Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Strategic Culture Foundation The Trump administration is obsessively spinning the concept of a “free and open Indo-Pacific”. Apart from a small coterie of scholars, very few people around the world, especially across the Global South, know what that means since the then incipient strategy was first unveiled at the... Continue Reading →
Mises India: Prepare for more insolvencies and bankruptcies
By Madhusudan Raj on Mises India Indian businesses, especially the so-called ‘too big to fail’ ones, are drowning in debt and are failing one after another. Here is a list of few of these businesses: First, the IL&FS default and insolvency. Also, DHLF, another giant housing finance company, is also near default. Second, Baba Ramdev’s... Continue Reading →
RW Twitter : Avoid the slippery slope of social media regulation
Editor's note: Twitter seems to be following the policy they have adopted in the USA by proceeding to censor several Indian right wing accounts. What follows is an article originally published by Robert Gore on the Straight Line Logic Blog in October 2018. We recommend developing communities on alternative platforms such as Gab, Minds and... Continue Reading →
Sabhlok on GM crops : “swadeshi” forces who have combined with Marxists to create food security threat
By Sanjeev Sabhlok on Seeing the Invisible (TOI) The Modi government has declared it wants to double farmers’ incomes. That’s something urgently needed. Let me assure him that it will be impossible to do so without a strong focus on biotechnology along with elimination of anti-farmer laws and strong application of economic policy to manage... Continue Reading →
Bharat Karnad on Hong Kong and Iran : ‘Sucking up to Big Powers seems to be this government’s specialty’
By Bharat Karnad on Security Wise Over a million residents of Hong Kong came out on the street to protest the Extradition Bill that the stooge Beijing regime of Chief Executive Carrie Lam wanted to enact into law in this once British crown colony that after the expiry of its 99-year lease was returned to... Continue Reading →
The RBI is the Achilles heel of India’s Constitution
The Constitution of India was debated by several eminent and far-thinking personalities who saw far, realised the dangers of large government and limited the government's influence by including Fundamental Rights in Part III of the Constitution. As this article points out, the Constituent Assembly mostly dismissed Ambedkar's vision of a socialist democracy : If the... Continue Reading →
