Enslavement!
Palash Biswas
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Aamar Gram, Tomar Gram, Shobar Gram: Nandigram,
Nandigram
My Village; Your Village; Everybody's village.
Nandigram. Nandigram
Enslavement is the name of Power game infinite!
It had been Manusmriti which enslaved eighty five percent native Indians to sustain brahminical system. Columbus was the father of colonial rule worldwide. The Genocide continues and Nandigram bleeds.
It is Post Modern Manusmriti, the Hindu Zionist Global Order. Restructurization of demographies continue with Annihilitions! Earth is a planet now full of Bloodstreams!
Pl see and realise how Washington dictates Polity and Economy, how it gets enslaved nationalities and Nations!
Domestic car sales in the financial year that ended March 31 rose 22 percent from the year before to 1,076,408 from 882,208 in 2005/06, an industry body said on Wednesday.
People starve and polity detached. Death takes toll in industries, agro sector and tea gardens but the shining ,TO BE Super Power India is striving its best for Luxury connectios and Technology Supreme for Blue film Revolution! Open market is a Condom bazar meant for eternal Bedtime and the mood is Beauty Pageant!
Thus the Bastardised System works so fine!
IMF decides what RBI and Finance minister of India should do!
Hidu Rashtra is a hatred campaign against Muslims and it is well in line with the War Launched by US corporate imperialism against Terrorism!
Enslavement is in vogue right into our families where wo do consider children and women nothing else but Property.
Discrimination, aperthied and untouchability are the symptom of this rotten system.
Would you rise against Enslavement, friends?
The new rules guiding the special economic zones (SEZ) may put a question mark on six sanctioned projects in Maharashtra, home to the largest number of SEZs. The empowered group of ministers had on Thursday stopped state governments from acquiring land for SEZs promoted by private players. The rules are applicable to SEZs cleared after February 10, 2006. On the other hand,
amidst fresh demands from CPM on the controversial Special Economic Zone issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said SEZ is now a fact of life but any changes could be considered.
"SEZ law is a fact of life. A Group of Minister (GoM) is looking into what guidelines can be formulated," he said on the sidelines of Defence Investiture ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The ongoing SEZ controversy continued to brew with the CPI(M) not only rejecting the proposals of the empowered group of ministers (eGoM) but threatening to rake up the issue in Parliament, if the Centre did not pay heed to its suggestion.
On the other hand, the CPI, which was initially open to the concept of SEZ, has suddenly turned around and joined the other Left constituents in demanding scrapping of the policy. The CPI(M) remains the only Left outfit, which wants the policy to be implemented with with certain changes.
ACT NOW to prevent a repeat of Nandigram in Orissa!
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Shri Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Orissa
Address: Naveen Nivas, Aerodrome Road,
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* A multi-billion dollar steel MNC to take over
4500 acres of land
* A State Government determined to help the
company
* 15 Platoons of Armed paramilitary forces
* Three villages that have barricaded themselves
in a bid to protect their land
Tension on Wednesday prevailed in a dozen seaside villages near Paradip, the site for South Korean major Posco's proposed steel plant, due to a face-off between a large contingent of armed police and villagers opposed to the project. Apprehending that personnel standing by at Kujang police station might swoop down on their villages to clear bamboo gates they had erected to bar the entry of government officials and security forces, the villagers were preparing themselves to resist any police action. The administration, however, asserted that police wanted to remove the bamboo gates as panchayat polls, which could not be held in 13 booths in the area in February, were to be conducted there. It said there was no link to the Posco project.
March 14 and onwards
Villagers in Nandigram killed in police firing on march 14th, when around 5000 policemen and many CPM cadre moved in to occupy the area.
Newspaper reports put the death toll between 6 and 32 (biases and govt censorship) but actual death toll is more than 100. (reference ) Hundreds more have been injured severely. Many women and children are among those killed and injured.
Around 600 people are missing according to latest reports on bengali news channels.
Contrary to CPI(M)'s claims, Trinamul congress and Maoists are not at the centrestage of the resistance against
There are reports that the govt is not letting people access to bodies of relatives, in fact bodies are being put in plastic bags and thrown into the sea.
Due to bold (and even violent) resistance by the people, some policemen have also been injured (not one has been killed). The govt and sections of the media are trying to exaggerate and shift focus to this.
The area had been a no-entry zone for policemen and the state administration for more than two months.
