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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "india"

Toxic Chemicals Are Maiming Thousands Around the World

Toxic Chemicals Are Maiming Thousands Around the World

Aquene Freechild, Environmental Health Fund. May 16, 2008.
Over time, our bodies lose their ability to cope with toxic chemicals, and each exposure has a more severe effect.

Vandana Shiva: Why We Face Both Food and Water Crises

Vandana Shiva: Why We Face Both Food and Water Crises

Maria Armoudian, Ankine Aghassian, AlterNet. May 15, 2008.
The world renown activist reminds people that corporation-friendly economic schemes got us into this mess in the first place.

How One Region Has Gone from Breadbasket to Food Crisis

How One Region Has Gone from Breadbasket to Food Crisis

Mira Kamdar, OneWorld.net. May 15, 2008.
At the heart of the story is pesticide poisoning, water shortages, soil salinity, fertilizer runoff, skyrocketing cancer rates and farmer suicides.

My Strange Relationship With Sex

My Strange Relationship With Sex

Raj Bandyopadhyay, Open Magazine. May 12, 2008.
As an Indian studying in the U.S., I have been subjected to the sexual hang-ups of two cultures. This is not a good recipe for getting laid.

Road Trip Around India Explores Water Challenges

Road Trip Around India Explores Water Challenges

Abigail Brown, Water For The Ages AlterNet: Water. April 23, 2008.
How one man is traveling over 11,000 miles on motorbike through India to document the water challenges facing the people.

Asia Teeters Toward Food Crisis from Lack of Water

Asia Teeters Toward Food Crisis from Lack of Water

Daniel Pepper, AlterNet. April 17, 2008.
In countries like India, overpumping of groundwater for agriculture is reaching crisis level.

Bollywood Is India's Sexual Battleground

Bollywood Is India's Sexual Battleground

Triveni Gandhi, Campus Progress. March 29, 2008.
The ongoing battle over representations of sex in Indian movies reflects a larger conflict between tradition and change.

Muslim Leaders Speak out Against Forced Marriage

Muslim Leaders Speak out Against Forced Marriage

Deepali Gaur Singh, RH Reality Check. March 28, 2008.
The opposition of prominent Islamic scholars to forced marriage is an important step in the fight for gender equality in the Muslim world.

A Novel Idea for Gun Control? Vasectomies for a Permit

A Novel Idea for Gun Control? Vasectomies for a Permit

Richard Blair, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. March 19, 2008.
There’s an old axiom which posits that the number of guns a man owns is inversely proportional to his shortcomings in, eh, other areas.

Reproductive Tourism

Reproductive Tourism

Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 14, 2008.
I'm not sure that we want to turn reproduction into a service industry.

Nuclear Capitalism [VIDEO]

Nuclear Capitalism [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. February 12, 2008.
While most Americans aren't paying attention, the US, France and Russia are selling nuclear technology to the highest bidders.

The End of the 'American Century' Is Here

The End of the 'American Century' Is Here

Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 30, 2008.
The neocons' project to create a "benign" global empire is dead, a victim of their own hubris.

The Great Indian Gender Divide

The Great Indian Gender Divide

Neeta Lal, The Wip. January 29, 2008.
While the Indian economy takes off, women are left behind.

Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse

Gap Kids: New Frontiers in Child Abuse

Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. November 2, 2007.
It's enough to make you vomit on your new denim jacket: The Gap has been caught using child slave labor in an Indian sweatshop.

U.S. Stands in the Way of International Pipeline Deal

U.S. Stands in the Way of International Pipeline Deal

Abbas Maleki, MIT Center for International Studies. October 30, 2007.
A major natural gas pipeline that would stretch from Iran to Pakistan and India faces serious hurdles, including fierce opposition from the U.S.

Gap's Image Shaken by Report of Children Laboring in Sweatshop Conditions

Gap's Image Shaken by Report of Children Laboring in Sweatshop Conditions

Dan McDougall, The Observer UK. October 29, 2007.
"If any of us cried we were hit with a rubber pipe. Some of the boys had oily cloths stuffed in our mouths as punishment."

The U.S. Foreign Policy Trainwreck: How Not To Win Friends and Influence People

The U.S. Foreign Policy Trainwreck: How Not To Win Friends and Influence People

Zia Mian, Foreign Policy in Focus. October 16, 2007.
The U.S. strategic class thinks that arming the world leads to greater American influence. Will they never learn?

India Outsources its Outsourcing

India Outsources its Outsourcing

Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times. September 25, 2007.
And the game of shuffling global capital continues.

Why Iraqi Farmers Might Prefer Death to Paul Bremer's Order 81

Why Iraqi Farmers Might Prefer Death to Paul Bremer's Order 81

Nancy Scola, AlterNet. September 19, 2007.
Heard about the thousands of farmer suicides in India? Well, Iraqi farmers may be next thanks to the work of U.S. diplomat Paul Bremer and his Monsanto friends.

Toxic Waste Exposure Is the High Price Developing Countries Pay to Produce Our Medicine

Toxic Waste Exposure Is the High Price Developing Countries Pay to Produce Our Medicine

Stan Cox, AlterNet. August 27, 2007.
Many of us rely on drugs imported from developing countries like India. But a new report reveals the toxic industry that produces them and the people who pay the price.

Lessons of Empire: How to Unravel an Unchecked Superpower

Lessons of Empire: How to Unravel an Unchecked Superpower

Pratap Chatterjee, Nick Robins, CorpWatch. August 22, 2007.
India's history provides timeless lessons on how (and how not) to confront corporate power with protest, litigation, regulation, rebellion and, ultimately, corporate redesign.

Your Local News -- Dateline New Delhi

Your Local News -- Dateline New Delhi

Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. May 16, 2007.
With a local news outlet in California recruiting reporters in India, no one can pretend any longer that we have a global monopoly on intellect and innovation.

Business Lobby Triumphs in U.S.-India Nuclear Deal

Subrata Ghoshroy, AlterNet. October 28, 2006.
The U.S. Congress set aside its much-touted concerns about proliferation when businesses pressured it to sign a nuclear agreement with India.

The Messy Clean-Up of Dal Lake

Chad Heeter, AlterNet. July 9, 2005.
The Indian government has begun cleaning up a lake in war-torn Kashmir. But relocating thousands of the lake's residents is causing more problems than it may solve.