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U.S. State Dept. Officials Will Visit Asian Countries

Officials will visit Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Maria Otero and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake, Jr. will travel to South Asia.

This is Otero’s inaugural trip to the region since she assumed her new duties as Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights.

India`s Nuclear Madness: 560 Million at Risk

Narora nuclear power plant is 93 kilometers east of Delhi; Tarapur and Madras stations are closer to Bombay and Chennai, respectively.

(NEW DELHI, India) - When mad men and women run the world, to be sane is dangerous. An American psychologist Dr. Harvey Cleckley, professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Medical College of Georgia, wrote ‘The Mask of Sanity’ published in 1941.

In this book Dr. Cleckley talks of psychopathic personalities, humans that are without conscience.

Unacceptable Police Brutality Continues at Posco Site in Odisha, India

Below is an appeal from the protesters.

(NEW DELHI, India) - Villagers in this contested region of India have been cordoned off by the Police. Entry and exit into the villages are controlled and restricted.

Three prominent leaders remain behind bars for opposing the forcible occupation of their lands by POSCO, nominally Korean but largely an American and European banksters controlled firm.

Starvation deaths in the Indian state of Bihar

Systems are in place to prevent malnutrition but starvation deaths are being reported from a state that is home to 110 million, and how many deaths remain unreported?

(NEW DELHI, India) - One hundred and fifty persons-men, women and children-have died of hunger in nineteen districts of Bihar in the past five years to 2011. The dead are mainly from the Dalit community.

Sri Lanka: TNA Seeks India`s Help for `Corrective Steps`

Sampanthan said India is keen to ensure that Tamils in Sri Lanka live with "self-respect and dignity"...

(NEW DELHI Outlook India) - Tamil National Alliance has complained to External Affairs Minister S M Krishna's about Lankan government's "lethargic" attitude in talks for evolving a political solution to the ethnic crisis and sought India's help for "corrective steps".

A delegation of TNA leaders led by its Parliamentary Party Chief R Sampanthan met Krishna, who arrived here on a four-day visit...

IRAN War: The planned omnicide by American and European leaders

How will nuking of Iran affect the Indian sub-continent and the world?

(NEW DELHI) - The Union of Concerned Scientists recently have warned that, should the USA use nuclear weapons in Iran, of say 1 megaton yield, it would kill 3 million people in Iran and another 35 million will die of radiation fallout in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

A simple representation of the computer simulation below shows how radioactive wind will blow first 48 hours.

The Attack on our Seeds

Genetic engineering is an imperfect technology. It is a cell invasion technology through which inter-specie barrier is transcended.

(NEW DELHI) - Once again, our seeds are under attack. Trans-national seeds companies like Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer are pushing GM seeds in India without proper biosafety assessment.

To be consequent as an Internationalist New Year 2012

Internationalism is an endless struggle, an endless challenge.

(MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - What is internationalism?—cooperation among people and nations, states my dictionary. The book of definitions maintains that internationalism is a principle of communism and socialism. It is the belief of ideological leaders such as Lenin, Fidel and Che.

Che wrote in his essay, “Socialism and Man”, that proletarian internationalism isn’t just a duty but a necessity.

US needs an `alert and knowledgeable citizenry` to avoid Imperial Wars

"...the Patriot Act, which I think was a draconian piece of legislation, that demonstrated, as is so often the case with us, particularly in our post-World War II history, that we overreact to almost everything..." - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

(NEW DELHI) - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson spent 31 years in the US Army, serving in Vietnam, in the Pacific Command, on the faculty of the Navy War College, and at the Marine Corps University. In 1989 he became of Chief of Staff to Gen. Colin Powell in the final months of Powell’s serving as National Security Advisor.

Leaders of POSCO Resistance Dispatch Open Letter to Shareholders

Resistance hopes letter detailing serious concerns opens eyes of those funding the machine...

(SALEM / JAGATSINGHPUR) - As our writer in India Arun Shrivastava detailed in his recent report, the Korean firm, Pohang Iron and Steel Company or POSCO, is now the Trojan-horse of the western banking and financial cartel.

What should have been an organized, project, has become a loathsome issue and activists say the POSCO money has stifled the good senses of officials with the Indian government, the state of Orissa civil administration, and the police.