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Orissa Flood-
Could it have been averted ?
By D.N Rath
Prepared on21-9-2011
In the age of high technology , globalisation, liberisation, one still remember Utkalimani Gipabandhu Das to reach the flood affected people of Orissa. Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das was reaching the flood affected people of Orissa in 1900s when there was no communication and the Britiish Govt. was indifferent and callous.
Gopabandu Das made his life a mission to stand by the people of state who were the (…)

That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia That’s the night that they killed an innocent man. Well, don’t trust your soul to no backwoods, southern lawyer ’Cos the judge in the town’s got blood stains on his hands Vicki Lawrence, 1973
I used to think that the US was a deeply religious country; so much so that its theocratic fundamentalism distorted every aspect of its crazed political agenda. Well, that last part is still true. But no one could engage in the kind of rampage of (…)

24 September 2011 is “Moving Planet Day” in which hundreds of thousands of people around the world will be demanding effective action against man-made climate change.
A key sponsor of Moving Planet Day is 350.org which wants atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration to be no more than 350 parts per million (ppm). 300.org, which demands that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) be returned ASAP to 300 parts per million (ppm) from the current 394 ppm (increasing at 2.4 ppm per year), also (…)

One in six Americans lives below the US poverty level. Another one in six is unemployed. Meanwhile US corporations are still posting record profits, paying multimillion dollar bonuses, and providing CEOs with golden parachutes - even for blatant failure.
A recent protest, the "occupation" of Wall Street, has resulted in numerous illegal arrests (of those exercising their right of free speech and peaceful assembly) whilst occupants on Wall Street continue their thievery unabashed. What did (…)

Miraflores, September 17, 2011
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon Secretary General of the United Nations
Mr. Secretary General: Distinguished representatives of the peoples of the world:
I address these words to the United Nations General Assembly, to this great forum that represents all the people of earth, to ratify, on this day and in this setting, Venezuela’s full support of the recognition of the Palestinian State: of Palestine’s right to become a free, sovereign and independent state. (…)

After a torturous delay of more than 4 hours, the state of Georgia has just killed Troy Anthony Davis.
My heart is heavy. I am sad and angry. The state of Georgia has proven what we already know. Governments cannot be trusted with the awful power over life and death.
Today, Georgia didn’t just kill Troy Davis, they killed the faith and confidence that many Georgians, Americans and Troy Davis supporters worldwide used to have in our criminal justice (…)

USSA (United States Supreme Authority) now controls the entire Middle East. After Israel dropped a Neutron bomb on Iran, effectively wiping out the population but leaving the real estate intact (and relatively radioactive free), the US moved in to take over oil infrastructure. All of Iran’s 80 million people were wiped out "in a flash." As 150 million Americans now live in poverty it’s not uncommon to hear "the man on the street" call the Iranians, "Lucky sand jockeys."
American citizens (…)

Americans are getting poorer and the middle class is getting wiped out. That’s all you need to know about the latest Census Report which was released on Tuesday. The data merely confirm what everyone already knows, that the system only serves the interests of the rich.
Even so, the details are shocking. The income of the median household dropped 2.3 percent, (a loss of about $1,100 per year) nearly 50 million Americans have no health care, and 46.2 million people are living below the (…)

The Palestinians won’t achieve statehood, but they will consign the ’peace process’ to history.
The Palestinians won’t get a state this week. But they will prove – if they get enough votes in the General Assembly and if Mahmoud Abbas does not succumb to his characteristic grovelling in the face of US-Israeli power – that they are worthy of statehood. And they will establish for the Arabs what Israel likes to call – when it is enlarging its colonies on stolen land – "facts on the ground": (…)

“WILL THIS be the happiest day of your life?” a local interviewer asked me, referring to the approaching recognition of the State of Palestine by the UN.
I was taken by surprise. “Why would that be?” I asked.
“Well, for 62 years you have advocated the establishment of a Palestinian state next to Israel, and here it comes!”
“If I were a Palestinian, I would probably be happy,” I said, “But as an Israeli, I am rather sad.”
LET ME explain.
I came out of the 1948 war with four solid (…)