“History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ”
She said the resistance in central India was a fight against injustice and not a rebellion against the state as the government says it is. “The government is on the side of the corporates who want to take over the lands, forests, rivers, the traditional homes of the tribals. Operation Green Hunt follows the Bush doctrine of you are with us, or against us,” she said.
-By Saba Navalan
From Pope to Barack Obama, everyone is feels the need for a New World Order and come out with statements every day. World’s most influential economists have been debating alternative economic policies. The economies of US and Europe have been protected for just three years from an imminent downfall.
This is not the first [...]
We have several evidence of the genocide and the war crime committed by the Sri Lankan government during the war against LTTE. In the following video, the sri Lankan government treats the dead LTTE guarders like animals and we have evidence for the usage of chemical weapons [...]
(By Nilantha Ilangamuwa )
May 03, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Post independence Sri Lanka is preoccupied with political skullduggery than considering real progress of the country. Persons installed in power have time and again conned their way forward and the present President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapakse is not an exemption to this historical duplicity.
It [...]
They blame the inevitable failure of capitalism on excessive borrowing and consumption. They find fault with the “have-nots” and have started drafting policies to exploit them more. Imperialism is a system that serves the powers that be. It has no connections with democracy.
Retired Major General Patrick Cammaert, a top United Nations envoy urged Sri Lanka on Friday to release detained Tamil Tiger child soldiers and asked the authorities to re-unite them with their families.
Retired Major General Patrick Cammaert, the UN special envoy on children and armed conflict, said children who had been conscripted by the Tiger rebels [...]
Indian Supreme Court on Monday extendend its stay on all further proceedings in Gujarat High Court relating to the killing of teenager girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in a fake encounter with the state police.
A bench of Justices B Sudershan Reddy and G S Singhvi said its Novermber 30 order staying the proceedings would [...]
A few minutes past midnight on Dec 3, 1984, the world’s worst industrial disaster started to unfold. 27 tons of highly toxic gas (MIC) leaked out of a storage tank from Union Carbide’s pesticide factory in Bhopal leaving thousands of people dead and several thousand more maimed for life and generations to come.
For the survivors, [...]
Saroj Giri , Monthly Review
“What made Spence dangerous to the bourgeoisie was not that he was a proletarian nor that he had ideas opposed to private property but that he was both.” — Peter Linebaugh.2
It is always easy to criticize and dismiss an argument in its weakest formulation. Attacking the policies of the security-centric Indian [...]
The Indian government’s propaganda that Maoist resurgence was witnessed in over 160 districts across at least 15 states is an exaggeration. The depiction of Maoist resurgence as an internal threat by the media helps the Indian state keep the failure of the 60-year-old state in addressing the basic needs of millions of its poor under [...]