September 20, 2008

• Eyeless in Meeting the Challenge of Terror
  23 September 2008, by SC
  While the Wall Street faces a turmoil that impacts on the whole world including India as the media sarcastically dubs the US Administration’s $ 85 billion takeover of the American Insurance Group as the most eloquent manifestation of the  (...)
• Crisis of Capitalism
  23 September 2008, by Olga Tellis
  The Wall Street crisis which has seen the mightiest investment banks bite the dust and an insurance giant pleading for time to sets its finances straight seems more like the crisis of capitalism than just the crisis of a few financial  (...)
• It’s Enough Now, Uncle Sam!
  23 September 2008, by Suvrokamal Dutta
  Its time for the Indian Government to say to the United States of America:†It’s enough now, Uncle Sam!†As time passes by one after another explosive contents of the Indo-US nuclear deal is coming in front of the public eye. The deal right from  (...)
• Step Back from the Precipice of the Self-injurious N-Deal
  23 September 2008, by Brahma Chellaney
  Whatever happened to India’s vaunted “credible minimal deterrent†? Despite having Asia’s oldest nuclear programme, India still does not have a minimal, let alone credible, deterrent as defined by its own nuclear doctrine. Yet to secure a dubious  (...)
• Politics of the Nuclear Deal
  23 September 2008, by Kamala Prasad
  Even before the Civil Nuclear Agreement between India and the USA is signed, the opinion- makers and partisans have equally displayed euphoria that does not behove a mature democracy. Our partner, the USA, is free from any such display. Sober  (...)
• Brave New Words
  23 September 2008, by Sandhya Jain
  In the heat and dust raised by the manner in which India secured a questionable waiver at the Nuclear Suppliers Group in Vienna on September 6, 2008, many opponents predicted that the nuclear deal would mean only what the Americans said it would  (...)
• Land and Food Security in Kerala: The Issues are Much Bigger
  23 September 2008, by K Saradamoni
  Land and food security, these not difficult or confusing words attracted media attention for several weeks. That is currently subsided not because the problems are resolved, but newer and more catchy issues are cropping up almost daily to  (...)
• Singur Agitation and Beyond
  23 September 2008, by Arup Kumar Sen
  Very recently, the Mamata Banerjee-led movement against forcible land acquisition in Singur for the Tata small-car factory has taken a new turn. The Tata Group Chairman, Ratan Tata, has given an ultimatum to the West Bengal Government that if  (...)
• Securing Capitalist Accumulation for America’s Ruling Corporate Caste
  23 September 2008, by Eddie J Girdner
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  America is marked, as compared to the rest of the world, with a unique feature. If at all possible, every enterprise should be geared to the making of private profit. The public spirit, as such, scarcely exists, although it is  (...)
• Clinton’s Bombs for Votes
  23 September 2008, by Nikhil Chakravartty
  When the emperor has to go for elections, the subjects have to face the music. Nero was not the only one who fiddled when he let his capital being burnt down. The emperor of today cannot afford to let his capital being burnt down, because it is  (...)

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