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[1] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Sun Jul 23, 2006 Subject: Indo-US Nuke 'Deal': Another Informed View [In so far as the "opening up of the Indian economy to imperialist capital" is concerned, things are, apparently, a bit more complex. It's an undeniable fact that the WTO is trying hard for quite some time to prize open the 'financial sector', in particular, not with resounding success though. But at the same time, the GoI itself is proactively seeking 'foreign capital', as is Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of West Bengal, and doing whatever it can to ensure that foreign investments flow into India in preference over other alternative destinations e. g. China and other East Asian countries. It is of course quite another matter that even today Western capital is overwhelmingly invested in the West itself. The rationale is rather simple, or simplistic. If you have to raise the rate of GDP growth, you're to raise the rate of investments. And if mobilisation of indigenous resources - or investible surplus, on that scale, is facing both physical and also political constraints then you've to go in for foreign investments. And if they're not too keen to flood your economy - as is indeed the case quite contrary to the clich?d Leftist outcries, then you're to offer them all sorts of sops regardless of direct and collateral costs. That of course is too shortsighted and outright dangerous! In this context, India and much of Latin America offer two contrasting examples. The Latin America, reeling under super-exploitative domination by the US capital and trade for far too long is reacting pretty strongly today. India, on the other, is busy battering down the rather formidable economic firewalls that it had built around itself since Independence. The lure of Singapore or China for that matter is too irresistible. So two important conclusions flow inevitably. Even the Latin American countries had the inherent/dormant capacity to stand up to the US hegemony. This of course called for massive street mobilisations - but far short of armed insurrections or protracted struggles by guerrilla focos and outright ‘smashing’ of the state structures. Hence ‘colonialism’ and ‘neo-colonialism’ are two distinctly different categories. And the latter label is for that reason somewhat misleading. And India cannot face the danger of “recolonisation” without having been “decolonised” in the first place. Evidently a dead person cannot die! So it’s high time we get rid of the huge ideological garbage that we had inherited from our glorious past!] http://www.countercurrents.org/sharma150706.htm Nuclear Cement For US Imperialism's "Strategic Partnership" With India: A Case Of A Carrot And A Rod By Hari P. Sharma 15 July, 2006 Countercurrents.org ------------------ [2] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Sun Jul 23, 2006 Subject: Nuke Power and Market http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/07/23/do2305.xml &sSheet=/opinion/2006/07/23/ixopinion.html I believe in the market - that's why I say the Government is wrong to back nuclear power By Ken Livingstone (Filed: 23/07/2006) ------------- [3] From: rkurian@bgl.vsnl.net.in Date: Sun Jul 23, 2006 Subject: From the New York Times.. July 23, 2006 Op-Ed Columnist Spanish Lessons for Israel By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF In 1982, many friends of Israel vigorously supported its invasion of Lebanon, arguing that it was only assuring its own security. In retrospect, though, that assault undermined the long-term security of Israel. The invasion spawned Hezbollah, whose perceived success in driving Israel out of Lebanon encouraged Hamas and other Palestinian groups to adopt more violent tactics. Today again, Israel believes that it is improving its long-term security by attacking Lebanon. And once again, I believe, that will prove counterproductive. Israel is likely to kill enough Lebanese to outrage the world, increase anti-Israeli and anti-American attitudes, nurture a new generation of anti-Israeli guerrillas, and help hard-liners throughout the region and beyond. (Sudan’s cynical rulers, for example, will manipulate Arab outrage to gain cover to continue their genocide in Darfur.) But Israel is unlikely to kill more terrorists than it creates. More broadly, one reason this bombardment — like the invasion in 1982 — is against Israel’s own long-term interest has to do with the way terrorism is likely to change over the next couple of decades. In the past, terror attacks spilled blood and spread fear, but they did not challenge the survival of Israel itself. At some point, though, militant groups will recruit teams of scientists and give them a couple of years and a $300,000 research budget, and the result will be attacks with nerve gas, anthrax, or “dirty bombs” that render areas uninhabitable for years. All this suggests that the only way for Israel to achieve security is to reach a final peace agreement, involving the establishment of a Palestinian state (because states can be deterred more easily than independent groups like Hamas). Such an agreement is not feasible now, but it might be five or 15 years from now. Israel’s self-interest lies in doing everything it can to make such a deal more likely — not in using force in ways that strengthen militants and make an agreement less likely. It’s certainly true that if America were raided by a terror group next door, we would respond just as Israel has. When Pancho Villa attacked a New Mexico town in 1916, we sent troops into Mexico. But that expedition was a failure (just as our invasion of Iraq has been, at least so far). On the other hand, there are two democracies that endured constant and brutal terrorism and eventually defeated it. Neither Spain nor Britain was in a situation quite like Israel’s (Palestinian terrorists have been more brutal in attacking civilians), but they still offer useful lessons. And both the Northern Ireland and Basque problems were often considered insoluble a couple of decades ago, perhaps even more than those in the Middle East today. Spain could have responded to terror attacks by sending troops into the Basque country, or by bombing the sanctuaries that ETA guerrillas used just across the border in France. (France was blas? about being used as a terrorist base.) Instead, Spain gave autonomy to the Basque country and restrained itself through gritted teeth, over the objections of