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Feb 13
The Media and Mass Opinion
Ac. Krtashivananda The primary function of the media is now to sell – sell audiences to corporate advertisers. The media make no money from subscriptions, only from advertisers, whose point of view they must reflect. Advertisers will not pay for discussions that encourage people to undermine corporate power. Media support of corporate power seemingly implies …
Jan 29
Iran remains unfazed by Sanction Threat
By Ac. Krtashivananda Iran knows that it will have more leverage in the talks with the US if it has a bomb. Iran sanctions raise concern of impending humanitarian crisis. Fresh Western sanctions targeting industries in Iran have led to concern over an impending humanitarian crisis in the country. Many Iranians now find black market …
Jan 09
A Deception of development
M. Ramaswamy and Ramaswamy R. Iyer edited:Ac.Krtashivananda RALLY BY THE DAM-AFFECTED PEOPLE: In a climate where environmental and human rights issues are increasingly being sacrificed at the altar of ‘development,’ the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) has been persevering untiringly with its struggle for decades. The Second Interim Report of the Experts’ Committee …
Dec 26
The illusion of Democracy
Ac. Krtashivananda. – Liberal Journalism, And Climate Deceptions
In an era of permanent war, economic meltdown and climate ‘weirdness”, we need all the champions of truth and justice that we can find. But where are they? What happened to trade unions, the green movement, human rights groups, campaigning newspapers, peace activists, strong-minded academics, progressive voices?
Dec 10
‘Flatten all of Gaza’
Edited by: Ac: Krtashivananda In The Politics of Genocide, Edward Herman and David Peterson wrote: ‘The vulgar politicisation of the concept of genocide, and the “emerging international norm” of humanitarian intervention, appear to be products of the fading of the Cold War, which removed the standard pretexts for intervention while leaving intact the institutional and …
Nov 23
Israel and Gaza: Then and Now
by Ac.Krtashivananda Four years ago on Nov. 4, while Americans were going to the polls to elect a new president, Israeli infantry, tanks and bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip to dismantle an extensive tunnel network used by Hamas to smuggle in weapons. An already tenuous truce mediated by the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak had …
Nov 05
UPRISING IN TIBET
The high-altitude Himalayan plateau associated in popular memory with meditation and Buddhist serenity, has been the scene of periodic strife ever since it was seized militarily by China in 1951.
China’s government regards Tibet as an integral part of China and is sensitive to expressions of support from Tibet’s former ruler, the Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in 1959, after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
Oct 18
Is Wal-Mart Good for Asia?
Source: Far Eastern Economic Review Edited: Ac. Krtashivananda Wal-Mart Stores Inc., headquartered in rural Bentonville, Arkansas (population 29,000), is the world’s largest corporation, with annual revenues approaching the $350 billion range. Wal-Mart’s revenues are larger than the combined GDPs of Hong Kong and Malaysia. Wal-Mart imported about $27 billion in merchandise from China last year—about …
Oct 05
ICE MELTS INTO WATER
Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism And The Corporate Media. By David Cromwell and David Edwards. Climate scientists recently announced that Arctic sea ice had shrunk to its smallest surface area since satellite observations began in 1979. An ice-free summer in the Arctic, once projected to be more than a century away, now looks possible just …
Sep 18
THE POLARISED WORLD OF GLOBALISATION
A response to Friedman’s Flat earth hypothesis – Dr. Vandana Shiva The project of corporate Globalisation is a project for polarising and dividing people – along axis of class and economic inequality, axis of religion and culture, axis of gender, axis of geographies and regions. Never before in human history has the gap between those who …
Sep 05
A Planetary Alternative to the Global Economy
By David C. Korten, The People-Centered Development Forum The Global Capitalist Economy Inequality and injustice are not accidental outcomes of global capitalism, they are its defining characteristics. In a capitalist regime, money is embraced as the measure of all value. The maximization of returns to financial capital becomes society’s defining goal. Competition, individualism, and materialism …
Aug 13
Transformation through the people and for the people.
by Ac. Krtashivananda At the outset, the word transformation or progress needs to be defined. The development of roads, buildings and industries are not the criteria of progress. The quest for freedom in physical, intellectual and spiritual realm is the criteria of progress. This quest for freedom can be referred back to humanity’s struggle of …
