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Blogging from India #4 Communist Party of India vows fight on food prices
March 27, 2008HYDERABAD, India — The Communist Party of India began its five-day congress here March 23 in a pouring rain unusual for the season and this area which mostly does not get enough. But the rain nourished...
Read moreBlogging from India #3 The larger context of Pelosis visit to India
March 26, 2008HYDERABAD, India — When newspapers here reported a visit to India by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), eyebrows were raised. Pelosi, the first woman to hold the position of House speaker, is known in the U.S....
Read moreBlogging from India #2 Roommates
March 25, 2008The Communist Party of India started its congress (convention) March 23. International guests are arriving now. Some 25 countries are expected to be represented. Besides the U.S., Brazil, Bangladesh, Spain Vietnam, Nepal, Australia, Greece, Czech Republic,...
Read moreBlogging from India #1 Hyderabad: Great advances, great challenges
March 25, 2008HYDERABAD, India—Arriving at the Begumpet airport here the delegation of the Communist Party USA was greeted by a delegation of bank workers and their union’s members who drove out to pick up our delegation.
Read moreBook Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe
March 11, 2008Greenhouse gases can be both a curse and a blessing. Too little in the atmosphere leads to the cooling of the earth, too much to its heating up. If the atmosphere were free of greenhouse gases,...
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