those who thought this was appeasement. Likewise, Britain endured constant bombings by the I.R.A., which enjoyed support in both Ireland and the U.S. and obtained weapons and Semtex plastic explosive from Libya. Yet Margaret Thatcher didn’t bomb Dublin (or Boston), nor even the offices of the I.R.A.’s political wing in Northern Ireland. When she saw that Britain’s harsh tactics were strengthening support for the I.R.A., the Iron Lady moderated her approach and negotiated the landmark Anglo-Irish agreement of 1985. At the time, that agreement was widely denounced as rewarding terrorists and showing weakness. Frankly, neither British nor Spanish restraint was a huge or immediate success. Spain had hoped that democracy would end Basque terrorism; instead, it increased. And Mrs. Thatcher acknowledges in her memoirs that her results were “disappointing.” Yet in retrospect, the softer approach gave London and Madrid the moral high ground and slowly — far too slowly — isolated terrorists and made a negotiated outcome more feasible. That’s why Britain and Spain are today peaceful, against all odds. That admirable restraint should be the model for Israel, with the aim of making a comprehensive peace agreement more likely — in 2010 or 2020 if not in 2007. The record of Spain and Britain suggests that restraint and conciliation can seem maddeningly ineffective — but they are still the last, best hope for peace. -------------------- [4] From: "Joy. D" <djoyonline@yahoo.com> Date: Mon Jun 19, 2006 Subject: Freedom of Tibet - Do you care? "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Martin Luther King Jr. "The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing." John Adams "I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual." Ronald Reagan Many people in the world do not know that Tibet was once an independent country but is now under Chinese occupation. The people of Tibet are living under oppression of the Chinese authorities for more than 60 years and the world has not heeded Tibetan’s cry or supported its struggle for independence whole heartedly. This is the time we all can express our sympathy and support to the people of Tibet as individuals and declare our moral support to them. This is what we can do According to Tibet’s Government in Exile website over 1.2 million Tibetans have died as a direct result of the Chinese invasion and occupation of Tibet. Today, it is hard to come across a Tibetan family that has not had at least one member imprisoned or killed by the Chinese regime. Under Chinese invasion the whole of Tibet has been turned into a vast network of prisons and labor camps. There are reports that China even resorted to massacre of prisoners to keep the prison population within manageable limits. Big corporations like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft bowed to the pressures of Chinese government and censor search results so that information like Tiananmen Square massacre will not be accessible to the people of China. They block out information about Democracy and human rights. Tibetans don’t want to live under Chinese dictatorial communist government. They want freedom, they want Democracy. Please join us to blog about Tibet on July 6th “World Tibet Day” which is the birthday of the Dalai Lama. We urge the blogging world to declare it as “Bloggers for Tibet Day”. Please spread the word and blog about Tibet on July 6th. Let us create a momentum for freedom of Tibet as never before. If you don’t have a blog please visit us to know more about the struggles of Tibetans and see if you can help in any other ways. We have set up a blog at http://voiceofambition.com/Tibet to track all the information and provide one stop for all blogging activity about Tibet. We also want to provide authentic information about various Tibet organizations. Please join us. If you can help us maintain the blog please contact us at blog. friendsoftibet[AT]gmail. com . You can write articles to be published at this blog. If you don’t have time you can send us links to good articles about Tibet and provide us any information that can further the cause of freedom of Tibet. Thank You and Regards, Voice Of Ambition Team http://voiceofambition.com ------------------ [2] The Times of India Online Printed from timesofindia.indiatimes.com > India --------------------------------- Centre plans to include unani, homeopathy in health mission [ Sunday, June 11, 2006 11:19:20 pmTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] RSS Feeds| SMS NEWS to 8888 for latest updates NEW DELHI: Hakims and Acharyas may rub shoulders with MBBS doctors to treat India's poor. The Centre is planning to integrate homeopathy, Unani and Siddha with mainstream medicine into the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) as part of its 11th five-year plan (2007-2012). According to a Planning Commission report, this integration will help solve the acute shortage of trained personnel being faced by India's health care system. At present, NRHM has provision for just two physicians from the Indian systems of medicine (ISM). The commission says that nearly 30% posts of doctors remain vacant while random checks by health ministry officials found nearly 67% doctors absent from work. At present, India has 1.48 lakh health sub-centres, 24,000 primary health centres and 3,500 functioning community health centres on the allopathic side with 23,000 ISM dispensaries and 3,100 ISM hospitals. While 59,000 beds across rural India serve modern medicine systems, over 53,000 beds serve ISM. Syeda Hameed, member (health), Planning Commission, says: "Involvement of Unani and other ISMs in the rural health scheme is under consideration for the 11th plan. The problem of unavailability of doctors can be redressed if we mobilise doctors who are trained under ISM. Currently, there is no sustained dialogue between the two systems of medicine. The 11th plan would have more schemes for the development of Unani and other ISMs." India at present has close to half a million institutionally qualified ISM practitioners not included in the public sector supported health care system. Only 40,000 of them are employed by the government. "The trained ISM practitioners represent a valuable human resource at village and block levels. This could be leveraged and coopted into providing primary care. Kerala has fully combined modern medicine and ISM with outstanding outcomes," the Planning Commission reports. |
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