As key representatives of the three chief villains of international finance and trade, the IMF, World Bank (WB) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) met on the lush resort island of Bali, Indonesia, they warned the world of dire consequences…
Half of All Workers in Asia-Pacific will be Engaged in ‘Vulnerable’ Jobs by 2020: ILO Report
One-fourth of all workers in the region live in moderate or extreme poverty, more than two in three workers are informally employed, says new report. NEARLY half of all workers — 49 per cent — in the Asia-Pacific region will…
Ten years ago, there was panic in Washington, DC, New York City and financial centers around the world as the United States was in the midst of an economic collapse. The crash became the focus of the presidential campaign between…
A Well-Kept Open Secret: Washington Is Behind India’s Brutal Demonetization Project
In early November 2016, without warning, the Indian government declared the two largest denomination bills invalid, abolishing over 80 percent of circulating cash by value. Amidst all the commotion and outrage this caused, nobody seems to have taken note of…
How IL&FS Used a Subsidiary for Suspicious Fund Transfers
More evidence piles up every day about how the cash-strapped Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) was misusing many of its 347 group entities, which formed an opaque and complex web, to move money around and put off the inevitable…
IL&FS Scam: Gurgaon’s Rapid Metro Was Based on Entirely Fraudulent Numbers
The spanking world-class Rapid Metro, which became operational in Gurgaon (now Gurugram) in 2013, has certainly added lustre to the modern township built by DLF. But the project is based entirely on fraudulent and fabricated ridership claims, to get government…
Authoritarian populism and popular struggles in Modi’s India
During the summer months of 2018, the term “urban Naxals” began circulating in the Indian public sphere. Coined by third-rate film-maker and Hindu nationalist hatemonger Vivek Agnihotri in his extraordinarily cringeworthy book Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a…
Facebook, the biggest online social media group in the world, is under unprecedented attack following the publication on 14 November of a 5,000-word investigation by the New York Times alleging a host of questionable practices by the digital conglomerate, that…
Part 2: Did Facebook in India Help BJP and Modi?
Is Facebook truly an agnostic platform for all to use? After interviewing nearly 50 people over the last five months, we collated evidence (some of it circumstantial) to indicate that senior employees of Facebook India have worked, and continue to…
Memorandum against the Bullet Train Project
Date: 15.10.2018 To Shri Shinichi Kitaoka The President Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) 1-6th floor, Nibancho Center Building, 5-25 Niban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8012, Japan Junichi Yamada Board Member, JICA & Incharge of South Asia Department 1-6th floor, Nibancho Center…
WE, THE FARMERS OF INDIA, The producers of primary agricultural commodities; Including Women, dalit, nomadic and adivasi farmers; Landowners, tenants, sharecroppers, agricultural labourers and plantation workers; Fishworkers, milk producers, poultry farmers, livestock rearers, pastoralists, and collectors of minor forest produce;…
National Convention Against Assault on Journalists
Summary Report For the first time in India, a two days national convention was held in New Delhi’s Constitution Club on the attack on journalists, in which journalists from 18 states participated and shared their trauma. This convention was held…