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Bin Laden has declared War. USA continues the war agianst Terrorism. The Manusmiriti Order is ruled from Oval house in washington. The Bengali Brahmins try their best to colonise the divided geopolitcs and do everything to save the Brahminical hegemony in Indian Ocean Region.
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Sunita Williams today said the political boundaries that divide people exist in human brains and not on land when seen from the space. Limitations exist in mind, every aim is achieveable--that is the message American astronaut of Indian origin Sunita Williams gave children at the Mahatma Gandhi Sabarmati Ashram here today.She has made India proud by becoming the first woman to spend the longest time in space. And Gujarat is all set to welcome Sunita Williams. The astronaut arrived in Ahmedabad on Thursday on an Air-India flight, but she has not stepped out of the terminal. She was scheduled to reach at 1010 hrs (IST). Sunita has a hectic schedule ahead of her. But she has set her priorties right. The excitement there was palpable.
Left to govt: Do not succumb to US pressure.With chances of mid-term general election looming large the Left Front has decided to use the price rise as a weapon to assail the government.The government has not paused its efforts to conclude the next steps to bring the Indo-US civil nuclear deal to fruition as soon as possible.With the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) likely to meet in Vienna Thursday to discuss the India-US civil nuclear deal, the government appears ready to take forward negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) next month despite the Left's warnings not to continue with it. On the other hand,Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today announced several agitational programmes from September 25 to protest alleged police atrocity and torture on women in collusion with ruling CPI(M) supporters in West Bengal. Suffocating heat and humidity persisted in the city today while the suburbs were also not getting any respite from it. The West Bengal Congress, Committee (WBCC) today asked the ruling front whether it had informed the Centre that the setting up of a chemical hub at Nandigram had been cancelled. Meanwhile, Amid noisy scenes over ISRO land deal, the Kerala Assembly was adjourned sine-die today after Speaker K Radhakrishnan rushed through the scheduled business. Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan today alleged that the Congress-led Opposition had launched the agitations, over the ISRO land deal, foreseeing an immediate mid-term poll in the changing political scenario.
West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has struck yet another divergent note from his party, CPM — he has clarified in an interview to a Kolkata daily. the most circulated one, an ABP publication Anand Bazar Patrika, he doesn't believe in "blind anti-Americanism". He added: "With time, we change our thinking. And when change is good for the people, why shouldn't we, too, change?" Mind you, ABP group is trying its best to divide the CPIM on Nuclear Deal presenting Buddha, an icon devoted to save the interests of West Bengal and painting Prakash Karat and his wife Brinda Karat as Conservative anti Bengali leaders who denied first Jyoti Basu the Prime minister and then Somnath Chatterjee, the President of India. ABP with all its media hands electronic as well as Print justify Buddha`s proUS stance in the best interest of the state. This group provides no space for subaltern or triabal or Dalit or Muslim causes. It launches Pranab Mukherjee as a Prime mininister prospect and hails the intimacy between Buddha and Manmohan. While it despises Marxism as an ideology and marxists as politicians with the Indian Left as much as the Hell!
Bhattacharjee's non-offensive comments on the US comes soon after his endorsement of nuclear power and in the backdrop of CPM's fierce opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal as well as the very need for nuclear power. Given this context, the statements are being viewed as significant by Left analysts who are reading a divergence between the CPM leadership in Delhi and that in Kolkata. Buddha's statement came soon after he disclosed that state industry minister Nirupam Sen is going to the US to lobby for American investments in West Bengal. In fact, Sen's visit may be followed up by a visit to America by the CM himself. Although this does not constitute a direct contradiction of the Delhi leadership's position, it does show a much more accommodating view of the US and Amercian interests. He has also indicated quite clearly that the economic development of West Bengal was dearer to him that ideological point-scoring on "US imperialism".
"We are hopeful of concluding negotiations with the IAEA next month," a reliable source privy to those involved in nuclear negotiations told IANS.
There are political considerations. But we will go ahead," the source added on a day the government and the Left parties held their second meeting to address issues relating to the implications of the 123 bilateral civil nuclear agreement on India's foreign policy and its energy programme.
