India

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India (And lied about it)

2021-01-152021-01-15 White Nettle

New research by the renowned economist Utsa Patnaik – just published by Columbia University Press – deals a crushing blow to this narrative […]

Mother Teresa India Charity ‘Sold Babies’

2020-04-142020-04-14 White Nettle

Prospective parents have been known to buy babies illegally in India because of the tough laws and long wait to adopt. During the 2015-2016 financial year, there were only 3,011 legal adoptions, against a waiting list of 12,000 couples […]

Balkanisation, Myanmar and the US “Pivot to Asia” Directed against China

2019-05-232019-05-23 White Nettle

During the 1990s, the United States planned to break up Yugoslavia and build America’s largest military base in Kosovo (Camp Bondsteel) a strategic location giving the US access to the oil-rich Caspian Sea, which would also threaten Russia’s defence capabilities […]

Crimes Against Humanity: The British Empire

2018-06-162018-06-16 White Nettle

It was the largest empire ever to have existed. And as the saying used to go, the sun never sets on the British Empire. At its height in 1922, the colonial power was lording it over a fifth of the world’s population and for many of them, the sun never rose again […]

A Liberal Democracy, a Market Capitalist Economy and the Permanent Wars

2018-06-012018-06-01 White Nettle

My hypothesis is that a market economy requires a permanent state of war. Behind the crocodile tears for the human disasters and ‘white man burden,’ people and nature are of value in themselves and war does a good job at consuming both very quickly […]

America’s War Аgainst the People of Korea: The Historical Record of US War Crimes

2018-06-012018-06-01 White Nettle

Washington’s objective is to impose the terms of Korea’s reunification. The NeoCons “Project for a New American Century” (PNAC) published in 2000 had intimated that in “post unification scenario”, the number of US troops (currently at 37,000) should be increased and that US military presence could be extended to North Korea. In a reunified Korea, the military mandate of the US garrison would be to implement so-called “stability operations in North Korea” […]