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The Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk, one of its newest submarines considered highly reliable, went down in the Barents Sea off the Russiaport of Murmansk on August 12 last week, and yesterday all hopes of any … Read moreDrowning of Russian Submarine

THERE was much expectation and discussion surrounding the July 8 test by the US of its anti-missile system which is to form the basis of the proposed National Missile Defence (NMD) system of the USA. … Read moreUS Anti-Missile Test Fails Despite Fixing

The current controversy on the changes to India’s Patent laws, the resistance to Monsanto’s seed trials and Microsoft’s troubles with the antimonopoly authorities are all aspects of the drive of global MNCs to derive monopoly … Read moreIntellectual Property Rights Or Monopoly Super Profits

THE Indian Patents, (Second Amendment) Bill has finally been passed by both houses of parliament. The passage of the Bill brings down the curtain on a long and contentious debate in the country regarding India’s … Read moreAmendment to India’s Patent Act

SOMETIME in late 1998, Monsanto — the US based multinational corporation — was tipped off by a call to its (now defunct) freephone “sneak” line that Percy Schmeiser, a 68-year-old Canadian farmer was growing Roundup … Read moreThe Bt Cotton Controversy A Leap Into the Dark?

The belief of Aryan superiority and identifying Aryans with white skin and blue eyes was a strong component of Nazi Germany’s racial beliefs. It was intimately connected to the larger racial construction underlying imperialism. A … Read moreAncient Civilisations and the Aryan Myth

Racism is intimately connected with imperialism and serves as one of its ideological underpinnings. The growth of racism in the West has been historically co-terminus with the growth of colonialism. Colonising Africa, Asia and the … Read moreCalling People Niggers and Wogs — the Science of IQ

In Alexandria, Egypt, there is a Greco-Romanic museum founded by two Frenchman in 1890’s. The striking feature of this museum is its attempt to portray Egypt under the Ptolemy’s as essentially Greek. Alexander founded Alexandria … Read moreAfroasiatic Roots of Greece

The evolution of humanity from the more ape like ancestors may appear to be only a scientific question. However, race and class viewpoints are intimately connected to such questions as they impact the structure of … Read moreRace is Truly Skin Deep — Out of Africa Origin of Homo Sapiens

The history of human evolution has always been deeply tainted by the politics of race. Initially, the reigning anthropologists argued that the races were virtually different species, descended independently from the apes — the thesis … Read moreScientific Racism and Recent Technologies in Java

Are we moving forward or backward in time? The recent proposal of the University Grants Commission to introduce courses on astrology, vastushastra and Hindu mathematics in science curricula, has been greeted with exclamations of disbelief … Read moreAstrology in the Universities: Sense, Nonsense and Science

This is an abridged version of the original article published in the May 11th issue of “The Militant”) BARRIO Adentro, which translates roughly as “Into the heart of the neighbourhood,” is the name of a … Read moreCuba Supports Health And Literacy Programmes In Venezuela