World Prout Assembly

Dr Yunus’s Open Letter: My Response

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T21:57:17-05:00

So, what I apprehend would happen is that within a few months of floating your political party, mainly with politicians and retired bureaucrats (at least 90 percent of them are corrupt or potentially corrupt); your party would not be any different from party X or party Y. And you would lose your popularity, tarnish your image and would soon be turned into another member of the club run by people with insatiable greed and desire to rob the country through the game of politics. - Taj Hashmi

Sorrow Tale Of Jajjal: The Village Cursed By Cancer

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T21:52:14-05:00

"... the Agriculture Department and Punjab Agriculture University does not show any kind of interest in village accepts promoting Bt. cotton. Both have regional centers at Bathinda only 32 Kilometers away. Irony is that officials of department and PAU are prescribing Bt cotton as a remedy to this environmental health crisis. More painful is that the politicians from both camps are also singing the same chorus. They should know that Bt cotton is here from last four years and still the children like Manish are taking birth. Then another dark side is mounting debt and rising number of farmers' suicides. It is irony of Jajjal that it has also witnessed about 20 farmer's suicides in last ten years and there are several others who had moved out of agriculture after selling their land. Now they are land less labourer. Jajjal is in deed a village in acute crisis.

Barack Obama And The war In Iraq

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T21:47:55-05:00

The “war against terrorism” is a code word for never-ending US military interventions to secure control of oil and other strategic resources. One region Obama has in mind is Africa, which has become the venue for a renewed struggle between the great powers for raw materials, markets and influence. Last summer, Obama conducted a five-country tour of Africa, which included a visit with US troops at a counter-terrorism base in Djibouti—which played a key role in the recent US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia. Following his tour, Obama told a forum organized by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation that the US was making a costly mistake by not competing with China in Africa. - Tom Eley

Chimps In A Zoo Cage

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T21:45:40-05:00

By sinking to reading scrubbed-clean White House press releases, by relinquishing all pretences of honesty, values and integrity in order to ingratiate itself to the ravenous corporate beast, its members are little more than "enablers" who cannot remember why they became journalists in the first place. W.C. Fields once said, "There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation." That time is now. Molly Ivins was right -- it's time we hit the streets, beating on pots and pans and take our country back. Our first stop should be at the source of our country's problems -- the shallow and destructive corporate media. - Sheila Samples

The UN And The Principle Of Sharing

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T21:43:32-05:00

A reformed UN system can provide the necessary framework for a new global economy based on cooperation and not competition. In order to initiate economic reform, a new agency should be created, such as a UN Council for Resource Sharing (UNCRS). The first activity the UNCRS should undertake is to initiate an UN emergency redistribution program (UNERP) to re-distribute food and other essential resources to those living in extreme poverty. Sharing the world’s resources is the most efficient way to eliminate poverty and create social and economic justice. It has the potential for uniting nations through cooperative action and establishing peaceful international relations. - Mesbahi and Paine

The World Can Halt Bush’s Crimes By Dumping The Dollar

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T21:40:06-05:00

Should the attack be made with nuclear weapons--as some of Bush’s criminally insane neoconservative advisers advocate--the populations of many countries would suffer for generations from radioactive particles in air, water, and food chains. Deaths would number in the many millions. Such an attack justified in the name of “American security” and “American hegemony” would constitute the rawest form of evil the world has ever seen, far surpassing in evil the atrocities of the Nazi and Communist regimes. - Paul Craig Roberts

A true story about the ignominy our people in Palestine are living daily…

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T21:00:58-05:00

What does ignominy mean? Or what is the most ignominious scene in history? Or what is the best way to humiliate a human being? To hang his great leader? To dishonor a man and oblige him to watch the scene? Force him to drink his urine? Or him to build Zionist colonies? Is possible that none of these is the right meaning of ignominy. We are talking about humiliating a father and a son at a checkpoint by somebody who claims to be a Semite, and the aim is to have a “good time”, just for the sake of entertainment!!! - Amjad Samhan

Closing Distances With Philology

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T07:50:20-05:00

The Russian language is a descendant of Vedic, thus there is some similarity between Russian and the language of the Rgveda. For example, the Vedic words nah, vah, etc. are used in Russian. We can see that there is a close connection between the Vedic and Russian languages. The study of philology and phonetics will do a lot to close the distances and eliminate inequalities between people, and it will also help to establish Neohumanism.

Shrii Prabhat R Sarkar

There and Back Again in Somalia

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T07:39:51-05:00

When 2006 dawned in Somalia, the war-torn Horn of Africa nation had been without a functioning central government for 15 years. The main claimant to the title, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) formed in 2004, was unable to extend its authority beyond a small portion of the countryside. An uneasy coalition of Islamists and clan-based militia leaders -- the "Mogadishu group" -- held sway in the capital and opposed the TFG. To the north, the unrecognized, secessionist state of Somaliland and the autonomous state of Puntland remained the only portions of the country to enjoy more or less uninterrupted political stability and rule of law. --Ken Menkhaus

Protection for the rich; free play of market forces for the poor

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T07:36:15-05:00

The most striking aspect of the farming crisis in India is that its severity is directly proportionate to the degree of integration with international trade and global markets. It is now well recognised, even by the government, that Indian agriculture is facing a serious crisis. Over 40,000 farmers are estimated to have committed suicide since 1997.--Parshuram Ray

Texans Rally against New Coal Plants

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T07:33:52-05:00

Carrying signs with slogans of "Stop the Coal Rush" and "Shame on Texas," about 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol to persuade lawmakers to abandon a plan to build up to 18 new coal-fired power plants.

Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most American Human Right

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T07:29:43-05:00

"The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
-- Winston Churchill What Winston forgot to mention was that this totalitarian power was the basis of his beloved British Empire just as it has been the basis of the American Empire. Fascism is nothing but the chickens of imperial colonialism coming home to roost.

Bangladesh 'coup'

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T07:26:29-05:00

Despite mass arrests, the army-backed regime benefits from the fear a canceled election would have led to bloodshed.

Minimum Wage Raise Is Good for Business

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T07:22:45-05:00

The minimum wage is headed for a raise -- back to the 1950s. That's right, even after rising from $5.15 now to $7.25 in 2009, the federal minimum wage will still be lower than it was in 1956, when it was $7.41 in today's dollars. --Holly Sklar

Black Hawks down in Iraqi quagmire

WorldProutAssembly — 2007-02-13T07:19:48-05:00

Whatever their provenance may be, the introduction of advanced MANPADS into Iraq presents an unsettling echo from a previous occupation and a telling indication of where the current conflict may be headed. In 1980s Afghanistan, the invading Soviet army was similarly incapable of establishing its authority outside Kabul, forcing it to rely on its air force for transport. Washington took advantage of this and supplied its mujahideen allies with US-made FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems with which to target its Cold War enemy. The mujahideen yielded the Stingers with unnerving accuracy and vastly increased Soviet losses. It was the single development that contributed the most to the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. --Iason Athanasiadis