Development: September 2005 Archives

Though African Americans have made progress under the aegis of American civil rights ideology, they still lag behind non-blacks in earnings and wealth. Not only that, in the key category of ownership of economic institutions, they consistently end up with less than one percent of business sales and revenues.

This makes the African American community deeply subservient to other ethnic and racial groups in the U.S., not in a position of economic strength, not only in spite of, but because of the civil rights ideology. The following article compares black nationalist greats Malcolm X and Rene W.E.B. Du Bois with contemporary civil rights leaders in terms of the economic ideology and possibilities they offer and concludes blacks would be better off following black nationalist ideas, many
of which are supported by and elaborated in Prout ........ Read More

Another political season in Russia is opening quite evenly; there are no storms and cataclysms. But some political experts sound the alarm and warn of coming troubles. Director of the Institute for Political Research Sergey Markov, chairman of the National Strategy Council Valery Khomyakov and Director of the Institute for Regional Problems Maksim Dianov have organized a press-conference to warn of the menacing threat. Sergey Markov says the political experts want to help the Kremlin and community understand that main objective of the authority must be forming a strong anti-oligarchic coalition by the year of 2008 to prevent a coup.

Professor A.T.M. Jahurul Huq, Professor of Economics at Dhaka Univesity, Bangladesh, talks about Shrii Sarkar's valuable contributions to modern economic theory.

Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar is known across the world as a great spiritual leader who dedicated his life to freeing mankind from vices, poverty and different worldly sufferings. In this effort he, on the one hand, played the role of a spiritual leader and on the other, manifested dynamic approaches towards arriving at the highest social welfare through the implementation of basic economic principles and ideals for the economic liberation of mankind. He was an economist who sacrificed his life for the emancipation of humanity from poverty and spiritual pauperism.