The external affairs ministry chose not to comment on the status of India's negotiations with the IAEA. "I have nothing to say on that," spokesperson Navtej Sarna said.
K. Subrahmanyam, who heads a task force appointed by the government to review India's nuclear policy, said: "India has only one step to take, that is, to complete its negotiations with the IAEA. This will be done next month. We have time on hand to complete the deal.
"The US has called a meeting of the NSG on the sidelines of IAEA in Vienna on Friday. They will hold preliminary discussions on the nuclear deal. It's for the US to persuade the NSG for rules change in favour of India," he said.
Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar is in Vienna to attend a meeting of the IAEA, of which India is a member. He has tactfully kept quiet on when New Delhi will begin negotiations with the UN nuclear watchdog to place its civilian nuclear reactors under India-specific safeguards.
Torrential rains and thunderstorms have killed at least 63 people in southern India, and flooded dozens of villages. Worst hit was the state of Andhra Pradesh where 48 people died over the last four days.
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Terrorists prefer the sea route into India
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The tried and tested routes for infiltration are now no longer viable. Increased vigil by security forces is now resulting in heavy losses for terrorist organisations. This is now forcing terror outfits like the Lashkar-e-Toiba to explore new routes — the most preferred being the sea route. Intelligence agencies are also waking up to the sea route, all the way from Pakistan to Sri Lanka to the beaches of Chennai
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America shows its might
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George W. Bush may consider themselves nuclear buddies, but their enthusiasm about the 123 Agreement does not extend to Indian nuclear scientists. ... | Read..
Small steps to N-finish line
India and the US are taking small, determined steps — in Delhi, Vienna and in the US next week — that seem to be taking the nuclear deal to its logical conclusion. ... | Read..
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Bin Laden declares 'war' on Pakistan in new tape. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has vowed to retaliate against "infidel" Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for the killing of a rebel cleric and a raid on his mosque in July, U.S. Web sites said on Thursday.Al Qaeda urged Sudanese Muslims on Thursday to fight African Union and United Nations peacekeeping troops in Darfur as rebels cast doubt on whether peace talks to pave the way for the force could succeed.
Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri called for a holy war on the troops that he said were invading Darfur, and criticized Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for accepting the 26,000-strong joint A.U.-U.N. operation.Presidential poll in Pakistan is set to hold on October 6. This is expected to see the re-election of Gen. The Election Commission today announced the schedule for the polls. Opposition parties are threatening to boycott the vote to deny it legitimacy.
Cartoonist Arif sent to jail
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Arifur Rahman, cartoonist of daily Prothom Alo, was today sent to the Dhaka Central Jail on charge of sacrilege when produced before the CMM court, reports UNB. • FULL STORY
US Deputy Assistant Secretary Gastright iterates US support to reform activities of govt
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed Wednesday said the main goal of the caretaker government (CG) is to hand over power to an elected government through holding a fair and acceptable general election within or ahead of the set deadline, reports UNB. • FULL STORY
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After UP, MP and Jharkhand, protesting traders forced Reliance and Subhiksha stores in some parts of Delhi to close down. “This government won’t take notice of our strike unless we burn down few of these retail stores,” said one of the traders. Small traders across India are protesting and their ire is directed against big organised retail players like Reliance and Subhiksha. Traders have also managed to mobilise political support for their cause
The Congress today gave it in writing to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee that it had no objection to Nayachar if geology and environment experts gave the go-ahead to the chemical hub.After a party meeting today, state Congress working president Pradip Bhattacharya said: “We are of the opinion that the interests of farmers need to be protected when land is acquired for a project. From that point of view, Nayachar is a suitable place if Geological Survey and environment experts give the green signal.”The island off Haldia belongs to the government and there is no question of having to acquire land for the project.The Congress had attended the September 3 all-party meeting to discuss the hub and promised to let the government know its stand soon.
