With the rate of contraction slowing down in the western world and emerging markets faring better than expected, confidence about the overall state of the global economy has risen significantly. This growing confidence has resulted in markets, especially emerging markets rallying rather quic...

Kerala is well known for its excellence in the fields of universal literacy, sex-equality, population control, etc. Above all, its natural beauty and peaceful coexistence of various religious groups is the envy of the rest of the land. That is why it is known to the world as God’s own ...

[This chapter makes the distinction between Aurobindo swaraj and Gandhi's swaraj. Along the way we mark the beginning of the de-hinduising of the INC when the Moderates import Dadabhai Naoroji as President of the INC when they realize that the Nationalists intended to present Tilak for t...

On June 30, US troops began withdrawing from Iraqi cities and towns as part of the Status of Forces Agreement that was ratified by the Iraqi Parliament last November. The agreement also stipulates that all American troops must leave the country by 2011. However, it would be naïve to ass...

Sri Lanka vs. Western Nations
The Times’ report, which came after the official visit of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to Sri Lanka, quoted two UN officials saying that Ban was aware of the death of 20,000 Tamil civilians. This report, along with a video clipp...

[This chapter presents a detailed timeline of Gandhi's political activism in South Africa and examines the build-up to being and becoming a mahatma. It demonstrates how Gandhi's political activism in South Africa was confined merely to getting the Transvaal and the Natal government...

Dubious Tamil organisations
The LTTE has many organizations in the name of Tamil, which act as fronts, indulging clandestinely in fund-raising and arms purchasing. When the FBI arrested some pro-LTTE activists in New York and New Jersey areas two years ago, the US aut...

Speaking of the situation in Iran, US President Barack Obama said June 26, “We don’t yet know how any potential dialogue will have been affected until we see what has happened inside of Iran.” On the surface that is a strange statement, since we know that with minor excepti...

[This chapter deals exhaustively with Gandhi’s satyagraha – the satyagraha in South Africa, its philosophical basis, the urgency to resuscitate Gandhian Satyagraha now, how satyagraha put Gandhi beyond the pale of all criticism, the contrast between Aurobindo’s passive ...

“LTTE Chief Prabhakaran was inspired by Bhagwat Gita; he was greatly enamoured of the principles enunciated in the Gita; his motto was ‘do your duty but do not expect any benefit from it.’ He found his ideology from the song depicting the discourse between Arjuna and Krishn...

Iran’s current political divisions can be traced back to a controversy nearly three decades ago when Iran faced war with Iraq and became entwined with US and Israeli political manoeuvers that set all three countries on a dangerous course that continues to this day. In the election disp...

President Zelaya of Honduras has just been kidnapped
[Note: As of 11:15 am, Caracas time, President Zelaya is speaking live on Telesur from San Jose, Costa Rica. He has verified soldiers entered his residence in the early morning hours, fi...

[This excerpt refers to the Hindu tradition of statecraft and makes the distinction and connection between Hindu rashtra and Hindu rajya - the Hindu nation and the Hindu state. Detailing the reasons behind the Imperial government’s creation of the INC and the Muslim League, this ch...

While contrarians are screaming “hyperinflation!”, the money supply is actually shrinking. This is because most money today comes into existence as bank loans, and lending has shrunk substantially. That means the Fed needs to “monetize” debt just to fill the breach. <...

Historically, the sense of nation and nationhood among Hindus has been cultural and civilisational. The culture and its unique value system, founded in an extraordinary concept of dharma, touched every aspect of individual and collective life. Politics, a means to protect and preserve dharma...

The Yekaterinburg Turning Point
The city of Yekaterinburg, Russia’s largest east of the Urals, may become known not only as the death place of the tsars but of American hegemony too – and not only where US U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down in 1960, but w...

Two Public Interest Litigations against the Tamil Nadu government’s Tamil New Year Ordinance were admitted on Friday 26 June 2009 by the Chennai High Court. A Division Bench comprising Justice D Murugesan and Justice K Venkataraman admitted the petitions, one filed by S Mani & 11 o...

It was on the noon of Thursday the 20th of December [18]’83 that the grandson of the Maharajah Sir Jotindra Mohun Tagore, a noble man whose name and fame is known through the length and breath of India, very courteously drove us in a cart barouche drawn by a pair of handsome chestnuts ...

This is the first of several articles on Ellen Brown’s superb 2007 book titled “Web of Debt,” now updated in a December 2008 third edition. It tells “the shocking truth about our money system, (how it) trapped us in debt, and how we can break free...