Home

India

Why the Attacks in India Should Surprise Nobody

Most Americans were shocked to learn that coordinated terrorist attacks struck the heart of Mumbai, India's commercial capital on Wednesday evening. After all, India is not Iraq or Afghanistan or even Pakistan. According to pundits such as Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, India is a shining capitalist success story and the next global superpower. In the pro-globalization narrative, India's eager-beaver working class has benefited greatly from neoliberal economic policies.

Posted in India

Indian Crisis "Tests" Obama

Pigeons fly as the Taj Hotel continues to burn in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A previously unknown group, apparently Muslim militants, took responsibility for the attacks. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh)

This transition period was supposed to be all about getting a grip on the financial crisis -- and it looked this week as if Barack Obama has succeeded sufficiently to take the Thanksgiving holiday off. But on Wednesday, the president-elect was reminded that he is inheriting messes far beyond Wall Street.

Posted in foreign policy, India

US Court Reinstates Bhopal Water Pollution Case

Indian survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy attend a protest march in New Delhi March 27, 2006. (REUTERS/B Mathur)

NEW YORK - A lawsuit contending that thousands of people in India were exposed to polluted drinking water after the 1984 Union Carbide toxic-gas disaster in Bhopal was reinstated on Monday by a U.S. appeals court, which said a lower court improperly threw out the case.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York sent the lawsuit back to a Manhattan federal court judge for further proceedings.

Posted in bhopal, Corporatism, pollution, India

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 14, 2008
3:12 PM

CONTACT: India Resource Center
R. Ajayan, Plachimada Solidarity Committee, India +91 98471 42513
Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center, US +1 415 336 7584

Compensation Claims Against Coca-Cola to Move Forward

State Government Agrees to Study Details of Compensation Against Coca-Cola

SAN FRANCISCO - October 14 - In a major development in the campaign against Coca-Cola in India, the Kerala Minister of Water Resources has agreed to set up a high- ranking committee to look into the compensation claims being made by the community who have been affected by Coca-Cola's operations in Plachimada, in the state of Kerala in India.

###
Posted in Corporatism, Environment, India, Water

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2008
1:27 PM

CONTACT: Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
Jonathan Hutson
Chief Communications Officer, PHR
jhutson [at] phrusa [dot] org
857-919-5130

Doctors, Medical Students Rally at Iranian UN Mission to Free Imprisoned Colleagues

NEW YORK - September 24 - Today at noon, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and a coalition of health and human rights groups held a silent vigil and press conference in front of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations (622 3rd Avenue, NY) to call for the release of two imprisoned Iranian Physicians. Dr. Kamiar Alaei and his brother Dr. Arash Alaei , both internationally known HIV/AIDS doctors, have been detained without charge by the Iranian government in the notorious section 209 of Iran's Evin prison since late June 2008.

###
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) mobilizes the health professions to advance the health and dignity of all people by protecting human rights. As a founding member of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
Posted in healthcare, Human Rights, India

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2008
3:18 PM

CONTACT: Council for a Livable World
Leonor Tomero 202.543.4100, ext. 2104
ltomero@clw.org

Thirty Four Independent Experts and Organizations Send Letter to Congress Opposing US India Nuclear Deal

WASHINGTON - September 17 - Thirty four independent experts and organizations sent a letter to members of Congress today asking them to resist pressure to rush toward approving the U.S.-India nuclear agreement in its current form.

The full five page letter is available online.

###
Founded by nuclear scientist Leo Szilard in 1962, Council for a Livable World provides Members of Congress with technical information and operates a Candidate Fund that helps elect candidates who support sensible national security policies. Visit the Council online at http://www.clw.org
Posted in India, North America, Nuclear Weapons

Danger in South Asia

If most Americans think Iran and Georgia are the two most volatile flashpoints in the world, one can hardly blame them. The possibility that the Bush administration might strike at Tehran's nuclear facilities has been hinted about for the past two years, and the White House's pronouncements on Russia seem like Cold War déjà vu.

Posted in War/Empire, Afghanistan, India, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Pakistan
« first‹ previous123
Syndicate content