No Intervention in Libya! Anglo-US Imperialism Out of North Africa and the Middle East!
• Oceans Of Blood And Profits For The Mongers Of War (Robert Fisk)
• Uprisings in North Africa and West Asia
• Condemn the Criminal Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla!
• Support the Palestinian People!
• Desperate Attempt to Declare Palestinian Right of Return, Right to Self-Defence and Nationhood Illegal (Sandra L. Smith)
• Palestine: To Blame the Victims for This Killing Spree Defies both Morality and Sense (Seumas Milne)
• "It never happened..." (John Pilger)
• Imprisoning a Whole Nation (John Pilger)
• Palestinian Resistance Cuts the Gordian Knot (CPCM-L)
• Tony Blair and the Middle East
• Tony Blair: The Quartet's "Peace Envoy" – Discredited, Deluded, Disgraced (Felicity Arbuthnot)
• Death Verdict for Saddam Hussein and the Imperial Politics of Assassination
  • Death Verdict for Saddam Hussein and the Imperial Politics of Assassination (TML)
  • Letter to Iraqi People from Saddam Hussein
  • Statement of Saddam Hussein's Defense Lawyers
  • Victor's Justice - Paul Wolf, Lawyer on Defense Team
  • Court Set Up by an Illegal Occupying Power - Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad,  International Committee for the Defence of President Saddam Hussein
  • Saddam Hussein Trial and Death Sentence Are Illegal - Brussels Tribunal
  • Proceedings and Death Verdict Against Saddam Hussein by a Puppet Court Are Illegal, Unfair, and Invalid - Prof. Jose Maria Sison, International League of Peoples' Struggle
• Five Years of Phantom Plots (by Jim Brann)
• Anti -war demonstration in England
• Condemn Israeli war crimes in Gaza and Lebanon
• Militant Demonstrations World-Wide Condemn US-Zionist State Terror
• Defending Lebanese Sovereignty - Ali Fayyad, Senior Member, Executive Committee of Hezbollah, July 25
• Al-Jazeera Interview with Hezbollah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah
• No to Israeli War Crimes! Demand an end the occupation of Gaza
• "Recognise the Centrality of the Palestine Question": An Interview with George Galloway
• The G8 Summit: a fraud and a circus (by John Pilger)
• The Role of the Media in the "War against Terrorism"
• News from Behind The Facade - by John Pilger
• Condemn the Lawlessness and Violation of Justice of the US and Britain
• Lord Steyn and the Rule of Law:
• War Crimes and Lawlessness on a Truly Grand Scale
• Art, Truth & Politics by Harold Pinter
• Tony Benn's interview of Saddam Hussein
• Tony Blair's Justifications for War on Iraq Do Not Wash
• ‘Enemy combatants': Age is not a determining factor
• "Words Mean What They Say": Who Is Threatening War and the Use of Force?
• American troops view Iraqis as sub-humans
• Mounting opposition to US war against Iraq
• The People's Anti-War Movement Must Keep Its Bearings
• Raise your voice against the unjust imperialist war being waged by the USA against the people of Afghanistan!
• Condemn the criminal genocidal assault on Falluja.
• Torture and the Future (by Lisa Hajjar)
• Falluja - A report by Jo Wilding
• War lords try to ‘shut up' critics - Robert Fisk
• Condemn US-British War Crimes in Iraq End the Occupation!
• Militant Demonstration against War Crimes and Torture in Iraq held in London
• Message from Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg, to the Stop the War Coalition Rally
• Yasser Arafat - Eh Din statement

Attacks against Islam

• Muslims and the Media ( Sandra Smith)
• Interpreting Islam from a Eurocentric Point of View
• Islam in Western Mirror by Dr Nasir Khan
• Salman Rushdie: an "intellectual" serving Anglo-American imperialism
• Denmark Has Lost Its Innocence (by Sven Tarp)

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Iran

• The US And Israel, Not Iran, Threaten Peace (Noam Chomsky)
• Nuclear watchdog chief accused of pro-western bias over Iran (Julian Borger and Katy Roberts)
• REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL: The roads leading to disaster
• An attack on Iran must be stopped (Andrew Murray)
• Iran: The Price of Resistance (Chandra Muzaffar)
• The Persian Puzzle
  India is once again talking of its independent relationship with Iran. What is going on with the American policy in the region and what exactly is the Iranian threat? - NOAM CHOMSKY
• An Iranian Offer that America Must Heed
• Iran: The Next War(By John Pilger)
• Warmonger British Foreign Secretary Lectures Iran on the Path Ahead!
• Interim IAEA report on Iran
• Iran and the Invention of a Nuclear Crisis
• Full text of UN address by Dr. Mahmood Ahmadinejad President of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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