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Open Source Biology: An Interview with Dr. Richard Jefferson

The big multinational biotech companies can grant or deny the legal use of biological information due to which independent research organizations usually suffer. Patent restriction debate has...

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"Superbug" Controversy: Concerns & Debates

Recently, The Lancet, world's leading medical journal, named new 'superbug' after New Delhi and warned foreigners against medical treatment in India. It has led to controversies among the medical...

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What is Peepli Live About?

Sudhanva Deshpande, Newsclick, August 25, 2010

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Peepli Live is a remarkable film for many reasons, the least of which is that it deals with farmers’ suicides.

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Dangerous Repeat of History

Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick

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 History is repeating itself in West Bengal, with Maoists, the Trinamool and the Congress doing what they had done in the late 60's and early 70's. And it will not be history repeating itself......

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David Cameron: Hard Selling Aircraft and Soft Selling the Host

Newsclick Report, August 7, 2010

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David Cameron, the British Prime Minister visited India recently. His visit caused much more of a flutter in Pakistan than in India. They are still livid with his statement in Delhi that Pakistan......

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Capitalism in Action: the Case of BP's Oil Spill

Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, 30 July, 2010

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On the 22 of April, ironically being observed world over as Earth Day, the Deepwater Horizon rig drilling in Gulf of Mexico, blew up killing 11 workers and creating one of the worst oil spills in......

The Meaning of USSF 2010

Thomas Ponniah, 13 July 2010

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In 1933 Diego Rivera (1886-1957), completed his Detroit Industry fresco cycle. The abundant, controversial work, considered one the twentieth century’s outstanding achievements of monumental......

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Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel (IcACBI)*

13 July 2010

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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine......

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  • Negotiating Multiple Identities: An Exclusive Interview with Tabish Khair

    Newsclick Production, 21 August 2010

    Tabish Khair, author of various books including poetry collection, an academic, political commentator and winner of many literary awards in an exclusive interview with Newsclick.

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  • Illegal Mining in Karnataka: Truth Behind All Lies

    Newsclick Production, 21 August 2010

    The issue of large scale illeagal mining and export of iron ore has rocked the Karnataka Legislature and the Parliment for past few months. But it seems that like many others scams in our...

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  • Obama Administration: Well Begun Isn't Always Half Done

    Newsclcik Production, 21 August 2010

    It's going to be almost two years that Barack Obama was sworn in as President of the United States. During his presidential campaign he promised change. But may be the...

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  • (Un)Common Wealth and Games

    Newsclick Production, 14 August 2010

    From IPL scam to Commonwealth Games controversy, level of corruption has gone one notch up. Surely the country is progressing! Instead of bringing glory for India, Commonwealth Games...

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  • Israel: Learning from Nazis

    Omar Barghouti, 09 July 2010

    Retired Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto stated candidly in a conference in London that Israeli state has to learn from the Nazis. Not the first ranking Israeli to make this suggestion, and certainly she...

  • The Charade of Relaxing the Gaza Blockade

    Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, 09 July 2010

    The Israeli regime has now agreed to lift partially the blockade of Gaza: potato chips, mattresses, washing machines, honey – all of which were banned earlier can now enter Gaza....

  • New anti-apartheid movement grows in India against Israel

    Committee for Solidarity with Palestine, 09 July, 2010

    July 9 2010, New Delhi – Boycott initiatives grow across India - from the dockworkers to the academics - as the global movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) marks the fifth...

  • Learning from Bhopal

    D.Raghunandan, Newsclick 14 June 2010

    The Bhopal verdict has exposed the soft ugly underbelly of the entire Indian judicial, regulatory, administrative and corporate governance systems, not to mention the scandalous behaviour of...

  • Renewed North-South Face-off in Climate Negotiations

    T. Jayaraman,14 june 2010, Newsclick

    The climate negotiations at Copenhangen appear to have set the trend for future climate talks in more senses than one. One is of course very much aware of the Copenhagen Accord, the product of...

  • Bhopal Judgment: An Insult to the Memory of Thousands Who Died

    AIPSN Statement, 12 June, 2010

    26 years after the world’s worst industrial disaster in the city of Bhopal killed over 20,000 people and caused serious disability to hundreds of thousands of others, a Bhopal Court on...

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  • Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion

    Frank Thadeusz, Der Spiegel, August 18, 2010

    Did Germany experience rapid industrial expansion in the 19th century due to an absence of copyright law? A German historian argues that the massive proliferation of books, and thus knowledge,...

  • Why Wikileaks Must Be Protected

    John Pilger, 21 August 2010

    On 26 July, Wikileaks released thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan. Cover-ups, a secret assassination unit and the killing of civilians are documented. In file after...

  • Hungary, the IMF and the EU

    Jayati Ghosh, TripleCrisis, July 23, 2010

    The more things change, the more they really do stay the same. For a while after the global crisis, we were told that the IMF had changed its position with respect to the strict and generally...

  • The Wisdom of Teaching With Technology

    Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 04 2010

    Multimedia—dangerous!

    Online research—depthless!

    Classroom screens—dubious!

    If you're looking for a contrarian take on technology, Nicholas Carr is your...

  • The Wisdom of Teaching With Technology

    Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 04 2010

    Multimedia—dangerous!

    Online research—depthless!

    Classroom screens—dubious!

    If you're looking for a contrarian take on technology, Nicholas Carr is your...

  • Paid News will wipe out journalism

    P. Sainath, Pragoti, July 10 2010

    Pragoti is pleased to publish an interview with P Sainath, renowned journalist (rural affairs editor of the The Hindu) and/span...