Meanwhile, The warning of a March 14-like resistance to police was rung in Nandigram after 200 jawans staged a flag march this afternoon. The exchange of fire and bombs between Bhoomi Uchchhed Pratirodh Committee and CPM supporters yesterday and inputs that Maoists have sneaked into the area apparently prompted the march along an 18-km stretch from Reyapara to Tekhali.East Midnapore police chief G.A. Srinivas declined comment on the Maoists. “We decided on the vigil to ensure peace.”As 26 vehicles with armed personnel snaked through, the committee leaders went into a huddle. Trinamul Congress MLA Subhendu Adhikary attended the meeting.
President George W. Bush's administration Wednesday thwarted the latest bid by Democrats to derail its Iraq strategy, as the Senate blocked a bid to limit the numbers of troops ready for deployment.The bill's 56-vote tally was exactly the same as the number a similar version garnered in June, when it last came up for the vote, showing little progress by Democrats in thwarting Bush's war strategy.After wavering Republican Senators came under fierce political pressure, the bill garnered 56 votes in the 100-member chamber, but in a stinging defeat for Democrats, fell four votes short of the required 60-vote supermajority.The measure, framed by Democratic Senator James Webb, and co-sponsored by Republican war critic Senator Chuck Hagel, would have mandated rest periods for troops equal to the length of time they spent on combat tours.Its failure was the latest bitter disappointment for Democrats who grabbed control of Congress last year, but have repeatedly failed to change the course of US strategy in the unpopular war.But critics branded the bill a "back-door" attempt to enforce a drawdown of US troops from Iraq. Supporters did not dispute the fact it would limit troop levels, but said it was vital to ease the strain on the US military.Though Secretary of Defense Robert Gates had warned he would ask Bush to veto the measure had it passed, the bill was seen as the Democrats best shot this year of challenging Bush's control of the war.Republicans celebrated the defeat of the bill, which they said would have amounted to a legislated surrender in Iraq, a week after Bush declared his troop surge strategy a success.Senator and 2008 presidential candidate John McCain branded the bill "dangerous," adding it would have "the effect of changing policy on the war."
Faced with apparently solid Republican backing for Bush on the war in the Senate, Democrats are now expected to make several symbolic -- but almost certain to fail -- attempts to establish troop withdrawal timetables.By the Democratic script, September was supposed to have been the month, when constant pressure on wavering Republican senators broke the back of Bush's support for the war in Congress.But a public relations campaign by the White House, and testimony by war commander General David Petraeus and US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker now seems to have been decisive.
Hagel had argued in a day of impassioned debate that US troops were being stretched beyond endurance, and facing rising rates of stress, divorce and personal hardship by repeated combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We cannot continue to look at war and the people who fight and die in wars as abstractions, as pawns, as objects," said Hagel.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday to hold serious talks on creating a Palestinian state, insisting a looming peace summit be substantive.
US President George W. Bush announced Thursday that his agriculture secretary had resigned, and urged him to defend a vulnerable Senate seat held by his Republican party come the 2008 elections.Bush endorsed outgoing secretary Mike Johanns to replace Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a sometimes critic of the White House on issues like Iraq, who has announced he will step down.
President George W. Bush said Thursday he was "optimistic" about the prospects for the US economy, despite acknowledging it "unsettling" times in the housing market.
"I'm optimistic about our economy," Bush said when asked in a White House news conference about predictions from some analysts for a recession.But he added: "there is no question" that Americans were experiencing "unsettling times in the housing market."
US President George W. Bush said Thursday the United States favored using diplomatic means to resolve the crisis over Iran's nuclear program, amid speculation of possible military action.
"I have consistently stated that I am hopeful that we can convince the Iranian regime to give up any ambitions it has in developing a weapons program, and do so peacefully," Bush told reporters. "That ought to be the objective of any diplomacy."He was responding to a question about comments by France foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, who caused a diplomatic storm by warning this week of the possibility of a war with Iran over the nuclear dispute.
Iran is enriching uranium that world powers are concerned could be used to make a nuclear warhead. It insists the activity is aimed only at producing power for civilian purposes.
The UN Security Council has already adopted three resolutions against Iran, two of them including sanctions for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment. The United States is to host several key powers in Washington on Friday to discuss possible new sanctions.
