India is experiencing the worst drought conditions in perhaps a century. Bangalore, the “Ooty” of poor southerners, clocked 39.2 degree Celsius on April 25, unheard of in 85 years! Odisha in east India is sizzling hot, close to 50 degree Celsius. The poor in India are groaning, the “aam admi” cannot afford the luxury of an air conditioner in his house.
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For the last five years, the history of Egypt, like that of many other Arab states, has been a succession of conspiracies, violence, announcements and denials. Everything that international public opinion has believed at one moment or another has been called into question by new elements. Thierry Meyssan attempts here to separate truth from fiction, while as...
Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamath, an organisation termed as a pan-Indian body with lakhs of members by none other than the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, gave a call for a ‘Battle of Badr’ on 28 July 2015. The Egypt-Israel War, Kargil War and the Taliban Offensive were all termed as “Badr Wars” or “Battles of Badr”. The organisation openly called for planned violen...
Deutsche Bank, Germany’s once-respected giant bank, has admitted being a party – together with a cartel of major Wall Street and select other international banks – in deliberately manipulating the price of gold over a period of years. As well, the German bank, in a court settlement with litigants in a US court, has agreed to name the names of other big banks...
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We believe if India as a nation is to survive, the survival of nationalist Jammu province and nationalist people of Jammu and Kashmir is an historical necessity, the need of the under-attack nation. We just can’t allow anti-nationals to create a situation that rid Kashmir of all nationalists in early 1990. We have to fight and defeat the hate and defeat-Indi...
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The people of India have been kept in the dark, so far, by the Indian political class -- which has ruled India for the last seven decades -- about the truths of Jammu and Kashmir. Contrary to the common belief, Jammu and Kashmir is not a part of the secular and democratic political organization of India. From time to time, Jammu and Kashmir has been variousl...
The gloomy and repulsive night when the female president of the 7th largest economy in the world was the prey of choice fed to a lynch mob of hyenas in a drab, provincial Circus Maximus will forever live in infamy.
By 367 votes for and 137 against, the impeachment/coup/regime change-light drive against Dilma Rousseff cleared the Brazilian Congressional circ...
The last round of Geneva talks regarding Syria ended in a stalemate due to the immovable position held by the Syrian opposition. The opposition, sponsored and controlled by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United States and a number of Western players, is convinced that the elected president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, should go no matter what, while none of his sup...
Although the economic situation in Russia is much more difficult than in France, Russian TV viewers massively followed the programme “Direct Line with Vladimir Putin”, while the French showed scarce interest in “Citizen Dialogues with François Hollande”. The audience levels of the two programmes correspond to the public support garnered respectively by each ...
You have to pay obeisance to Israel if you want to become the US President. You have to swear your full compliance with Israel’s demands. You have to run to AIPAC and declare your eternal love of the Jewish state. This is a truism, like “Monsieur de la Palisse was alive fifteen minutes before his...
How much is the actual increase in the total allocation to agriculture in the budget for 2016-17? This year’s budget markets itself as a pro-poor and pro-farmer budget. Ashok Gulati, chair professor for agriculture at ICRIER, tells us why this budget is insignificant for reducing farmers’ distress, despite all the tall talk:
“The RE of last year for the Mi...
“Though, I was born a Hindu, I solemnly assure you that I will not die as a Hindu.” So said Dr B.R. Ambedkar, independent India’s first Law Minister, who is credited with reviving Buddhism centuries after its decimation by iconoclasts. As Ambedkar renounced his Hindu roots in despair over repeated indignities heaped upon him, and led his followers into the B...
Myanmar’s political transition is being hailed by Western politicians, special interests, and its media as “historic” and a new beginning for “democracy” in the Southeast Asian nation.
However, even before Myanmar political opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party rose to power, the facts contradicted the fiction Western politicians and pundits had spent ...
Contrary to what may appear to be the case, the “Panama Papers” campaign will not lead to restraining embezzlements of funds, nor to expanding liberties, but the exact opposite. The system is going to consolidate a bit more around the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States and Israel, so that these and only these will control it. By violating the...
The terror bombings in Paris and Brussels have raised a cacophony of voices, ranging from state officials, Prime Ministers and Presidents, to academics, journalists and media consultants. Tons of ink and print have focused on the psychology, networks and operations of the alleged perpetrators – radicalized young Muslim citizens of the...
