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Siddharth Varadarajan
Punjabi Language
Nepal
Trade Unions
- 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.
Poverty and destitution
- And yet another 'pro-farmer' budget - What is the reality? P Sainath
- Maharashtra; Tale of two villages (Jaideep Hardikar) Over 70 percent of 36,000 suicides by farmers in Maharashtra between 1995 and 2006 were from Vidarbha
- Lives strangulated by needle and thread
- Special Economic Zones - The Creation of New Maharajas (by Devinder Sharma)
- Politics of packages, packaging of politics
Had there been a waiver of debt of up to just Rs.25,000, more than 80 per cent of Vidarbha's farmers would no longer have owed the banks money, writes P Sainath.
- How Mumbai came to discover Vidarbha The Prime Minister's upcoming visit to Vidarbha P Sainath
- 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
Growing corporate interests and influences in the country's farm sector underplay the significance of cooperatives
- 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 )
Miscellaneous
Pakistan
• 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
Indo-Pak relations
Britain
Attacks against Islam
Iran
USA
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Miscellaneous Political Analysis
Ghadar Movement
150th Anniversary of the 1st Indian War of Independence (Articles written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels)
Arundhati Roy
Human Rights Movement
Middle East
- 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
The struggle to protect the environment
Water
South America
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