"We are working with allies and friends to send a consistent message to the Iranians that there is a better way forward for them than isolation," Bush said Thursday.
"We'll keep the pressure on them, and the objective of course, is to solve this peacefully," he said.
New Delhi: Left parties on Thursday asked the government to consider the "grave consequences" of US "pressures" to change India's policy direction on various fronts before operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal.
"These instances of reconfirmation of the concerns expressed by us on the grave consequences to India's sovereignty by this deal must be considered in right earnest by the UPA government before it proceeds to operationalise it," CPM Politburo member Sitaram Yechury said.
Quoting the statements of US ambassador David Mulford and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher about rushing up the operationalisation of the 123 Agreement, both Yechury and the CPI asked the government not to succumb to American "pressures" and put the deal on hold.
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Observing that Boucher wanted India not to overlook the political timetable and asked the government to come clean on Iran, Yechury said this was precisely what the Left had been saying all along.
"It is such arm twisting of India to change the direction of its policy that will increase as the nuclear deal anchored within the Hyde Act gets implemented," the CPM leader said in an editorial in the forthcoming issue of People's Democracy.
"Such pressures will not be confined to foreign policy positions alone. It will extend to vital areas such as defence cooperation, security and intelligence collaboration etc.," Yechury said.
In a statement, the CPI Central Secretariat said: "Those in India who defend 123 Agreement should now understand the impact of Hyde Act and US efforts to drag India into its global strategy."
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MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - JP Morgan said it viewed India as 'underweight' citing rising political instability, relatively inflexible monetary policy and unrealistic corporate earnings expectations.
Adrian Mowat, chief Asian & emerging markets strategist at JP Morgan said the standoff between the Congress-led government and its Left party allies over the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal could lead to to mid-term elections as early as end 2007.
This political uncertainty could also negatively impact equities and the Indian rupee, Mowat said.
On the Indian economy, Mowat said India's monetary policy was less attractive than the other emerging markets. "Notwithstanding a persistent decline in the country's whole price index, the central bank still looks concerned about inflation," he said.
The prevailing higher rates have already started adversely impacting India's industrial output. Industrial data from the statistics bureau showed that July industrial production growth -- at 7.1 pct -- grew by its slowest pace in nine months.
JP Morgan said the country's overall economic growth could be impacted if the Reserve Bank of India continues its a hawkish stance on interest rates.
But said with sufficient infrastructure and focus India's growth can outpace that of China.
JP Morgan also considers the projected corporate earnings of Indian companies as inflated and unrealistic. Mowat said currency gains, owing to the rupee's record rise this year, formed an important portion of the earnings reported by the Indian corporates in the last quarter. So, if the rupee depreciates following a weakness in the global economy, the corporate earnings will also take a hit. "The market has still not in factored in this element. The earnings expectations need to be brought down to realistic levels," Mowat cautioned.
Though the Indian equities have managed to recover the losses they suffered from of US sub-prime mortgage crisis, JP Morgan sees the stock markets declining over the next two months. But it does not forecast a steep fall.
JP Morgan was bullish on the country's engineering & construction sector. "Though the valuations of some the companies in the sector are steep, it continues to be a long-term story," Mowat said.
He added the companies in the sector have got a strong order book, due to developed and developing economies' excessive focus on building infrastructure.
Mowat also sounded positive about the steel companies and said he foresaw the demand for steel to rising further, given the global spending on building physical infrastructure.
However, he did not have an encouraging forecast for the Indian software companies, which were already feeling the pinch of a strong rupee, owing to their exposure to the US economy.
"Since Indian IT companies have a great exposure to the US markets, any recession in the US economy will negatively impact the demand for these companies," Mowat said.
He also sounded caution on the Indian auto sector citing the prevailing higher interest rates.
Bin Laden urges Pakistanis to revolt
Cairo: Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden called on Pakistanis to rebel against President Pervez Musharraf in a new recording released on Thursday, saying his military's siege of a militant mosque stronghold makes him an infidel.
