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The News, November 1, 2008
Murder most foul
by Samina Wahid Perozani
Eight months have passed since 17-year-old Tasleem Solangi was killed, the same number of months that she was pregnant before she was forced to go into early labour by midwife in Khairpur. The baby was thrown into a canal, the fornicating Tasleem was fed to the dogs and then shot, and the matter was finally put to rest of the "kari" who brought shame to both her family and in-laws.
At least, that is how this (…)

www.sacw.net - 31 October 2008 A Theory of Crisis
The credit system was relatively undeveloped in Marx’s time, and he would not have been familiar with hedge funds, mortgage-backed securities, collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), credit default swaps (CDSs), and all the other derivatives that are now part of the global financial system. However, he was familiar with generalised crises, and tried to explain financial turmoil in terms of what is now referred to as ‘the real economy’: (…)

The constant invention of the ’other’ as a necessary tactic of survival by the Shiv Sena, and now the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in Bombay