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Today is the 33rd anniversary of the horrific Bhopal gas leak disaster. The culprits have not been punished for the greatest industrial disaster in history. The victims have not been compensated either. There was little progress during 2017 on the most pressing issues concerning the gas-victims, which is a matter of serious concern. The current status of issues such as health care, enhancement of compensation, rehabilitation, prosecution of the accused, remediation of the environment, etc., are briefly recounted here
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33rd Anniversary Of The Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster
There was little progress during 2017 on the most pressing issues concerning the gas-victims, which is a matter of serious concern. The current status of issues such as health care, enhancement of compensation, rehabilitation, prosecution of the accused, remediation of the environment, etc., are briefly recounted here
Lebanon Facing Long ‘Independence’ Odds Given Iran’s Regional Triumphalism
by Franklin Lamb
Iran’s people, who are much like Lebanese and Americans in this observer’s opinion, may be allies with the people of Lebanon as they seek their Independence.Increasingly Iranians are rejecting their imposed Ali Khomeini Supreme Leader of Iran absolute dictatorship in favor of human rights and democracy and engaging with the outside World. Several of this observer’s Iranian friends wish Lebanon well and object to Iran’s involvement in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Bahrain and elsewhere in this region.
Holding Uber Accountable: Litigating Over Data Hacks
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
It sent patrons and users into fits of puzzled anger. It numbed a good many more who had placed mistaken faith in its operations. Rapacious, predatory Uber, a ride-hailing company famed for its international ruthlessness, had behaved accordingly. Last week, the firm revealed that it had received a massive hack in 2016, failing to notify customers and regulators that a breach of security had taken place.
Some Recent Reasons To Distrust American-Allied ‘News’Media
by Eric Zuesse
http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/12/03/some-recent-reasons-to-distrust-american-allied-newsmedia/
Some Recent Reasons to Distrust American-Allied ‘News’Media
Only enough of the openings of these articles are included here so as to indicate the gist, about the rape of the public’s minds, by the ‘news’media. To see the articles themselves, click onto the given article’s URL, which is shown at its start of each of these articles as presented here
Why The Wait For The City Bus Gets Longer
by Vidyadhar Date
The proposed high speed Mumbai-Ahmedabad rail project falls in this category. It is unfair to condemn as Luddites those opposing fancy projects. Research shows that popular concepts about Luddites are wrong. Luddites in England were not opposed to machinery as such. They were protesting against an oppressive system and attacks on their livelihoods.
Marital Rape Judgment, Gender Justice And RSS Position
by Jayashubha
The Supreme Court recently gave the judgment that sex with minor wife can be considered a rape but if 18 years and beyond, marital rape cannot be considered a criminal offence. As per exception 2 of section 375 of IPC sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under 18 years of age, is not rape
The Indian Village: A Window Into Indian Society
by Moin Qazi
The Indian village has been celebrated by every poet who has admitted to having been touched by India including Rudyard Kipling and Rabindranath Tagore. Social scientists of the past wrote about Indian villages as virtually self-sufficient communities with few ties to the outside world. There is nothing unusual or novel in the city-bred person’s belief in the regenerative powers of the village. This nostalgia has been expressed since the 19th century in literary form in fiction and poetry and in political form through the slogan: `Back to the villages‘.
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