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Why the nature of currency is vital.

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This is an old article (1999) but useful because it articulates the ways in which corporations are planning to capitalize (!) on the problems brought on by global warming and pollution.

Another unabashed example of hegemony

The city of Cleveland Ohio's school voucher system offers parents the choice of sending their children to either public or private schools. But the program was challenged because taxpayer dollars were being paid to private religious schools.

The USA is exporting and dumping its toxic waste in Third World countries, and calling it 'recycling.'

The current national emergency in India is threatening to cause loss of life in the thousands. Riots of this nature have not occured in India since the destruction of the Babri Masjid by Hindi extremists. Current reports show 300 people dead, with the number expected to rapidly rise as the police cannot control the clashing mobs.

SOME TOUGH INSIGHT INTO WHY AMERICANS ARE DISLIKED ABROAD.

THE GRISLY GODHRA (Gujarat) episode of arson on Wednesday that left 50-odd passengers of the Sabarmati Express dead — most of them Kar Sevaks returning from Ayodhya — and the backlash of mindless violence it had triggered elsewhere in the State... The HINDU editorial

ALOT OF IMPORTANT CURRENT NEWS

electronica song with reports of Afghani casualties

Global women's strike
Fri 8 March 2002.
Call for strike includes
Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu,
Farsi and Sinhala
translations. Could be big!

Any idea about what caused it?

Possible electronic surveillance threat Finnish companies are facing now and in the future.

From a nondescript lawyer to one among the hangers-on of BSP chief Kanshi Ram to a being a primary contender for the top job in Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati has come a long way.

In the name of `development', Adivasis are being pushed out from land they have lived on for generations, Kuldip Nayar writes in The HINDU

Aid workers for more than 40 agencies in west Africa have been involved in extensive sexual exploitation of refugee children, offering food rations in return for favours, a disturbing report compiled by leading aid agencies has found.

The National Workshop on Women in Journalism held in New Delhi (January 28-30, 2002) brought together more than 100 women journalists from 16 centres across the country.

The story of the February 2002 election is the remarkable performance of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh. Till the exit polls actually showed the BSP doing well, no one had foreseen this kind of impressive show, Harish Khare writes in The HINDU