Unfortunately for the Washington Consensus institutions and their blue-eyed boys in Third World governments, the Guru himself has spoken out with brutal frankness about the effects that the ...

For instance, it would make it impossible for about half of U.S. lands to sustain the types of plants and animals that now inhabit them. A huge portion of America's protected areas, large and small, ...

Successive Finance Minister's have spared no effort in eulogizing agriculture. Presenting the Budget 2003-2004, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh had remarked that agriculture is the life blood of our ...

The wages of fu ...

Almost all Srinagar residents want peace, azadi, and an end to the authoritarianism of Indian forces. AMIT CHAKRABORTY, who observed the recently-concluded elections in J&K, explains why the polls ...

Prabhu has already hinted at the possibility of levying interlinking surcharge or water tax but the upcoming Union Budget is unlikely to have any such reflection given the fact that elections are only ...

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In perhaps the most comprehensive such study to date, Scorecard on Globalization 1980-2000, Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker and other researchers at the Center for Economic and Policy Research documented ...

This is a view that is held by many advocates of the free software movement, who are disappointed by the willingness of State and Central government agencies to rub shoulders with Gates and rely on ...

The World Social Forum, India consultation meeting held at Nagpur, on 21-22 March, 2003, has decided to host the World Social Forum, 2004 in Mumbai in India. A brief note on the decision as well as ...

The democracy, however imperfect, that we are, it's not possible to suppress active opposition of the multitude, certainly not for long, as Indira Gandhi learnt the hard way. Thus, for any action to ...