CounterCurrents: Toyota Strike And The Scourge Of Contract Labour

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The Snowden Effect: Obama, Lawmakers Propose End To NSA Bulk Spying
By Jon Queally

http://www.countercurrents.org/queally250314.htm

Existence of NSA's bulk spying program was once a well-guarded secret, but now reforms of some kind seem inevitable


Invasion Of The Data Snatchers
By Catherine Crump & Matthew Harwood

http://www.countercurrents.org/harwood250314.htm

Big Data and the Internet of Things Means the Surveillance of Everything


Aadhaar & NPR: A Corrupt Surveillance Tool
By Gopal Krishna

http://www.countercurrents.org/krishna250314.htm

Rebuttal of Nandan Nilekani’s blog of March 24, 2014


Tensions In Ukraine: A Scramble For Growth?
By James Magnus-Johnston

http://www.countercurrents.org/jmjohnston250314.htm

The situation in Ukraine is undoubtedly complex, but it may be as much about a scramble for growth and fossil fuel as it is about ethno-cultural identity


Grab Guns And Kill Russians, Suggests A Ukraine Leader As Rightists Rob Passengers
By Countercurrents

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc250314.htm

One pro-EU-US leader has suggested grabbing guns to kill Russians while rightists, as a show of anarchy, are robbing train passengers


NATO Bombing Of Yugoslavia: 15 Years Later
By Countercurrents.org

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc250314A.htm

Yugoslavia was bombed for 78 days. About 2,000 Yugoslav citizens died in the bombings. The air invasion started 15 years ago, in 1999. NATO either completely destroyed or damaged 40,000 homes


An Invitation To First Lady, Michelle Obama
By Rosemarie Jackowski

http://www.countercurrents.org/jackowski250314.htm

Can you think of anything more arrogant than being a guest in someone's home and criticizing them because you don't like their drapes? Maybe yes, criticizing their drapes when you have none decorating the windows in your own home. Most people would agree that that behavior would cross the line. How could anyone be so lacking in common courtesy and finesse - especially when that person is a brilliant, well-educated First Lady


BJP And The Politics Of Polarization
By George Abraham

http://www.countercurrents.org/abraham250314.pdf

Unless the leaders of India, especially from the secular parties show some courage to stand up to fundamentalism that may emanate from any quarters whether it is Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian and stop exploiting religion and caste for vote bank politics, India‟s democracy is headed for serious trouble


You Vote I Vote He Vote She Vote
By Partha Banerjee

http://www.countercurrents.org/banerjee250314.htm

Another Five-Year Fun Comes to India. Can we think democracy differently?


Trading The Tragedy: A Perspective From The Border District Kupwara, Kashmir
By Sheikh Fayaz Ahmad

http://www.countercurrents.org/ahmad250314.htm

The rationale is to rewrite and re-examine the devastation, destruction, wreckage and loss which conflict has inflicted on a small population of around eight hundred thousand souls who live in a district which more resembles an established war laboratory, a graveyard, and a funeral ground for living and innocent bodies. I am talking of a border district of Kashmir, where I was born with dead souls lying adjacent to me and red blood flowing beneath my feet: A place where majority live a humiliated, tortured and disgraced life


Toyota Strike And The Scourge Of Contract Labour
By Alan Johnstone

http://www.countercurrents.org/johnstone250314.htm

The stand-off between Toyota India and its 6,400 employees in Bangalore continues. Members of the Toyota Kirloskar Motor Employees Union have now downed tools. Toyota Kirloskar Motors Vice Chairman - External Affairs Shekar Viswanathan told PTI. He said the issue with the workers' union at the plant has now gone beyond the wage hike negotiations