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Liquid War: Postcard From Pipelineistan |
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8-November-2009 |
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What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentric world order, also known as the New Great Game. Pepe Escobar writes more....
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The Unfolding Crisis in Pakistan |
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31-July-2009 |
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Strategically, the US covets Baluchistan for several reasons: it lies east of Iran, south of Afghanistan, and has three Arabian sea ports, including Gwadar, practically at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz. Once Pakistan is balkanised, the US could take control of Baluchistan's rich natural resources, and promote Gwadar for the benefit of TAPI, not IPI. That would fulfill the imperial dream..... Rahnuma Ahmed elaborates. |
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The dark side of Dubai |
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31-July-2009 |
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Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world. Sri Venkat writes more |
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As the story of subaltern grievances receded... |
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16-March-2009 |
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How did the story of the BDR rebellion at Pilkhana as being one of subaltern grievances pale away? Did it begin with the discovery of the bodies of the two army officers that had spewed out of the sewers at Kamrangir char? Or did it happen sometime later, when the first mass grave was discovered? rahnuma ahmed continues... |
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The World Health Organization’s complicity in controlling cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe |
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13-March-2009 |
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Cholera victims of Zimbabwe are dying for lack of a safe, inexpensive and relatively effective vaccine that could have saved thousands of lives. World Health Organization (WHO) that was created in 1948 as a special agency of the United Nations to act as a coordinating authority on international public health, appears ineffective in this emergency situation. Why? Investigates Ahmed Sadiq.
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People’s Tribunal on WB, IMF, ADB in Bangladesh gives verdict |
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5-December-2008 |
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Collective efforts to organize the tribunal began in October 2007. On November 3, 2007 the announcement of the preparatory committee and detail work plan was made. The committee could not realize all its plans, nor they could keep the time schedule. But they could complete its work. On December 1, 2008 the jury of the tribunal made the hearing and gave the verdict. Some newspaper reports on the declaration and final hearings are given below. |
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Obama: Wind of Change? |
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8-November-2008 |
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After celebrations of victory in elections, there always comes the shock awakening of realism. Will Obama make a difference as a President or will he prove to be another run of the mill politician or even a failure, bruised and battered by the neo-conservatives (neocons), whose hold on the economy is hardly shakable? Writes Zoglul Husain from UK. |
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The 2008 US Elections and the Prospects for Struggle |
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7-November-2008 |
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After hundreds of years of oppression--from when the first slaves were brought to the shores of North America, shackled in chains, having witnessed other Africans tossed overboard, whose remains still litter the Atlantic Ocean, the election of Barack Obama as the first Black U.S. president is historic. But that is not the end. Views from Workers World Party of USA.
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US Financial Crisis: What is it showing? |
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2-October-2008 |
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This is not surprising but it appears as shock to many. It seems that there will be more bankruptcies and government takeovers, with foreign banks and institutions joining their US counterparts, that Wall Street's collapse will deepen and prolong the US recession, if not worse. Why? Walden Bello elaborates. |
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The World Bank's New Poverty Estimates – Digging Deeper into a Hole |
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20-September-2008 |
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The World Bank has released an 'updated' global poverty estimates. These new numbers are based on a new worldwide price survey and a new benchmark international poverty. Can the Bank’s new estimates be trusted? Can they be trusted more than its own earlier greatly lower poverty estimates, which they are intended to replace? Sanjay G. Reddy investigates. |
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The Global Oil Price Story |
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5-August-2008 |
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The recent rise in the price of oil began in 2004. It is really only in the past year that the global oil price has behaved like a runaway horse, breaking all speed limits and previous barriers. It is common for policy makers and commentators in the developed world to argue that the current high oil prices are essentially the fault of the developing world. Jayati Ghosh investigates the real causes. |
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A Beginners Guide to Democracy |
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Analysis , by
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8-March-2008 |
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As a recipient of sudden surge of Western interest in Bangladesh, a poor, hapless nation, led often enough by wretched, self-serving leaders, as a recipient of endless lectures on democracy, often embellished by locomotive metaphors ('democracy derailed,' 'getting democracy back on track'), I have been at a total loss. So much is being expected of us. What are we to do? And, being part of the derailed 'us', what am I to do? Rahnuma Ahmed writes more. |
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