Defence spending causes poverty in India

cartoon courtesy : www.tayzathuria.org.uk
According to the Global Peace Index, some $2.4 trillion (£1.5tr), or 4.4%, of the global economy “is dependent on violence”.  The world spends  around $1,000 billion annually on the military. In 2008, world military expenditure reached 1.46 trillion dollars, representing 2.4 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP).  At least two [...]

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Profiteers of Indian Blasts

With the emergence of Hindutva fascist forces at the centre and their global alliance with neo cons and zionists, our poor nation witnessed sharp increase in the number of conflicts. The profiteers of global arms and security equipment trade established plenty of propogonda machines in India, which sweet named as conflict research institutes. In fact, India’s terror mafia is a complex structure which work beyond party politics. It includes right wing media houses, well paid think tanks, corrupt politicians, industrial bigwigs, high profile security officials, intelligence wing officers, and hindutva lobbying groups. Anytime, they can manipulate explosions in areas of tribals, dalits or minorities. The real culprits will be rescued from punishment as the investigation is more focused on news value of the ‘Terror’. Every terror attempts help the security and arms trade industry than its victims. It ends up in more arms trade and creation of draconian laws. The creation of ‘National Security Advisor of India’ was a pre planned strategy by global arms industry. By creating such a portfolio, Hindutva zealots hacked democratic controle over Indias national security. The ministers became remotely controlled robots in the hands of corrupt security apparatus. According to Hindutva, security of borders is more important than its citizens. Incidentally India has bought military hardware and software from Israel worth over $7 billion since the 1991 Kargil conflict. The Defence Offset Facilitation Agency estimating the expenditure on the sector at USD 100 billion for next five years. Sooner or later, 25,000 strong democratic institutions in India will be collapsed and the country will be transformed to a limited democracy under the rule of corrupted security regime like Turkey or Israel.

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You don’t have a promise to Keep

Despite UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report 2007 which lauded India’s effort to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it said that the country may fall short because of enormity of the out of schoolchildren.
About half (28 million) of the world’s out of schoolchildren are in four countries including India and Pakistan. And, 30 per cent of those [...]

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14 Dicks and 1 Pussy

17-year-old alleges rape by 14 cops
Pune, September 06,  2008:
Men in uniform came in groups of four, raped me till morning, says her complaint; crime branch to probe
A 17-year-old girl from Hyderabad, who was rescued from a brothel in Budhwar Peth in 2006 has alleged that as many as 14 city police personnel had raped her [...]

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The lost Paradise

With the prime minister determined to maintain his vow of silence, with the home ministry determined to negotiate with criminals in Jammu, while it shoots their victims in Kashmir, only the absurdly optimistic can believe that the Kashmir movement will fizzle out when the curfew is lifted. By Prem Shankar Jha

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