Many left-leaning intellectuals and artists have denounced the CPM and have strongly come out in support of the Nandigram villagers.
Intellectuals and artists who have protested strongly: Nabaneeta Dev Sen (writer), Romila Thapar (historian), Arundhati Roy (writer), Tanika Sarkar (historian), Sumit Sarkar (historian), Jean Dreze (Economist), Bibhas Chakraborty (theatre), Monoj Mitra (theatre), Ashoke Mukhopadhyay (theatre), Kaushik Sen (theatre), Bratya Basu (theatre), Nabarun Bhattacharya (writer)
http://bengalresistance.blogspot.com/
See this story! How land reforms achievements are being used to justify eviction of Rural India!
Index of equity
APARAJITA BAKSHI
A recent study shows that West Bengal is a leader with respect to redistribution of land to Dalit and Adivasi households.
IN the heat of the current debate on land acquisition in West Bengal, and in the aftermath of the violence in Nandigram, some critics have questioned the basic character of development in the State. They have attempted variously to portray the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Left Front as organisations of upper-caste elites whose interests, by implication, are distant from those of the socially oppressed, or West Bengal as a State where the plight of the Dalit and Adivasi masses, under globalisation and liberalisation, is no different from their plight elsewhere in the country. Even preliminary research on Dalit and Adivasi households in village economies and their access to land in West Bengal shows that such views have little basis in the reality of the post-land reform West Bengal countryside.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070420001404200.htm
Make us boys, cry girls
- Study exposes widespread child abuse, shatters myth and rips veil
CHARU SUDAN KASTURI
New Delhi, April 9: Hang your head in shame, Grown-up India. Almost half your girls want to be boys because of the way you treat them.
Overcome by a feeling of neglect and apathy, over 48 per cent girls surveyed for a first-ever nation-wide study on child abuse have said they would rather be boys.
More than 70 per cent said they felt “neglected” by their parents in a damning indictment of Adult India that has yet to come to terms with the horror of Nithari.
As many as 12,447 children in the 12-18 age group were each asked 135 questions in what the government said was the largest such survey ever conducted in the world. Spread across 13 states and carried out over two years, the survey covered 5,981 girls, too.
Bengal, the self-professed capital of political correctness and concern for others, has a wart too many to hide.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070410/asp/frontpage/story_7628337.asp
the Kuki rebels are coming together in Manipur, in India's heartland the dreaded Naxal militants are also forging new links, which many say is behind the new and bloody chapter of Naxal violence.
But is the unity real or is it to conceal personality clashes and competing violence between these groups in India's red corridor?
Inside the forests along the borders between Jharkhand and Orissa, Naxal leaders from across the country are once again displaying their new unified strength.
In September 2004, the two biggest Naxal groups, the People's War led by Andhra Naxalites and MCC or Maoist Communist Centre, the Jharkhand based Naxal outfit, formally merged.
The merger created the CPI Maoist - an umbrella Naxal force stretching from Andhra, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Orissa to Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh - literally a red corridor through the heart of the nation.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070008293
Citigroup announced today that it would eliminate or reassign more than 26500 jobs as part of a sweeping overhaul to cut costs and streamline the global bank’s sprawling operations.
WEST INDIES were in turmoil yesterday amid allegations they were non-committed party boys who didn't care after they were ruthlessly ejected from the World Cup.
Both the Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar and Infosys mentor N.R. Narayan Murthy find themselves in similar controversies. While Sachin was found cutting a cake in the colours of the national flag during the Indian team's stay in the West Indies, the Infosys chief is embroiled in a controversy over his alleged remarks on the national anthem during President Kalam's visit to the Infy facility in Mysore. If there has been an insult, they can be prosecuted under the "The Prevention of Insult to National Honour Act, 1971".
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Insult_to_flag_anthem_can_lead_to_jail/articleshow/1893074.cms
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ministers from four trade powers kicked off two days of meetings on Wednesday aimed at galvanising global free trade talks, with Brazil saying it was urgent to find areas of agreement.The United States, the European Union, India and Brazil will talk bilaterally before coming together on Thursday, their first four-way meeting since July when the World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations all but collapsed over agriculture.
