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A regulatory black hole- The liquid Gold

 Gargi Parsai, The Hindu Companies that use the natural resource for profit pay no charge or royalty for the raw water they use — only a nominal ‘cess’ varying from State to State (a few paise per kilolitre). There are… Continue Reading →

San Onofre is Dead and So Is Nuclear Power

by Harvey Wasserman The sun sets on San Onofre. (Photo: dolanh/cc/flickr)From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of June 7, 2013, all three are permanently shut. It’s a… Continue Reading →

America’s Secret Fukushima Poisoning the Bread Basket of the World

Wednesday, 05 June 2013  By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout | News Analysis     United Nuclear’s uranium mine and mill within the Navajo Nation in Church Rock, New Mexico. (Photo: EPA)Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, a 20-foot section of… Continue Reading →

On whistleblowers and government threats of investigation

No healthy democracy can endure when the most consequential acts of those in power remain secret and unaccountable   Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 June 2013 James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, who called the Guardian’s revelations ‘reprehensible’. Photograph:… Continue Reading →

Google chief Larry Page calls Internet spying threat to freedoms #FOE #Censorship

AFP: SAN FRANCISCO, JUN 08 2013, 10:13 IST Tags: Google Inc | Internet Spying | Larry Page | Mark Zuckerberg | Barack Obama | Government Surveillance Program | World News Google chief Larry Page branded Internet spying a threat to freedom and called for governments to be more revealing about what they try to… Continue Reading →

Mass Incarceration USA: How a Broken System Perpetuates Itself

by Robert C. Koehler “Wheel about and turn about and do just so. Every time I turn about I jump Jim Crow.”  — chorus of an 1828 minstrel song “We have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned… Continue Reading →

#India- Government eavesdropping ‘chilling’, says rights group #CMS #Monitoring

Agence France Presse | Updated: June 07, 2013 17:03 IST   New Delhi: The Indian government‘s move to implement blanket eavesdropping of online activities, telephone calls and text messages is “chilling”, Human Rights Watch said today as controversy raged in the US… Continue Reading →

Times of India #ILeadIndia #CSR #PR campaign is actually #ImisleadIndia

PICTURE COURTESY- FACEBOOK GROUP– I MISLEAD INDIA  https://www.facebook.com/IMisleadIndia  Editor Times of India Subject- I lead India Campaign Sir, Times of India  launched the ‘ I lead India ‘ campaign, with great fan fare on May 22, 2013 and which you claim… Continue Reading →

ICLR- Workers in Maruti Suzuki Manesar plant – Justice Delayed is Justice Denied #ILO

June 5,2013 Preliminary report of the findings of the INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON LABOUR RIGHTS, released on 31 May 2013, New Delhi The International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) constituted a team of lawyers and trade unionists from France, Japan, South Africa, the USA… Continue Reading →

#India – Why the #deathpenalty must end

June 5, 2013   Kanimozhi, The Hindu Lawmakers are eager to appear resolute in the fight against crime, but seem to forget that certainty of punishment, not severity, is the real deterrent “An eye for an eye makes the whole… Continue Reading →

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