(Bhuvaneshvar, 12.02.2014) – More than 500 Odisha Proutist Bloc India (PBI) activists staged a rally and a sit-down near the Odisha Assembly Hall in the state capital Bhuvaneshvar. The chief demands of the activists were 100% employment as a fundamental right, empowerment of farmers to decide the price of their produce, and total prohibition in the state.
A memorandum submitted …
(2 April, 2013) – On April Fool’s Day, the UK work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, told BBC radio listeners that he would be able to live on 7 pounds and 57 pence a day, an amount many British jobseekers have to do with when on benefits (£53 pounds a week). As a cabinet minister Duncan Smith earns £1.600 …
Casino Capitalism: The Collapse of the US Economy and the Transition to Secular Democracy in the Middle East,
Dr. Susmit Kumar, 328 pages, iUniverse.
$23 (hardcover) / $17 (paperback).
Oil has been at the heart of the US-Muslim conflict for as long as we can remember. In his new book on the future of global capitalism and Islam, Dr. …
By Krsnadeva
In a bombshell CBS 60 minutes news program Irving Kirsch, a Harvard University expert in placebo effects, has stated categorically that Prozac-type antidepressants have no effect. The serotonin-based medicines taken by 40 million patients generating a 12 billion dollar business in USA alone have the same effect as the harmless sugar pill. Although most patients felt their depression …
Proutists protesting against rising petrol prices in Faridabad
(Faridabad, Delhi, September 20, 2011) – Under the aegis of the Proutist Bloc of India (PBI) people on the streets of Faridabad registered a strong protest in the form of a demonstration and procession from Hardware Chowk, a main square in Faridabad city outside of Delhi, to the District Commissioner’s office where …
Delegates at the PBI Harayana State Convention, August 27th and 28th, 2011
(Delhi, August 29, 2011) – The two days Haryana state convention of Proutist Bloc of India (PBI) at Faridabad, India was attended by representatives of many Indian communities from Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Orissa and Bihar states. The 200+ delegates discussed proutistic solutions to current social and economic problems …
(PRI, Venezuela) – Economy, ecology, community health, indigenous rights, cooperatives, women’s rights, and spiritual wisdom were presented by nationally and internationally recognized authorities at the “Building a Solidarity Economy based on Ethics and Ecology” conference in downtown Caracas. 400 people attended the three-day event on July 7-9, 2011 organized by the Prout Research Institute of Venezuela. Speakers represented numerous progressive …
The average price of staple foods will more than double in the next 20 years, leading to “an unprecedented reversal in human development,” Oxfam warns. Spiralling food prices and endless cycles of regional food crises will create millions more hungry people unless we transform the way we grow and share food, the international poverty and injustice watchdog says in …
(May 26, 2011) – The Times of India has issued a clarification regarding its wrong use of the term ‘militant sect’ while referring to the world-wide socio-spiritual organisation Ananda Marga. The national newspaper had issued the statement with reference to a court case in Denmark dealing with the extradition to India of Kim Davy, the alleged mastermind of an arms …
India has become the first country in the world to commit to publishing a new set of accounts which track the nation’s plants, animals, water and other natural wealth as well as financial measurements such as GDP. The announcement was made by TEEB initiative at the biodiversity summit in Nagoya, Japan.
“The inclusion of natural wealth into general accounting is …
