American Communist
Hindustan Times column by Tyler Walker Williams
(The writer is the first foreign national to be elected vice-president of JNUSU)
To many Americans, and to some Indians as well, the recent win of a radical Left group like AISA in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) elections probably seemed like an ...
Aleksander Litvinenko and Tsar Vladimir
A few people who have written about the poisoning death of Aleksander Litvinenko hold the view that since no shred of tangible evidence ... no smoking gun or trail of blood ... leads to the Kremlin door, any insinuation directed at Vladimir Putin is pushing the envelope or paranoid at ...
Politics And The Internet
According to a recent poll conducted by ComputerWorld, about forty percent of the population believes that people can increase their political power by going online. Hence, many academics believe that people in western societies are becoming more technologically educated in order to ...
Socialism in a Capitalist Society
Capitalism is an economic system that stresses the private ownership of goods and property. Under capitalism anyone can start a business and reap the rewards of his or her hard work if the business is successful. Today, because of increased competition, it is becoming harder to succeed unless the owner ...
Getting Out of Iraq: Why Training Security Forces May Not Work
Now that the media hype over the Iraq Study Group's report is finally starting to die down a bit, attention is quickly turning to the President's upcoming national address in which he is expected to lay out his new strategy for dealing with the ongoing insurgent and sectarian violence.
Many analysts ...
Bold Leadership Needed to Combat the Global AIDS Epidemic
December 1, 2006 marked World AIDS Day. Now, some 25 years into the epidemic, the need for bold policy choices is greater and more urgent than ever. According to newly-released data from the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, 39.5 million people worldwide are now living with HIV. Moreover, the ...
2007 Trends In Politics And A Look Back At 2004-2005
Every era has its political issues and every election cycle has its main points of contention. So often we observe that the mass media hysteria and the tactics of the various political parties and their political action committee supporters shape the public perception and politics of the day. Indeed in ...
One Responsibility Of The RBA - monetary policy
You probably hear the name of it on the radio or TV news almost every day, but how much do you understand about the responsability of the Reserve Bank of Australia? Known as the RBA, Australia’s central bank plays an key role in the economic system of our country, and ...
The Rosia Montana Dilemma
The Road to Democracy
Romania was beggared during the autocratic rule of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in the 70s and 80s and after his violent overthrow in 1989 struggled to become a truly democratic nation throughout the nineties.
During this period economic stability and growth declined due to an out of ...
Iraq and the Misery Index
The other day it occurred to me that during Ronald Reagan's run for the Presidency he created a "Misery Index". This index represented a total of the rate of inflation, plus the prime rate, as an indicator of how the American people felt about how they were doing. No one ...
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