India
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Britain Robbed India Of $45 Trillion & Thence 1.8 Billion Indians Died From Deprivation by Dr Gideon Polya
Eminent Indian economist Professor Utsa Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University) has estimated that Britain robbed India of $45 trillion between 1765 and 1938, However it is estimated that if India had remained free with 24% of world GDP as in 1700 then its cumulative GDP would have been $232 trillion greater (1700-2003) and $44 trillion greater… Continue reading
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BRICS: Weakening US Hegemony, Reshaping the Global Economy?
3 September 2017 — Global Research In light of the ninth BRICS summit which will be held in Xiamen, China on September 4 and 5, Global Research brings to your attention some articles on the framework and roadmap of the BRICS partnership. Will the US empire break the on-going strategic relations between the concerned countries? Or will Continue reading
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Examining India’s Demonetization: Social Impact, US Backing and Global Implications: Selected Articles
8 January 2017 — Global Research India’s “War on Cash”: The Demonetization Blitzkrieg. The “Ice Nine” Solution By Sridhar Chakravarthi Raman, December 11 2016 The demonetization blitzkrieg of the NDA government was served to the unsuspecting Indian public as a moral crusade to destroy the twin evils of black money and counterfeit notes. But as the days Continue reading
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Tell Unilever to pay up!
I’ve got an important meeting tomorrow with UK company Unilever – and I need your help to make sure it has an impact. 38 Degrees members have been piling on the pressure for Unilever to fix the mess left by their factory’s deadly mercury spill in India. Unilever’s mercury spill has ruined lives and poisoned… Continue reading
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Unilever’s Toxic Mercury Spill in India: Tweet the CEO
They dumped tons of toxic waste, devastated an entire town and poisoned thousands of their own workers. That’s Unilever: a huge UK corporation that makes billions of pounds in profit. But they aren’t paying up for a massive toxic mercury leak they caused in the Indian town of Kodaikanal. Continue reading
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India: Selling Out To Monsanto. GMOs and the Bigger Picture By Colin Todhunter
The bedrock of any society is its agriculture. Without food there can be no life. Without food security, there can be no genuine independence. A recent report by the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world’s food and are more productively efficient than large farms [1]. Facilitated by an appropriate policy… Continue reading
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The Real Agenda of the Gates Foundation
In 2009 the self-designated “Good Club” – a gathering of the world’s wealthiest people whose collective net worth then totaled some $125 billion – met behind closed doors in New York City to discuss a coordinated response to threats posed by the global financial crisis. Led by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and David Rockefeller, the… Continue reading
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Anatomy of India’s General Election (II) Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
There are two competing narratives regarding what to expect from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His acolytes keep switching between overlapping descriptions of him to convey their adoration of their idol – Loha Purush (Iron Man) and Vikas Purush (Development Man). Continue reading
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Anatomy of India’s General Election (I) By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The stunning victory of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] in the recently-concluded general election in India needs to be understood from three perspectives – first, the sheer dimensions of the victory; second, its meaning; and, third, what it portends for India’s political economy in the coming five-year period in terms of national… Continue reading
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India elects the BJP: Stories
18 May 2014 — Countercurrents No! Indians Don’t Vote Intelligently By Trevor Selvamhttp://www.countercurrents.org/selvam180514.htmUnkind? No, not all. Unsparing? No, not for now. Because, you just cannot wake up to the fascist menace in the last few months before the elections. Just last week, you were saying, the “tide is turning.” “It won’t be a wave, it Continue reading
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War, Economic Catastrophe and Environmental Degradation. Under the Guise of Progress and Development By Colin Todhunter
The type of urbanisation being pursued in India is not ‘natural’, however, nor does it represent ‘progress’. It has thus far been largely based on unconstitutional land takeovers, the trampling of democratic rights, increasing and unsustainable resource usage and air and water pollution. But for Chidambaram and other supporters of cronyism, cartels and the manipulation… Continue reading
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The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming By Dr. Vandana Shiva
“Monsanto is an agricultural company. “Producing more, Conserving more, Improving farmers lives.” These are the promises Monsanto India’s website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers’ suicides in India from the company’s growing… Continue reading
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Caste as a colonial creation By Amit Singh
The discussion around UK legislation on caste discrimination is too quick to forget how much it was Britain which invented the system in the first place. Continue reading
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Bhopal gas tragedy-WikiLeaks expose US role
The [Wikileaks] disclosures known as the “Kissinger cables” make the US Administration ethically and morally, if not legally, responsible for the Bhopal Gas Disaster that took thousands of lives, sickened and maimed many more. Continue reading
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Harvest of Hypocrisy: Farmers Being Blamed for GMO Crop Failures By Glenn Davis Stone
Of all the GMO controversies around the world, the saga of Bt cotton in India continues to be one of the most interesting and important. In the latest chapter, reported by the Business Standard, cotton yields have dropped to a 5-year low, setting off a fascinating round of finger pointing. Continue reading
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Syria And Beyond: Most Serious East-West Confrontation Since End Of Cold War By Vladimir Radyuhin
The veto Russia slapped jointly with China on two United Nations Security Council resolutions that sought the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad marked the most serious East-West confrontation since the end of the Cold War. Continue reading
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Top NATO Military Commander Mulls Partnerships With India, Brazil
A top Pentagon commander has told U.S. legislators that the possibilities of NATO partnership with India and Brazil are “worth exploring”, as the two nations have great capabilities. This is the first time possibly that a top Pentagon commander is making such a statement on a partnership between NATO and India. The Pentagon official was… Continue reading
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Many Avatars of Indian Corruption By Satya Sagar
To call Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption a ‘second freedom movement’ may be hyperbole but in recent times there has been no mass upsurge for a purely public cause, that has captured the imagination of so many. Continue reading
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In India and Israel, the burden of protest falls on the victims of injustice By Pankaj Mishra
At a dark moment in postcolonial history, when many US-backed despots seemed indestructible, the great Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose centenary falls this year, wrote: “We shall witness [the day] when the enormous mountains of tyranny blow away like cotton”. Continue reading
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Ignoring its imperial history licences the west to repeat it By Seumas Milne
The reporters who heard David Cameron tell Pakistani students this week that Britain was responsible for ‘many of the world’s problems … in the first place’ seemed to think he was joking. But it’s a measure of how far Britain is from facing up to its own imperial legacy that his remarks were greeted with… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 