International

ATTENBOROUGH’S MOVIE ON GANDHI

It ignores Bengal famine that killed 6 million people Dr. Gideon Polya RICHARD Attenborough‘s movie “Gandhi” was released in late 1982 and received many awards for its brilliant portrayal of Gandhi’s life and his wonderful espousal of truth and non-violence. However while quoting Gandhi’s dictum “Poverty is the worst form of violence”, this important movie […]

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THE SECRET STRUGGLE FOR THE MIDDLE EAST

Indictment of the Western neoliberal economic/political order Jim Miles WRITTEN in response to the ‘Arab Spring’ initiated in Tunisia in 2011, ‘Shadow Wars – The Secret Struggle for the Middle East’, is a powerful indictment of the Western neoliberal economic/political order. Christopher Davidson has gathered a huge amount of information from many sources that support […]

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India and Pakistan tobogganing towards a catastrophic war

Keith Jones INDIA and Pakistan, South Asia’s rival nuclear-armed states, are teetering on the brink of a full-scale military conflict. Early Tuesday morning, Indian warplanes attacked Pakistan for the first time since the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War. Striking deep inside Pakistan, they destroyed what New Delhi claims was the principal “terror base” of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, an […]