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    Renewables option
    March 2012
    Praful Bidwai

    Instead of imposing nuclear power upon unwilling people, India should join the renewables revolution for handsome gains. 

    Radiation Crisis continues in Fukushima
    February 2012
    Praful Bidwai

    The multi-reactor meltdown accident in Japan beginning last March 2011 has not ended. Plants continue to leak radiation and shockingly no sytematic monitoring of radiation levels is taking place.

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    The War on Colombia’s Poor
    January 2012
    Ross Eventon

    The EU's proposed free trade agreement with Colombia will worsen the already serious human rights violations in the country, as its drive to access to cheap raw materials for European corporations means forcing local people off their land.

    The Politics of Climate change and the Global crisis
    January 2012
    Praful Bidwai

    In his book Bidwai addresses the impacts of climate change and the politics of the international climate negotiations; and second, lndia as an example of an 'emerging economy' major polluter, which can potentially both aid or obstruct the fight against climate change.

    Praful Bidwai at the Durban Climate conference, interview with DemocracyNow!
    January 2012
    Praful Bidwai

    Praful Bidwai talks to DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman in Durban during the climate conference about the state of the climate negotiations.

    As COP17 approaches: Dirty Durban’s manual for climate greenwashing
    August 2011
    Patrick Bond

    Will the host city for the November-December world climate summit, COP17, clean up its act? The launch of Durban's strategy, Towards a Low Carbon City suggests the new municipal leaders are climate greenwashers, disguising high-carbon economic policies with pleasing rhetoric.

    Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex’s Wealth and Woes
    August 2011
    Patrick Bond
     Khadija Sharife

    Ecocide by the "minerals-energy complex" should be faced by a broad-based opposition, focusing on sanctions against neo-colonial exploitation, and international solidarity with the communities affected.

    Nukes and India
    June 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    Have our rulers decided to place India on the wrong side of history and arrest her social progress? Going by their policy of forcibly promoting nuclear power regardless of its hazards, environmental damage potential, high economic and social costs, and unpopularity, that seems to be the case.

    The Emerging Geo-Strategic Landscape in Central Asia
    June 2011
    Ross Eventon

    Recent developments in Afghanistan suggest the New Great Game is intensifying in Central Asia.

    A test for India’s foreign policy
    June 2011
    Praful Bidwai

    While countries all over the world review their nuclear energy plans and safety measures in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the Indian government still pushes ahead with it's fiercely opposed Jaitapur plant.

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