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A child has lost its life during Delhi Development Authority’s demolition drive in Delhi Kathputli Colony, in West Delhi. One year old son of Jitu and Pooja, Aryan died late in the evening of 31st October. Yesterday, child’s house was destroyed by the authorities and the child and the parents stayed in the cold at night. It is believed that the child got pneumonia and died. Some colony dwellers say the child died due to suffocation caused by the use of tear gas by the police. A postmortem will be conducted on the child’s body to find out the exact cause of death.
As the environment collapses due to climate change and resource depletion the stock the GDP/markets countinue to soar? Is their some discrepancy in it? Jeremy Lent argues contrary to common sense, we could experience booming GDP and stock market valuations all the way to society’s imminent collapse.
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Kathputli Colony Demolition: One Year Old Child Dies
A child has lost its life during Delhi Development Authority’s demolition drive in Delhi Kathputli Colony, in West Delhi. One year old son of Jitu and Pooja, Aryan died late in the evening of 31st October. Yesterday, child’s house was destroyed by the authorities and the child and the parents stayed in the cold at night. It is believed that the child got pneumonia and died. Some colony dwellers say the child died due to suffocation caused by the use of tear gas by the police. A postmortem will be conducted on the child’s body to find out the exact cause of death.
The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics Of Collapse
by Jeremy Lent
Contrary to common sense, we could experience booming GDP and stock market valuations all the way to society’s imminent collapse.
Catalan Premier Appeals To EU As Opposition Mounts To Madrid’s Crackdown
by Alex Lantier
From Brussels, where he fled to escape prosecution by Spanish authorities, deposed Catalan regional premier Carles Puigdemont appealed yesterday for the European Union to intervene in the secession crisis. Last week, Madrid invoked Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution to impose an unelected regime in Catalonia in response to the October 1 Catalan independence referendum. Now Puigdemont is asking the EU to broker a deal between the Popular Party government in Madrid and the ousted Catalan authorities.
Fingerprints Of Islamic State On New York Attack
by Nauman Sadiq
Eight people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a truck mowed down people on a bike path in Lower Manhattan. FBI is treating the incident as an act of terrorism and the driver of the vehicle has been shot by the NYPD and taken into custody alive. The suspect has been identified as a 29-year-old Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov, which is a Russian variant of the Arabic name Saifullah Saif meaning the sword of Allah. It’s worth noting that the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in mid-2015, is one of the most fearsome affiliate of the Islamic State in the Central Asia region because its recruits have been motivated to fight to death.
Racism, Propaganda And Wars
by Kevin Zeese
This week, the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, which promoted giving Palestine to the Jewish people, will be celebrated in London. Around the world, there will be protests against it calling for Britain to apologize for the damage it inflicted. Students from the West Bank and Gaza will send letters to the British government describing the negative impacts that the Balfour Declaration, and the Nakba in 1948, continue to have on their lives today.
Walls And Militarized Police: How Israel Is Exporting Its Occupation To The United States
by Dr Ramzy Baroud
Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the US security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary Americans. US Senate Bill S.720 should have been a wake-up call. The Bill, drafted by the Israel lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), as part of its “2017 Lobbying Agenda” is set to punish any individual or company that boycotts Israel for its violation of Palestinian human rights.
Balfour’s Shadow
by Dr Ludwig Watzal
Review of David Cronin's "Balfour’s Shadow. A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel"
Madness on Horseback: The Charge At Beersheba
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Since that painful redrawing, nation states have warred, bickered and slaughtered. New states emerged, the offspring of part treachery, part opportunity, and colonial fantasy. Undertakings were ignored as the Ottoman Empire sundered. Irritable tribes were artificially captioned by fictional boundaries. Fitting, then, that the Beersheba commemorations should take place on Israeli soil.
Pranab Mukherjee Tells It All!
by Taj Hashmi
Since I haven’t seen his latest book yet, this piece isn’t about the book per se but what media has revealed from excerpts of the work, some of which are very revealing, and relevant to Bangladesh. This piece is all about the excerpts, which I consider very disturbing from the Bangladeshi perspective.
The ‘Undeclared Emergency’ And The State Of Media In India
by Hanan Zaffar
In the last half a decade Indian media has been rattled by the death of some prominent journalistic voices -allegedly by ever so strengthened right wing forces- with last month the latest victim being Gauri Lankesh, a senior journalist, editor and an activist. Known for being anti-establishment and also a strong critic of ultra nationalistic forces, her death, not astonishingly, was largely being considered as a political murder.
Do Not Forget The Anti-Sikh Pogrom of 1984!
by Peoples Union for Democratic Rights
To forget 1984, is to further the injustice done not just to those who died or were injured, but to the survivors and the long struggles for justice fought by the likes of Jagdish Kaur, Gurcharan Singh (who lost the use of his legs as he was burnt in the pogrom and died in 2009), and countless others. PUDR salutes the struggles for justice of those who have fought and continue to fight, and calls upon the judiciary to give at least a semblance of justice by punishing the guilty.
Most Awarded Prime Minister In India!
by K P Sasi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received more than eighty returned honours from artists, film makers, writers and even soldiers for different reasons. And I am sure, before he completes his term, the score will be more than hundred. If he beats a century, it could be a matter of a national pride for all of us
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