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All of you know that a genocide is going on in Myanmar against the hapless Rohingyas as the world stands by and watch the slow motion horror.
Dr Ramzy Baroud tells us that the reason behind the world inaction is because of Big Oil who are interested in the black gold lying beneath the Rohingya soil.
Mohammad Yousuf Najar implores that the world has to step up and take action NOW!
Kavaljit Singh writes a well reasoned article on India's demonetisation fiasco.
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The Genocide Of The Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy And False Prophets
by Dr Ramzy Baroud
Certainly, the horrible fate of the Rohingya is not entirely new. But what makes it particularity pressing is that the west is now fully on the side of the very government that is carrying out these atrocious acts. And there is a reason for that: Oil.
Rohingya Muslims And Our Immediate Responsibilities
by Mohammad Yousuf Najar
The responsible heads and the elite class of Muslim states must discard their narrow fights and get themselves mobilized internationally in order to defend the Rohingya Muslims in international forums like UN, ICC. They must force their local governments to kick out the ambassadors of this Buddhist state without any delay. The good for nothing OIC must deliver now or get packed.
Has Demonetization Achieved Its Stated Objectives?
by Kavaljit Singh
The government needs to explain why it pursued a shock and awe strategy through demonetization when it already has a wide variety of policy instruments to achieve same objectives?
GM Mustard And The Indian Government: The Game Is Up, The Emperor Has No Clothes!
by Colin Todhunter
The next stage of the case involving the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) mustard in India is to be heard on 15 September in the Supreme Court (SC). GM mustard could be India’s first commercially cultivated GM food crop, which could very well open the floodgates to the commercialisation of various other food crops that are in the pipeline.
Destabilizing Egypt; Ethiopia’s Nile River Dam
by Thomas C Mountain
Ethiopia’s new “ Grand Renaissance Dam”, scheduled to be completed next year, will take close to half (40%) of the Nile River’s water every year for the next 5 years as it fills up. How is Egyptian President Al Sisi going to survive for the next 5 years without almost half the Nile’s water when the country is presently suffering serious water and hydroelectric shortages, never mind crippling inflation, growing hunger and a terrorist insurgency?
Steve Bannon’s Crystal Ball: A Split In The GOP
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Rarely does the virus speak so formidably to the condition he is a product of. The soiling, devastating strategist Steve Bannon, despite exiting the Trump administration, remains within it (symbolically at least), moving about with effect and influence. But it is a legacy of mixed curses that bodes ill for the Republican Party.
The American Military Uncontained , Out Everywhere And Winning Nowhere
by William J Astore
When it comes to the “world’s greatest military,” the news has been shocking. Two fast U.S. Navy ships colliding with slow-moving commercial vessels with tragic loss of life. An Air Force that has been in the air continuously for years and yet doesn’t have enough pilots to fly its combat jets. Ground troops who find themselves fighting “rebels” in Syria previously armed and trained by the CIA.
Three 9-11s: Satyagraha Launch (1906), Chile Coup (1973) & US False Flag (2001)
by Dr Gideon Polya
The world has marked the 16th anniversary of the US 9-11 atrocity in which about 3,000 people were killed. However unremarked are the 32 million Muslims killed through violence, 5 million, or deprivation, 27 million, in the post-9-11 US War on Terror; the 1973 US-backed Chilean Coup on 9-11 (3,000 killed, 300,000 subsequent deaths from deprivation); and the 1906 founding on 9-11 of Gandhi’s Satyagraha that ultimately saved 700 million Indian lives in the half century after Indian Independence.
100 Percent Wishful Thinking: The Green-Energy Cornucopia
by Stan Cox
The debate about hope ignores the relevant question: what are we hoping for? If our hope is to deploy solar and wind capacity that maintains indefinitely the current throughput of energy in the world’s affluent societies, then, yes, the situation is hopeless. But there can be other hopes that, although they’re looking dim for now, are at least within reach: that greenhouse warming can be limited sufficiently to allow communities around the world who are currently impoverished and oppressed to improve their lives; that access to food, water, shelter, safety, culture, nature, and other necessities becomes sufficient for all; or that exploitation and oppression of humans and nature be brought to an end.
Responsibility For The “Opioid Epidemic”–Corruption, Collusion And Criminal Negligence
by Dr Nayvin Gordon
Well over a hundred thousand people have overdosed and died, and there are now 3 million addicts as the epidemic continues to devastate families across the nation.
Barcelona’s Decidim: An Open-Source Platform for Participatory Democracy Projects
by Kevin Stark
The word Decidim translated from Catalan means we decide, and it’s the name of Barcelona’s digital infrastructure for participatory democracy. One part functional database and one part political statement, organizers say Decidim is key to a broad digital transformation that is taking place in Barcelona — its institutions, markets, and economy. Organized by the Barcelona City Council, Barcelona’s citizens participate in a new digital commons, and its organizers hope that technology can improve democratic participation and foster good government
Can There Be ‘Love And Compassion’ In Politics?
by Shiveshwar Kundu
Emotions in politics are always being neglected and side-lined. Liberal democracies broad understanding of public sphere which is based on ‘reason’ and ‘individual freedom’ is backfiring.It is in this background this paper tries to shed some light on the way we associate with politics and its various outcome. Along with this, it also tries to analyse the upsurge of right-wing forces throughout the world which has unleashed sentiments of hatred. Can this upsurge be understood through increasing role of perverted emotion in contemporary politics (public sphere)? Can ‘left principles and politics’ be the option in these unique circumstances which has pitched human being against human being, would be the further scope of discussion?
Plato’s Theory of Communism
by Ish N Mishra
Plato’s theory of communism is just opposite to Marxian theory of communism that seeks to eventually establish a classless and hence stateless society, as according to it the state is instrument of the domination in the hands of ruling classes. Plato’s theory of communism that is used as one of instruments of consolidation of the hierarchically ‘well ordered’ state through perpetuating class-division and class-domination, the other instrument being the education. Plato’ Republic seeks to establish justice, i.e. the ideal state where the philosophers, selflessly, rule over the masses involved in the material production of the society, with the help of the armed auxiliaries. Plato’s theory of communism is based on his belief of corrupting influences of family and property over people holding the public offices that remains a historic fact and continuing norm. It is aimed at freeing the ruling classes, i.e. the philosophers and the warriors from the institutions of f
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Please Sign This Petition. I Desperately Need Help!
by Sally Dugman
A couple with a relatively small acreage was poor in their elder years and, so, they let the town have their property after their deaths (since they had no children) in exchange for paying no taxes on it — a money pay-out that they could not afford. … And now the town wants to sell it at a big profit to a developer! … beautiful land with wetlands and lots of plant and animal wildlife.
Malyali Samajam Sets An Example
by Gurpreet Singh
The Vancouver chapter of Malyali Samajam has set an example of how to preserve diversity and pluralism when religious fanaticism continues to grow in India under a right wing Hindu nationalist government.
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