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson met U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab and then Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, while India's Trade Minister Kamal Nath was expected to meet them later and Schwab was scheduled to see Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - Police in Bangladesh have brought charges against 56 political leaders, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, for killing several people during violence in Dhaka last year, officials said on Wednesday.Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and his nine party leaders were among those charged with killing a number of activists during street campaigns on Oct. 28.Senior leaders of Hasina's 14-party alliance had also been charged with the same offence because open rioting by the two groups had resulted in the deaths of 10 people, police said.
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2007-04-11T183950Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-293874-1.xml&archived=False
Having revised short-term lending rates at regular intervals in the past few months, the Reserve Bank shares concerns of the IMF on the impact of capital flows and remains worried over continuing inflationary expectations. Concerns raised by RBI Governor Y V Reddy in his interaction with industry and financial market representatives ahead of monetary policy review are similar to a warning sounded by the international monetary fund against the "volatility shock" in the emerging markets.
Apparently rejecting criticism that RBI`s frequent rate hikes may stunt growth, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said world over central banks were taking such measures to contain inflation.
"Inflation expectations loom large in most parts of the world. Therefore, many central banks have responded pro-actively to tighten liquidity so that inflation is held in check," he told global market regulators here. Voicing concern over the uncertainties on global interest and exchange rates, he said they posed a potential threat to financial stability of the emerging economies.
Chidambaram foresaw many challenges before the capital markets and said every country should be prepared to meet the challenges of globalisation. "Inflow and outflow of capital would continue to pose difficult problems. We have to live with some degree of volatility in the equity market, forex market and debt market irrespective of the level of capital account convertibility."
Emerging Asia, driven by fast-growing giants China and India, faces a "very positive" near-term growth outlook and should be able to withstand a U.S. slowdown, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
Questions remain, however, about demand for electronics exports from countries like South Korea, Taiwan and ASEAN countries, and some countries face the risk of a shock if the Japanese yen carry trade unwinds dramatically, the IMF said in its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook.
China, meanwhile, is still experiencing excessive investment, much of it by inefficient state-owned enterprises whose investments are a burden on banks and on corporate profits, it said.
The IMF forecast that emerging Asia as a whole would grow 8.4 percent in 2007 and 8.0 percent in 2008, with regional locomotive China's growth for the two years to be 10 percent and 9.5 percent, respectively. India is expected to expand 8.5 percent this year and 7.8 percent in 2008, the outlook said.
"One question in assessing growth prospects for the region is how a sharper-than-expected slowdown in the United States would affect the region," the IMF said.
Fallout from a U.S. slowdown would be "relatively well contained" because, with the key exception of China, importance to the region of the U.S. market has declined amid growing inter-regional trade, the report said.
In addition, a U.S. slowdown centered on the American housing sector would have a muted effect on demand for Asian exports, while demand for electronics remained mostly firm, the IMF said.
"Against this background, the near-term outlook for growth in the region remains very positive," it said.
"On the downside, a sharper-than-anticipated slowdown in the demand for Asian exports in general, and electronic goods in particular, could undercut growth," the IMF warned.
Terming the contents of the CD brought out by the BJP in Uttar Pradesh as "inflammatory" and "offensive", the National Commission of Minorities (NCM) today asked both the Central and state governments to take serious note of the development and its grave implications for communal peace. The Election Commission has adjourned the hearing on the controversial CD released by the BJP and plea to de-recognise the party till Thursday.Meanwhile, the BJP continues to take on Election Commissioner Naveen Chawla. On Wednesday, the party argued to keep Chawla out of the case as a case seeking his removal filed by the BJP is pending before the Supreme Court.
From: bhaskar gupta
Subject: CPI(M) Attack on Keshab Mukherjee, Editor, Swadhin Bangla
Protest Meeting on 12th March, 2007, 8B Bus Stand, Jadavpur
Dear Friend,
On 7th April, Saturday, an armed violent mob, claiming allegiance to CPI(M) , brutally attacked a street corner meeting of APDR arranged to protest against the genocides and atrocities at Singur, Nanigram and other places of West Bengal. The incident happened at about 7-30 pm near 8B bus stand at Jadavpur in front of a large number of common people. Even the pedstrians, who tried to protest, were mercilessly beaten up. Women were nor spared either. Keshab Mukherjee, editor of 'Swadhin Bangla', had been greviously injured and is still rocvering in hospital from rib fracture, head inury and other very serious injuries. Let us all unequvocally condemn in the harshest tone such fascist assault on democratic rights with a view to throttle any voice of discontent through terrorization.
