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A Prout Convention was organised at 'Mahanayak Uttam Mancha', Kolkata on the 9th of September, 2007, by Proutist Universal (PU), Kolkata. Various eminent speakers spoke on different aspects of the socio-economic philosophy of Progressive Utilisation Theory (Prout), propounded by the great philosopher Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Three sessions were held during the convention apart from the inaugural session. The first session was on the 'Agricultural and Rural Development Policies of Prout'. The second session was on the 'Industrial and Economic Policies of Prout', and the final session was on 'Prout and Sadvipra Samaj'. During the lunch and breaks informative posters displaying the policy stances of Prout were displayed.

More than 500 people attended the Convention, which was convened by Ac. Tanmayananda Avt. on behalf of Proutist Universal.

MEXICO CITY (IPS) - Tensions between indigenous people, governments and transnational corporations will grow in the second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People, which began in 2005, say experts.

Against that backdrop, some of the 840 indigenous groups in the Americas could even disappear, they warn.

"Indigenous people today are living in a period characterised by the most unbridled imperial capitalism ever, with weakened states that are at the service of transnational interests," José del Val, head of the Mexico Multicultural Nation University Programme (PUMC) and former director of the Inter-American Indigenous Institute, told IPS.

"They stood up together to protect the honor of the sound that issued from the lips of a new-born babe churning the very core of his existence, the utterance that sanctified for him his first lesson of humanity" (~ Hasan Hafizur Rahaman ~)

There are certain days which remain ever memorable and sacred to certain communities. This applies to the 21st February. On this very day the people of East Bengal attained martyrdom by fomenting a revolution to save Bengali language as the official language of their country.

Iran is between a rock and a hard place when it comes to their economic and political survival. Iran is under considerable pressure to give up its nuclear energy program by the implementation of U.N. security resolutions. Yet the situations isn't as easy for the Iranians as they will have to choose between a powerful energy resource that will spark its growing economy or serious economic consequences that may hinder future growth.

National News Service, Kolkata - 7th August 2006: A casteless, dowryless and priestless revolutionary marriage took place at Dishari (Marriage Hall) in Salt Lake City of Kolkata on 4th August 2006 with a Sanyasini in saffron robes conducting the ceremony. Two Bengali speaking persons - a boy and a girl -of different castes were united in matrimony under the auspices of Ananda Marga founded by Marga Guru Shrii Shrii Anandamurtjii. The married couple were Sri Kaushik Maity and Srimati Manidipa Hazra.

BANGKOK - Myanmar's military rulers have begun a significant internal shakeup of the army and government in preparation for a planned political transition to civilian rule, according to Yangon-based diplomats.

Eight deputy ministers and a Supreme Court judge were recently relieved of their posts and several other cabinet changes are believed to be in the pipeline.

Editor's note: In the U.S., the word "liberal" is taken generally to mean center-left and at one time included defense of worker rights against capital and a more equitable distribution of wealth.

"It has become the typical response of liberal Democrats and most U.S. Labor leaders, when they come up against corporate America's definition of 'reality,' not to challenge it but to adjust to it."

"If this is the best American capitalism has to offer, maybe it's the system and not workers' hopes that have to be changed?"

A few weeks ago George McGovern, former US senator for South Dakota & 1972 Democratic Presidential candidate, made use of the opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times to display his liberal orthodoxy. His message, in a piece (May 22) called "The End of More"?

Evo Morales' election in Bolivia [Dec. 2005 - eds.], with an unprecedented (for that country) 54 percent of the vote, is seen and analyzed here mostly in political terms. He is a former head of the coca growers union and opposes the U.S.-sponsored attempts to eradicate the production of coca. He has talked about nationalizing the natural gas resources now owned by foreign corporations. "We're not just anti-neoliberal, we're anti-imperialist in our blood," he proclaimed at a recent campaign rally. These things will be more than enough to ensure that he does not get a fair hearing here in the United States.

If your country has a possibility bombing the atomic one in the future, just think it over..... 500,000 of our lovely grandparents died in the flash with Radioactive Heat ..... Thousands of bodies were evaporated ..... Other survivors, after 50 years, are still suffering from the effects......

For the past century, human beings had the agricultural capacity, the technology and the organizational skills to feed every last person on the planet. Yet, marching along into the 21st century, 80 percent of the world's population lives in absolute poverty - economically defined as missing one or more of the five fundamental necessities of life, i.e., food, clothing, shelter, health care and education. Millions of people have died of neglect, disease, malnutrition and starvation. In large part they have died because precious funds went instead to feed the war machine, also called euphemistically as "military expenditures" or "milex." More recently these costs are referred to not even as military expenditures but as "defense expenditures." This change was wrought in 1947 when the extant Department of War was renamed to Department of Defense. George Orwell referred to these nefarious terminological twists as "doublethink" and "doublespeak."

The driving force behind the Cold War, which was continued by Ronald Reagan through the 1980s and continued to the extreme with 9/11, was fear. If a government can manage to instill high levels of fear into the populace, that government can do anything it wants, in the name of alleviating that fear. Hence the American people always said 'yes' to wars.