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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 […]

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 […]

Patrick Martin THE budget request made public on 10 March by the White House must be taken by the international working class as a serious warning. The US government is preparing for full-scale war abroad and savage attacks on the living standards and social benefits of working people at home. The most powerful imperialist state […]

Mohammad Amjad Hossain THE Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar have been residing for centuries along with the Rakhines in Arakan, now Known as Rakhine state whereas plenty of satellite photos clearly indicate Myanmar’s security forces have burned scores of villages, beheading men, raping women and killing children ruthlessly. In some places, Buddhist militia and mobs have […]

Stephen Lendman THOUGH it is too early to judge her after barely over two months in Congress, her forthright outspokenness is encouraging. She supported what demanded rejection – HR 676, the NATO Support Act, banning use of federal funds for withdrawal, requiring the US to remain a member in good standing, prohibiting withdrawal from the […]

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 […]

John Pilger Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humour in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was played; a woman, Katarina, stood and sang with a husky contralto. “What did […]

Wasantha Rupasingh INDIA carried out an air strike deep inside Pakistan early 26 February morning, its first since the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, raising tensions between South Asia’s rival nuclear-armed states to a boil. With Islamabad asserting it has a right to retaliate and the spokesman for Pakistan’s army vowing it will “surprise” India, there is […]

Ewan Robertson Former US President Jimmy Carter declared in Mérida on 21st September 2012 that “Venezuela’s electoral system is the best in the world”. Speaking at an annual event in 2012 in Atlanta for his Carter Centre foundation, the politician-turned philanthropist stated —“As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I […]

Nauman Sadiq FIRST of all, we need to understand how the neoliberal mindset is constructed. As we know that mass education programs and mass media engender mass ideologies. We like to believe that we are free to think, but as a matter of fact, human beings don’t exist in vacuums; the human mind is always […]