A protest meeting to voice our condemnation has been arranged at 8B bus stand at Jadavpur on 12th March 2007. Please join the meeting and invite everybody with democratic ethos to the same.
::Bhaskar Gupta
II.
From a friend:
Students opposed to the CPM/SFI/Nandigram massacre decimated the SFI in polls at the Nandigram College Students Union.They fought under a non-party banner, much like BUPC. After more than 12 years, SFI was routed! News just in. For once, SFI/CPM cannot cry that their opposing students fell to false propaganda.These students represent the truth that PD articles
try to hide by its propaganda.They are the college students of Nandigram. Yes, Nandigram, where the Congress won the assembly seat only ONCE in the last 40 years, yes people, only ONCE IN 40 YEARS.
III.
http://www.telegrap hindia.com/ 1070410/asp/ calcutta/ story_7626253. asp
Strike fizzles out on JU campus - SFI at Writers' with assault complaints, pledged drastic steps A STAFF REPORTER Jadavpur University (JU) defied the students' strike on Monday, called by the SFI to protest vandalism on the campus on the night of April 5. Elsewhere in the city, classes were disrupted on campuses where the SFI controls the students' union. SFI supporters at JU could not prevent classes from being held, despite attempts at convincing students to join the protest. The bandh-supporters even tried to form a barricade at one of the gates, but police
deployed outside the campus were quick to disperse them. Members of the SFI state committee met chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at Writers' Buildings in the afternoon and sought his intervention in restoring normalcy at JU, on the boil since We the Independents (WTI) swept the science faculty election. In their memorandum to the chief minister, the leaders alleged that two supporters were beaten up at JU and five at Jogesh Chandra College. "The chief minister promised drastic steps to restore a democratic atmosphere at JU," said Apurba Chatterjee, SFI state secretary. At Medical College and Hospital, SFI supporters tried to close a classroom but were outnumbered by students wanting to attend class. Most classes were suspended at Calcutta University. At Presidency College, 10-odd SFI supporters put up posters and shouted slogans, but classes were held as usual. Members of the JU Karmachari Sansad, observing an indefinite ceasework demanding
arrest of those who had ransacked their office on April 5, refused to unlock the classrooms. But that had little effect, as teachers opted to take classes in their offices. By 11 am, the 100-odd SFI supporters trying to enforce the bandh seemed to have lost steam, as representatives of the students' unions of all three faculties arranged for the classrooms to be opened. The Jadavpur University Teachers' Association organised a sit-in on the campus in support of two of their colleagues accused of beating up WTI members, but only 100 of the 1,000-plus teachers could be seen at the venue. The SFI supporters quit the university gates by noon, but announced in the evening that they would hold a rally on the campus on Tuesday. Students, teachers and non-teaching staff members of other institutions have been invited to the meeting. Students expressed fear that outsiders are being brought in only to assault anti-SFI
students. IV. From: "ekak matra"
The Jadavpur University Incident on 5 April You must be concerned about the entire incident that took place throughout the day of 5th April. It was the day when the results of the student union elections of FETSU and SFSU were to be declared. It must be mentioned in this regard that the AFSU results were oust just a couple o days back and the year old Forum for Arts Students won over SFI in all the 4 seats, which SFI were holding for the past decade. On the 5th, as SFSU results came out, expectedly SFI was white washed in all the 4 seats by WTI. Then as the FETSU result counting was going on, the victorious WTI, along with general students brought out a victory rally, which is a very common feature. Now as it reached ‘science club’. All SFI members, along
with a 100 of staff members of the CPM staff union, came out with banners, flags of CPM and rods, pretending to bring out a rally. It must be noted here that the rally was issueless. The presence of more than 100 plus staff members at that point f time in their union office without any prior planning is also unexplainable. And finally the presence of large number of sticks and CPM flags, planted in iron rods demonstrated their well planned intentions. It was not long before a tussle broke out, and it also be added that two teachers of Mathematics department took noticeable roles in bashing his own students. A complain has been lodged against them with the authority. Then with the intervention of some responsible student and staff members further trouble was averted. Such hostile behavior of the CPM staff union is not new. The SFI which is extremely marginalized in the entire JU campus has often depended on such unfair tricks to assert their
presence and to try and intimidate the general students. We have heard of the condemnable role of the staff union in the 1996, when at night the lights were cut off inside the Aurobindo Bhavan during a movement and the students were brutally beaten up. We still remember their hostile role in the students’ movement of 2001 and on the fasting students during the exam system movement of 2003. When everything else fails, the police tries to crack our morale, as in the 2005 movement, but only manage to crack just a few bones. Each such incident only makes the student more organized and determined. The 1996 incident brought into existence WTI, the 2005 incident led to the formation of FAS. And today we can see their mass support and acceptability. Democratic Students’ Front also consolidated its roots among the general students after an incident of massive police brutality in a movement in 1978 and has ever since been a very strong movemental organization of
Nandigram saga
Many witnesses to the Nandigram carnage were not given a fair hearing by Mr Balbir Ram, divisional commissioner, Burdwan zone, yesterday at the Talmuk headquarters, alleged anti-land-grab protesters who had formed a human shield at Bhangabhera and Gokulnagar to prevent police from going into the villages on 14 March.
Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee and Trinamul Congress leaders had earlier requested the district administration to take eyewitness’ account of the carnage at Nandigram instead of Tamluk headquarters. They had argued that it was difficult for witnesses from the strife-torn Sonachura and Gokulnagar to reach Tomluk, 60 km away from Nandigram. They also said the poor villagers who had registered as eyewitnesses to the carnage would be hard-pressed to bear the bus fare to Nandigram. But the district administration turned down the request. As a result, most of the anti-land-acquisition protesters failed to turn up at Tamluk today to narrate their account of the carnage before Mr Ram. Mr Sisir Adhikari, district secretary of Trinamul Congress and MLA, said: “The district administration did not bother to inform us of the location of taking eyewitness’ account of the Nandigram carnage. We shall do everything in our power to seek justice for the victims of the carnage.” CPI-M party workers, however, brought some witnesses, allegedly sponsored by the CPI-M, at the district headquarters under their protection. The session continued for more than six hours till evening. Mr Balbir Ram, divisional commissioner, Burdwan zone, said: “If the people of Nandigram face any kind of problem, we shall provide security to them so that they can reach Tamluk safely to give their accounts of the day before the probe team.”
The process is likely to continue for a few more days because a large number of people have registered as witnesses to the carnage that took place on 14 March at Bhangabhera and Gokulnagar.
Several lawyers of Kolkata have demanded that central security forces take charge of Nandigram village where violence over takeover of farmland for industry claimed 14 lives last month.
Members of the Calcutta High Court Bar Association and others visited Nandigram April 6 and talked to a large number of villagers.
Jayant Mitra, one of the 26 lawyers who went to the village, said the team was shocked by accounts of villagers about what happened March 14 when the police opened fire on protesting villagers.
"We want the central police force to take charge of the village and restore normalcy there," Mitra said.
The lawyers said they spoke to women who alleged torture by the police. "They are living in a state of fear," said Shaktinath Mukherjee, another lawyer.He said the villagers had lost all faith in the state police.
The government is likely to move the Supreme Court on Wednesday to vacate the stay on 27 per cent quota for OBCs in IIMs, IITs and other centrally aided institutions.The court had stayed the quota for the current academic year for want of adequate data on OBCs.
There's been uncertainty among a large number of applicants to all these institutions who are waiting for the results.The government had ordered these institutions not to declare their results till the Supreme Court took a decision on the stay.The first results slated to be declared were those of the IIMs on Thursday.
Maoists may have used sea route to land in Nandigram: Karat
Ranchi, April 10: Senior CPI-M leader Brinda Karat today claimed that Maoists may have used a sea route to reach Nandigram and create trouble there.
"The ultras might have used the sea route from somewhere in Bengal to reach Nandigram to create disturbances," polit bureau member Karat told a press conference here without giving details.
She alleged the "Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee", which was leading the protest against land acquisition there, was sheltering the Maoists who had supported it in an open letter.
"The open letter is a serious issue. But we did not hear a single statement from the Trinamool Congress about it," she said.
She alleged that Maoists hiding in Jharkhand often crossed the state border to commit crimes in West Bengal.
Concrete steps through coordinated efforts are required to end the "serious" problem in Jharkhand, she said.
"The state should have a policy on how to get over the problem and place its action plan before the Centre," she said.
On "threat" letters issued by the Maoists to politicians, Karat said it was serious and called for immediate steps to address it.
The Maoists had reportedly issued separate letters to Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister Sudhir Mahto and state Congress president Pradeep Kumar Balmachu.
