Egypt’s State-Controlled Unions Under Pressure With the authoritarian state excerting such efforts to manipulate and control the unions – by suspending all resemblance of internal democracy – the line between economic and political demands grows very thin. Any worker raising his or her voice against bad working conditions of low salaries is also engaging in [...]
Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power. Over 20,000 killed. Over half a million victims maimed, disabled or otherwise affected. Compensation of around Rs.12,414 per victim on average on the 1989 value of the rupee. ($470 million or Rs.713 crore. And that divided [...]
The US should keep its distance. This dispute highlights the importance of the institutional changes that the left-of-centre governments in Latin America are trying to make. The increasing importance of Unasur, displacing the OAS, has become vital to Latin American progress and stability. A process of South American diplomacy could resolve the Colombia-Venezuela dispute. In [...]
Appeal Made in the Name of the People by Com. Prachanda, Chairman, Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) On 26 April 2010 The historic responsibility to accomplish the peace process into a logical end and write the new People’s Federal Constitution from the Constituent Assembly based on the Foundation of the People’s War, the 12-Point [...]
Just a morning’s boat ride from the tip of Florida is a place where medical costs are low and doctors plentiful. It’s Cuba, and Stanford University physician Paul Drain says it’s time for the United States to pay attention to our neighbor’s shoestring success. Despite a 50-year trade embargo by the United States and a [...]
Transcript Mar 30th 2010 , by Cindy Sheehan, Hugo Chavez Cindy Sheehan: Welcome to this video and audio audition of Cindy Sheehan’s SoapBox. Presidente Chavez, thank you for being on the show, thank you for this interview and thank you for allowing me to bring the truth about Venezuela and about you and about your [...]
Great powers are allied against this revolution. India, the United States and the entire disinformation machinery we call mainstream media (from left to right) has insisted that communism is done. And can be killed in silence should it raise its face. Here people are doing it . And it is those people who need honest [...]
Orissa is the poorest State with an official estimate of 39.9 per cent of people living below the poverty line, yet in regard to proposed investment it stood at second position after Gujarat. According to Assocham Investment Meter, recorded investment proposals in Orissa reached Rs. 2,00,846 crore in 2009. The cause is the availability of [...]
There is a dialectic at work in Venezuela.The dialectical relationship between Chávez and the masses has driven the process within Venezuela forward so far; whether it continues, will depend on the initiatives of both sides. That means the necessity from the top and the bottom to struggle against the obstacles Michael A. Lebowitz Iain Bruce, [...]
The future of the dollar is in jeopardy. The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of the main reserve currency any longer. We need a new currency system. by futureofdollar.com Global Research, February 18, 2010 futureofdollar.com – 2010-02-17 The World is concerned that the dollar cannot play the role of the [...]