The storming of the Red Mosque in Islamabad in July "demonstrated Musharraf's insistence on continuing his loyalty, submissiveness and aid to America against the Muslims ... and makes armed rebellion against him and removing him obligatory," bin Laden said in the message.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has vowed to retaliate against "infidel" Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for the killing of a rebel cleric and a raid on his mosque in July, U.S. Web sites said on Thursday.
Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims to fight the United States and its allies around the world and praised the operations of Islamist militants in a new video released on Thursday.Separately, an Islamist Web site said it would carry a new video from al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in which he declares war on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan's army. It gave no details and the footage was not available immediately on the site that carried the news.In a video made to mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Zawahri said: "Stand, o nation of Islam under the victorious banner of the Prophet ... and campaign against the crusader banner of (U.S. President George W.) Bush.
"Go forth ... to the mujahideen, bear them arms, back them, defend them and don't be intimidated by the power of America for these two blessed attacks have revealed that it is a power of iron and fire, with no faith or morals or principle."
Zawahri, who praised the actions of al Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Afghanistan, north Africa, Somalia, Chechnya and Iraq, called on Pakistanis to avenge the killing of a rebel cleric sympathetic to Afghanistan's Taliban in July.
"Let the Pakistani army know that the killing of Abdul Rashid Ghazi and his students and the demolition of his mosque and two madrasas have soaked the history of the Pakistani army in shame ... which can only be washed away by retaliation against the killers of Abdul Rashid Ghazi and his students."
"We in al Qaeda organisation call on God to witness that we will retaliate for the blood of ... Abdul Rashid Ghazi and those with him against Musharraf and those who help him, and for all the pure and innocent blood," lauramansfield.com, which monitors Islamist Web sites, quoted bin Laden as saying in English excerpts of his comments.
"So Pervez, his ministers, his soldiers and those who help him are all accomplices in spilling the blood of those of the Muslims who have been killed. He who helps him knowingly and willingly is an infidel like him," bin Laden was quoted as saying on another U.S. monitoring Web site, siteinstitute.org.
Neither site posted a full transcript of his comments. Al Qaeda-linked Web sites had earlier announced the Saudi-born militant would declare war on Musharraf and the Pakistani army.
More than 100 of Ghazi's followers were killed in an assault on the Lal Masjid, a mosque and school complex. The group is sympathetic to the Taliban, who were removed from power in Afghanistan by U.S.-led forces.
Earlier on Thursday, al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims to fight the United States and its allies around the world, and praised the operations of Islamist militants in a new video.In the video made to mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Zawahri said: "Stand, o nation of Islam, under the victorious banner of the Prophet ... and campaign against the crusader banner of (U.S. President George W.) Bush.Zawahri, who praised the actions of al Qaeda-linked groups fighting in Afghanistan, north Africa, Somalia, Chechnya and Iraq, also called on Pakistanis to avenge the killing of Ghazi.
THIRD TAPE
Zawahri also called on Muslims in Sudan to fight a force of African Union and U.N. peacekeepers set to deploy to the volatile Western region of Darfur. He said Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir had abandoned his Muslim brothers and no longer deserved their protection.Bin Laden and Zawahri are believed to be hiding in the border area of Afghanistan and Pakistan, a mountainous, inaccessible region that U.S. intelligence has described as a safe haven for al Qaeda and their Taliban allies.The latest audiotape was the third posting featuring a new message from bin Laden to appear this month. The messages, issued by al Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab, were timed to mark the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington in which almost 3,000 people were killed.
Bin Laden appeared in a video on September 7 in which he said the United States was vulnerable despite its power and said only conversion to Islam would end the conflict.In an audio tape issued on September 11, bin Laden praised what he called the "19 champions" who carried out the attacks and eulogised one hijacker, who presented his last testament.
The latest Zawahri tape is an 80-minute compilation including old audio clips from bin Laden, comments by Qaeda fighters and clips of Western analysts and officials. Zawahri gives what appears to be a new commentary, explaining how the United States was being defeated by Muslims around the world.
"What they claim is the strongest power in the history of mankind is today being defeated in front of the Muslim vanguard of jihad six years after New York and Washington," said Zawahri, who was wearing a white turban and speaking in front of a packed bookcase. An assault rifle leant against it.
