Down with OBAMA & US IMPERIALISM!

The Corporate Media is eulogising US president Obama’s visit to India as a great event. That he is visiting Pakistan only in 2011 and this is his longest stay in a foreign country are repeated as great stories. Along with US think tanks, the corporate media are writing editorials after editorials thanking and congratulating Manmohan Singh for not wasting this opportunity for a Bi-lateral Investment Treaty to ensure further US inroads in to Indian economy, trade and defence. According to them, the growing power of China poses a risk to Asian Security balance and so India should strengthen its strategic alliance with US to dove-tail its policies as a natural ally of US. Thus the US imperialists and their Indian compradors are working overtime to make Obama’s visit a great success at the cost of the masses in this country. The United States, as part of its global hegemonic designs, is pursuing policies which are inimical to the national sovereignty and the people’s interests of many countries. As far as India is concerned, the United States is aggressively pressurising the government to adopt economic policies which are detrimental to the people in the name of a strategic alliance. Take the case of the Civil Nuclear Liability Act. UPA government got it adopted by the parliament through many dirty deals just including a paltry Rs. 1500 crores as the liability of the supplier and builder of a plant in case of an accident. There are loopholes to serve the supplier from most of the liabilities even after adopting the much debated amendment. But according to US this
Act should be amended to save the supplier further from liabilities. Various forms of pressure are exerted to get it done before the outdated US nuclear plants and technology are imported to this country. That, in spite of the disastrous Enron
episode, and in spite of the fact that Three Mile Island/Chernobyl like nuclear disasters, radiation danger and nuclear waste disposal calls for putting an end to any further nuclear plants, as the European and US governments are doing under public pressure, Manmohan Singh is bending backwards to please the US bosses. It
poses a great danger to people in the region like Jaitapur, Maharashtra, where new nuclear plants are planned. Vested interests are calling for strengthening
economic ties with US further when Obama has taken steps to cut down outsourcing by raising H1-B and L1 Visa fees for foreign companies and when he has threatened to end tax breaks to companies that outsource. In spite of any amount of pleading by Manmohan, these steps are bound to be followed threatening the much trumpeted IT
sector of this country. Besides, US demands raising of foreign investment caps in sectors such as defence, and further tightening of the ‘intellectual property regime’ to help the MNCs. The US think tanks are prompting to Obama to cut down barriers to transfer of technology so that defence and high-tech sales to India shall double
in next five years. US imperialists’ strategic goals are very clear. Still, as in the past, the Manmohan Singh government is going to further surrender before US pressure. Obama or Bush, the strategic goals of US have not changed. So it is responsibility of
all revolutionary and democratic forces and the vast toiling masses of the country to campaign and protest against the UPA government’s complete surrender to the US imperialism. The people of India must raise their voice in support of the following demands to the US President: -
Scrap the Indo-US Defence Framework Agreement which seeks to convert India into a military ally of the United States. Stop pressurizing India to give up liability claims on US nuclear suppliers.
The United States should stop pressurizing India on foreign policy and to open up agriculture, retail trade, education and other services for American capital and multinational companies.
Justice for the victims of the Bhopal Gas accident; to make Dow Chemicals pay for the damages and for the clean up of the factory site; US should extradite Warren Anderson to India to stand trial.
Withdraw the remaining 50,000 US troops in Iraq forthwith; have a political settlement in Afghanistan to establish an independent and neutral state and withdraw US-Nato forces immediately.
End the US embargo on Cuba; stop all assistance to Israel till it vacates the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories.

Mockery of peace!

The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama, the person who started a new war in Pakistan, expanded the war in Afghanistan. He has created 2 million displaced Pakistanis and the unknown numbers of dead ones. Obama’s “war of necessity” drones are killing civilians of Afghanistan. He continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran does what the US government demands and rejects its rights as a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty. Yet, he is a "peacemaker" to Nobel Committee!
In 5 month Obama regime, no Bush policy has changed. Obama has done nothing to hold the criminal Bush regime to account for its crime against humanity. Iraq is still occupied and Obama has continued deadly, inhuman military action in Iraq. He is going to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan and escalating the bombing in that country and across the border in Pakistan. He is constantly supporting and aiding Israel which is carrying out many slaughters and genocides of the indigenous Palestinians. Last year's Israel’s inhuman military attack on the defenseless civilian population in the Gaza Ghetto was fully supported by Obama Administration. Obama is never going to put a stop to Western hegemony over the world. He is only another face of imperialism. A warmonger like him can never be a man of peace. The Nobel committee has placed all its hopes on a bit of skin colour. But nobody should be surprised by such an act of The Nobel Committee. Previously, the committee saw fit to give a peace prize to Henry Kissinger, the architect of war and occupation of Vietnam who matches the definition of a war criminal very accurately. Kissinger "peacefully" bombed peasant villages in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, as Obama is fighting "Peace full" wars all over the world!