Narendra Modi, while addressing the drought-hit farmers in a rally at Bargarh in western Odisha on Feb 21, lambasted the opposition parties, foreign-funded NGOs, chemical industries and a few other enemies that were conspiring to destabilise his government. He said that they could not digest a tea seller ruling the country and the action taken by his governm...
The Pakistan envoy to India, Abdul Basit, stunned India by unilaterally announcing the suspension of the peace process and saying the dispute over Jammu and Kashmir is the root cause of mutual distrust between the two nations.
Have we not heard this before? The only constant is India’s inability to understand the...
The Hindu Munnani (Hindu Front) documentary showcases how the fundamentalist organisations continue with their activities and how the government machineries yield to their pressure and turn a blind eye to their atrocities.
Fundamentalists who attacked Hindu religion, culture and temples and claim that ‘idol worship’ is against the tenets of Islam,...
“To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing” - Raymond Williams
An old story well known to a few has been brought a new life for many with revelations of the rich stashing their wealth in tax havens that cost the rest of us trillions in their unpaid denial of social bills and national responsibilities. A whistle blower-leak...
Latin America boasts of a population of around 626 million and has a combined GDP of $5.5 trillion; India’s population is around 1.2 billion and GDP $2.1 trillion. Latin America’s natural resources, agricultural produce and strong social infrastructure and India’s large market and expertise in the service sector offer huge trading potential due...
We don’t need the empire to give us anything. Our efforts will be legal and peaceful, because our commitment is to peace and fraternity among all human beings who live on this planet.
The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land...
No one can claim to understand what goes on within the Kurdish mind except the Kurds themselves, perhaps not all the Kurds do either.
It is rather amazing that non-Kurds expect Kurds to have one voice, one aspiration, one political orientation, and as if all other nations are united in a manner that is manifested in a single voice. How interesting! Is there...
Sirisena government’s positive vibes
President Sirisena’s government has taken a few small, but important, actions to show it is sincere in its efforts to fulfill the electoral promises on good governance and reconciliation. The actions include: introduction of the Right to Information (RTI) bill in parliament, vacation of the Sampoor naval base created in ...
In a veiled attack on Bt cotton seed supplier Mahyco Monsanto Hybrid Biotech (India), Union Agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh pointedly said that a Bt cotton seed company had exploited Indian cotton farmers by hiking seed prices regularly and unfairly. The minister added, “If the farmer is in any kind of distress, government will not tolerate it. We are...
The vote bank politics and appeasement policies followed by the government emboldened the jihadis to spread their extremism faster and further as evidenced by the issues related to the films Innocence of Muslims and Vishwaroopam and the Ambur and Ramanathapuram riots in the aftermath of the deaths of accused...
On Holi, last month, Muslims in some cities stepped forward to shower festival processions with petals and participate in ‘Holika dahan’, symbolising the triumph of purity over evil. This is not the first time the community has made such spontaneous gestures of goodwill. But it is a time when voices within Indian Islam are struggling to be heard on issues of...
The editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, Can Dündar, who was recently freed from prison, published the op-ed column in Le Monde that we are reproducing here. He reveals the stakes of the agreement negotiated between the European Union and Turkey – not to have to assume the consequences of the deliberate destabilisation of Syria in exchange for 3 billion Euros per ...
We don’t yet know who ordered the attacks in Paris and Brussels. Several potential leads have been mentioned, but only the hypothesis of an operation decided by Turkey has any serious backing. Thierry Meyssan describes the secret conflict which, for the last five years, has haunted the relations between the European Union, France and...
The ISIS announced its arrival in Lahore by bombing the Easter festivities at Gulshan-e-Iqbal in which nearly 72 persons, mostly Christians, were killed.[1] A militant outfit, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), claimed responsibility for the mayhem. The number of injured is reported to be around 300 and the death toll is expected to rise, according to a local official. ...
The Fiscal Responsibility & Budget management Act (FRBM) hurriedly passed by the Vajpayee government in 2003 has severe consequences detrimental to the Indian economy and national sovereignty. The Act is nefarious and in one stroke the Indian State has surrendered the nation’s economic freedom to global money...