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Kashmir anxiety in Mumbai aftermath

From AlJAZEERA
As tensions between India and Pakistan rise after the attacks in Mumbai, many in the disputed region Kashmir fear what could happen if the tensions boil over. Al Jazeera’s Todd Baer reports from Srinigar.  He meets a man who after seven years of armed struggle realised that violence solves nothing.

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India, Katrina, and the Bailout: How Poor People Everywhere Are Being Neglected

Allison Kilkenny    •   Operation Itch Contributor
Written beside the American creed of hating terrorists and loving the Irish and Italians should be the footnote and we ignore poor people. Poor people always get the shit end of every deal usually because they can’t get the attention of politicians or pundits, and because of this the poor people in New Orleans and India have a lot in common.

India has more than 100,000 millionaires, and is creating new ones at a rate rivaled only be Russia. Meanwhile, nearly half of Mumbai’s 14-18 million residents live in slums. In the United States, poor people suffer under a specialized caste system that masquerades as a functioning democracy. In the good ole’ US of A, the top 10 percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, reached a level of income share not seen since before the Depression.