Killing fields of Gujarat: Are you Muslim? You're from Al-Quida or Lashkar!!

The Magisterial Enquiry, which is mandatory in every encounter case has finally termed it Ishrat jahan’s killing as a fake encounter in a metropolitan court. It is not a matter of surprise for anyone as everyone knew that she was killed in cold blood. Such killings are happening and happened in Gujarat under Modi for last ten years. Modi presided over the government-aided pogrom against the Muslim minority in 2002. And the four Muslim youths - including a teenage girl Ishrat jahan - were officially described as "Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists" involved in a plot to assassinate Modi. They were said to have been shot dead in an "encounter" with the police near the Chief Minister's residence. But the report shows that they were “killed by Gujarat police in a cold-blooded, pre-planned way” to please Modi to get “rewards” and “promotion” from him. Behind the killings then and now looms the same bearded figure that has symbolized Indian fascism at its most shameless and distinct figure of Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat. To a Hindu fascist like Modi, every Muslim is a terrorist, a Pakistani, an al-Queda operative, fascist the theory held and propagated by Modi, his Party BJP and their father RSS. Their idea of “India” is a Hindurastra, where only Hindus are “Patriotic”; all the others are “anti-India” and “traitors”. Madha Sadashib Golwalkar, 2nd Head or Sarsanghchalak of RSS wrote “The Muslims, Christians and Jews etc., have perfect upasana swatantrya, freedom of worship so long as they do not seek to destroy or undermine the faith and symbolism of the national society. They should subordinate their exclusive claims for final and sole revelation vis-à-vis the national society. They could bear witness to their faith in life and speech but they should not indulge in any unfair and unspiritual modes of conversion.” The ghosts of Hedgewar and Golwalkar are still living through Narendra Modi, L. K. Advani, Pravin Togadia and others.

Why should we celebrate US-imposed International(!) Friendship Day?

Today, I came to know the history behind "International" Friendship Day. After reading about it in wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_day) I was wondering why it's called "International.."! In my opinion it's utterly "American" Friendship Day. So why should the entire world celebrate? Friendship is something which can be celebrated each and every day of the year. We Indians, especially Bengalis are culturally superior to Americans. Why should we imitate them in every aspect of lifestyle? Why should Yankees teach us what friendship is? Isn’t that ridiculous? I think it's a form of cultural imperialism that is practiced applying the theory of cultural supremacy of the fascists Yankees!

Boycot The racist Sri Lankan Government and its military establishment

The Sri Lankan army has killed 20,000 Tamil civilians in the name of fighting LTTE. Even a refugee camp of Tamil civilians, who had been displaced and homeless by the Sri Lankan attacks, has been bombed and destroyed killing all of them. The recent media reports of massacre of Sri Lankan Tamils and other atrocities of Lankan army clearly shows that the war was not against Terrorism, or against Terrorist outfit LTTE, as claimed by the Sri Lanka Government. It was a racial war against the whole Sri Lankan Tamil community. That is an act of cowardice, racism and war crime. The racist Sri Lankan Government and its military establishment must be tried in international courts for this grave crime against humanity. The Sri Lankan state has acted like Israeli state which killed thousands of Palestinians and Arab civilians in the name of fighting HAMAS. These enemies of humankind must be boycotted and punished by the international community and the people of the democratic world.

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Dogs should be barred from doing men's task!!

Recently, in a Bengali film named ‘Jackpot’ there is a remake version of a famous Bengali song ‘Jibone Ki Pabonaa’ originally composed by famous music director Sudhin Dasgupta and sung by Great singer Manna Dey. This kind of distortion of our great works of art & creativity is highly unacceptable. Earlier, one of the greatest Bengali songs of all times, ‘Ami Banglaye Gaan Gai’ by Protul Mukherjee has been misused in a mediocre mainstream Bengali film directed by Provat Roy. That badly distorted version was sung by an average singer named ‘Babool Suprio’( god knows how two first names can make a single name!). I think that was a great insult to our Bengali art & culture and to a great singer like Protul Da. Actually, when dogs try to do what men should do, this type of mishap happens.