"The coalition of the crusaders has begun to fight the fight of the desperate ... by increasing its bombing of civilians to discourage them from supporting the Taliban..."
The video begins with footage of a cockpit and what analysts said was old audio tape of Mohammed Atta, a leader of the September 11 hijackers, talking to passengers aboard the doomed plane.
"So when the capability is there, it is obligatory to rebel against the apostate ruler, as is the case now," he said, according to a transcript released by Laura Mansfield, a US terrorism expert who monitors militant message traffic.
Bin Laden's voice was heard over a video showing previously released footage of the terror leader. It was posted on Thursday on Islamic militant websites.
Maj Gen Waheed Arshad, a Pakistani army spokesman, said the army would continue its fight against terrorism, regardless of any threats it faces.
"We have the aim and objective, as our national duty, to eliminate terrorists and eradicate extremism. The Pakistan army will continue to carry out its role against terrorists wherever they are found, whether in the tribal areas (of northwest Pakistan) or elsewhere."
"Such threats issued through videos or in any other way cannot deter us from fulfilling our national duty," he said.
Myanmar monks escalate pressure on junta
More than 1,300 Buddhist monks marched in Yangon on Thursday, their largest demonstration in Myanmar's main city against the junta since they launched a protest movement in force earlier this week.Witnesses said several thousand onlookers watched the monks marching in the rain and praying in three separate rallies, in what a Western diplomat said marked an escalation of pressure on the military regime.Thursday marked the fourth consecutive day of protests by monks in Myanmar and, for the first time, onlookers outnumbered the clergy.
Global hegemony and Bangladesh
Tuesday September 18 2007 11:25:24 AM BDT
By Prof Anu Muhammad , Bangladesh
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'Would you please tell me, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to?'
Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland
WE are living in a world that has entered into a reproductive system of war, militarisation, destruction and dehumanisation. For different reasons, the United States has emerged as the centre of this global system. The survival of the US as a superpower, expansion of its imperial hegemony and the function of crisis-ridden global capitalism now depend highly on its war machine and militarism on the one hand and speculative activities on the other. All sorts of criminal activities go with that.
David Korten, a former senior advisor to USAID, described only part of the scenario when he said: 'The world is now ruled by a global financial casino staffed by faceless bankers and hedge-fund speculators who operate with a hard mentality in the shadowy world of global finance. Each day, they move more than 2 trillion dollars around the world in search of quick profits and safe harems, sending exchange rates and stock market into will gyratium wholly.'
We are living in a world where $9 billion is adequate to ensure safe water for everybody in the world but where millions die every year because of unclean water. The same world spends more than $900 billion on war and armaments every year, i.e. hundred times the money required to create a safe world; share of the US in these destructive expenditure is more than 60 per cent.
Therefore, we have a world, we have a 'knowledge-based society', we have a 'free democratic' civilisation where regimes like the Bush administration can spend unlimited resources for destruction, genocide, occupation and create a real hell on earth.
To make the point clear, this is not the Bush administration per se but the global system we live in that creates and recreates faceless heartless robotic efficient inhumans in civil military administrations, parliaments, business, think-tanks, banks, religious guilds and all centres of power. We are living in a world where the global system everyday brings more destruction for its own survival and consequently invites destruction of the whole civilisation.
We are now living in a world where we find growing resources but increasing deprivation, expanding communication but intensifying conflicts, generating knowledge but monopolising power, growing potential but deepening discrimination. Globally we have autocracy and militocracy in the name of democracy where peace means war, love means hate, freedom means occupation, security means genocide. The United States, the centre of global power, is crying for its own security and to ensure that, or as an excuse, is creating insecurity all over the world as well as for its own people. Its cry for security is actually madness for profit and domination for few.
Blood for oil and gas
Millions of people have been raising slogans against war since 1991, and called for 'no blood for oil', still oil and natural resources have become the focal point of military actions led by the US. Communal, racial hatred and urge for global hegemony go with that.
Kretzmann (2003) correctly observes that 'there is a striking correlation betw