While the Maoists warned Mahto for allegedly issuing statements against them, Balmachu did not reveal the content of the letter he received.
"The state government should think over how to get over the situation. Otherwise, it will affect political work," Karat said.
Singur has turned violent thanks to brutal and anti-people stance of ironic communist government of West Bengal.
Everything in the known universe tagged nandigram
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Medha Patkar writes about Singur, about the half lies and cover-up of the Left government, about CPI(M) cadre intimidating villagers, all to help develop people of Bengal.
Today when the world celebrates the 58th anniversary of the UN Charter of Human Rights as the International Human Rights Day, the people of Singur or Narmada or Raigad (Maharashtra) , Dadri-Bajada (UP) cannot. They cannot be out of struggle for survival, for dignity, for life even for a moment to be able to breathe freedom and enjoy rights not just as citizens but as human beings.
Read Full Story:
http://www.thesouthasian.org/archives/2006/singur_the_truth_about_subvers.html
More Horror Stories From Nandigram
Holocaust survivor feels ‘guilty for staying alive'
“While government institutions use the Shoah, its victims, and its survivors to promote national and financial interests, the State is appropriating funds paid to the victims and survivors for itself, and humiliating the survivors.
http://www.ynetnews .com/articles/ 0,7340,L- 3386488,00. html
Change in the Arab world
The uncommon occurrence was Abdullah's harsh criticism of his fellow Arab leaders, saying the blame for much of the Middle East's woes lies with them. Abdullah blamed Arab leaders for divisions, infighting, bloodshed and the havoc plaguing the Middle East. In the past, Arab leaders tended to place all blame for their ills on the United States and the CIA
http://washingtonti mes.com/commenta ry/20070409- 104839-1080r. htm
CPI(ML) Team In Nandigram: Summary Of Findings
(A 20-member CPI(ML) team comprising Party General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya, West Bengal State Secretary Kartick Pal, senior state leaders Dr. Partha Ghosh, Shankar Mitra, Meena Pal and Chaitali Sen, AISA leader Malay Tewari and editor of the Party's Bengali weekly organ Deshabrati Animesh Chakraborty visited the carnage-ravaged areas and people of Nandigram on 17 March. They also talked to injured victims undergoing medical treatment at the district hospital at Tamluk and the extremely under-equipped and over-crowded health centre at Nandigram. They heard reports of most horrendous killings of unarmed people, gangrapes and brutal assaults on women and children, met several people who were desperately looking for missing family members and were shocked to see very few young girls and children among the survivors in the carnage-ravaged villages of Bhangabeda, Sonachura and Gokulnagar. What follows is a brief report of the team's findings).
http://www.countercurrents.org/nandigram-cpiml230307.htm
US President George W Bush invited Democrats to the White House on Tuesday to discuss a standoff over a bill that provides for more than $100 billion to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"When it comes to funding our troops, we have no time to waste. It's time for them to get the job done."
"So I'm inviting congressional leaders from both parties, both political parties, to meet with me at the White House next week," said George W Bush, US President.
But he made it clear that he would not reconsider his opposition to withdrawing troops from Iraq.
Singur is a hot topic in NY
2007-02-19 12:41:16 Source : Moneycontrol.com
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Even as India’s burgeoning economy grabs global attention and India’s new transnationals grab foreign companies, concern still persists in the United States over the social issues that may delay or even sidetrack industrial projects, especially given the largescale protests over the Tata Motors small car project in Singur, West Bengal. And when a group of Indian MPs came to New York, they found this controversy attracting attention and worried questions.
Six Indian MPs came to New York as part of a delegation of the India-US Forum of Parliamentarians. And they were invited by the prestigious Asia Society to discuss Special Economic Zones. The focus though was on the Tatas’ controversial Singur project, and the panel spent its time debating and disagreeing over a possible solution.
http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/politics/rajyasabhamptrinamoolcongress/singurishottopi/market/stocks/article/267656
Taken from 'Peoples History of the United States' by Howard Zinn.
'History is a Weapon' website has kindly scanned the whole book. As
they say, everyone should read this book.
The nature of the settlers in the United States has not changed tot
his day, since the first euro-settlers arrived on that land.
http://www.historyi saweapon. org/zinnapeoples history.html
Thus began the history, five hundred years ago, of the European
invasion of the Indian settlements in the Americas. That beginning,
when you read Las Casas-even if his figures are exaggerations (were
the
