Capitalism (11 page)

14
.
P. Pradhan, “Police Firing at Kalinganagar,” People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) report, Orissa. April 2006.

15
.
Ibid.

16
.
Sudha Ramachandran, “India's War on Maoists under Attack,”
Asia Times Online, May 26, 2010, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/ South_Asia/LE26Df02.html.

17
.
“Anti-Naxal Operations: Gov't to Deplot 10,000 CRPF Troopers,”
Zeenews.com, October 30, 2012, http://zeenews.india.com/news/ nation/anti-naxal-operations-govt-to-deploy-10-000-crpf -troopers_808442.html. See also http://www.indiandefence.com/ forums/national-politics/22342-kanwar-yet-again-urges-army -action-naxals.html; http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/ India/20121115/2102012.html; http://articles.timesofindia .indiatimes.com/2012-06-02/india/31983397_1_s-vireesh -prabhu-gadchiroli-naxals.

18
.
See Human Rights Watch, “Getting Away with Murder: 50 Years of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA),” August 2008. The report states that AFSPA's ability to act “on suspicion” has led to thousands of disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir. Many of those who've disappeared are believed to be in “unmarked graves that security forces say are the burials of unidentified militants. Human rights groups have long called for an independent investigation and forensic tests to establish the identity of those in the graves, but the government has yet to respond to that demand” (12).

19
.
J. Balaji, “Soni Sori Case: HRW Wants PM to Order Impartial Probe on Torture,”
Hindu, March 8, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/news/ states/soni-sori-case-hrw-wants-pm-to-order-impartial-probe-on -torture/article2971330.ece?ref=relatedNews. Although Soni Sori has been acquitted in six of the eight cases filed against her, she remains in a Chhattisgarh jail. See Suvojit Bagchi, “Soni Sori Acquitted in a Case of Attack on Congress Leader,”
Hindu, May 1, 2013, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/soni-sori-kodopi-acquitted -of-murder-charges/article4673791.ece.

20
.
Aman Sethi, “High Court Stays Clearance for DB Power Coal Mine in Chhattisgarh,”
Hindu, December 12, 2001, http://www.thehindu .com/todays-paper/tp-national/high-court-stays-clearance-for-db -power-coal-mine-in-chhattisgarh/article2707597.ece.

21
.
Sanjib Kr Baruah, “Dam Wrong,”
Hindustan Times, September 2, 2010, http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Travel/ Dam-wrong/Article1-604611.aspx.

22
.
“Kashmir Power Cut Protest Turns Deadly,”
Aljazeera, January 3, 2012, http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/01/ 201212181142597804.html.

23
.
“Report Raised Fears about Proximity of Kalpasar Dam and Mithivirdi N-Project,”
Indian Express, May 3, 2013, http:// www.indianexpress.com/news/-report-raised-fears-about-proximity -of-kalpsar-dam—-mithivirdi-nproject-/1110913/.

24
.
Vinod K. Jose, “The Emperor Uncrowned: The Rise of Narendra Modi,”
Caravan Magazine, March 1, 2012, http://www.caravanmagazine.in/print/1006.

25
.
See http://www.investindholera.com/DMIC-projects.html.

26
.
Maj. Gen. Dhruv Katoch et al., “Perception Management of the Indian Army,” Centre for Land Warfare Studies seminar, Delhi, February 21, 2012, http://www.claws.in/index.php?action =master&task=1092&u_id=36.

27
.
Lydia Polgreen, “High Ideals and Corruption Dominate Think Festival Agenda,”
New York Times, November 1, 2011, http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/high-ideals-and -corruption-dominate-think-festival-agenda/. While Tehelka held a “Summit of the Powerless” conference in 2006, initiating discussions of Naxalism and farmer suicides, the 2011 Think Fest, hosted by the same magazine, was a “glitzy and glamorous celebration” with guests including Thomas Friedman and India's “mining barons and real estate tycoons” held “at a five-star resort . . . allegedly owned by men in jail awaiting charges involving the 2G telecommunications scam.”

28
.
Raman Kirpal,“How Goa's Illegal Ore Miners Are in League with CM Kamat,”
First Post Politics, September 5, 2011, http://www .firstpost.com/politics/how-goas-illegal-ore-miners-are-in-league -with-cm-kamat-76437.html.

29
.
Purnima S. Tripathi, “Battle of Bastar,”
Frontline 29, no. 8 (April/May 2012), http://www.frontline.in/navigation/?type= static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl2908/stories/20120504290803200.htm.

30
.
“PIL on India Role in ‘Genocide,'”
Telegraph India, March 21, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130321/jsp/nation/story _16698590.jsp#.Ud2nkuB1Pdk. Peter Cobus, “Indian Kashmir to ID Bodies from Unmarked Graves,”
Voice of America, September 26, 2011, http://www.voanews.com/content/indian-kashmir-to-id -bodies-from-unmarked-graves-130632003/168028.html.

31
.
Jaipur Sun, “Jaipur Lit Fest: Oprah Winfrey Charms Chaotic India,”
Indian Express, January 22, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/ news/jaipur-lit-fest-oprah-winfrey-charms-chaotic-india/902640/.

32
.
Gerard Colby,
Thy Will Be Done: Conquest of the Amazon
;
Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil (New York: Harper Collins, 1996).

33
.
“Introduction: The Rockefellers,”
American Experience, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/ features/introduction/rockefellers-introduction/. “Because of the ruthless war he waged to crush his competitors, Rockefeller was to many Americans the embodiment of an unjust and cruel economic system. Yet he lived a quiet and virtuous life. ‘I believe the power to make money is a gift of God,' Rockefeller once said. ‘It is my duty to make money and even more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow men.'”

34
.
Pablo Neruda, “Standard Oil Company,” in
Canto General, trans. Jack Schmitt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), 176.

35
.
For further analysis of the Gates Foundation's involvement in privatizing education, coupled with drastic reductions in government spending, see Jeff Bale and Sara Knopp, “Obama's Neoliberal Agenda for Public Education,” in
Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012).

36
.
Joan Roelofs, “The Third Sector as a Protective Layer for Capitalism,”
Monthly Review 47, no. 4 (September 1995): 16.

37
.
Joan Roelofs,
Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003).

38
.
Eric Toussaint,
Your Money or Your Life: The Tyranny of Global Finance (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005).

39
.
Roelofs, “Third Sector.”

40
.
Ibid.

41
.
Ibid.

42
.
Ibid.

43
.
Erika Kinetz, “Small Loans Add Up to Lethal Debts.”
Hindu, February 25, 2012 http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/small -loans-add-up-to-lethal-debts/article2932670.ece.

44
.
David Ransom, “Ford Country: Building an Elite in Indonesia,” in
The Trojan Horse: A Radical Look at Foreign Aid, ed. Steve Weissman with members of the Pacific Studies Center and the North American Congress on Latin America (Palo Alto, CA: Ramparts, 1975), 93–116.

45
.
Juan Gabriel Valdés,
Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School of Economics in Chile (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

46
.
Rajander Singh Negi, “Magsaysay Award: Asian Nobel, Not So Noble,”
Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 34 (2008): 14–16.

47
.
Narayan Lakshman,“World Bank Needs Anti-graft Policies,”
Hindu, September 1, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp -international/world-bank-needs-antigraft-policies/article2416346.ece. Speaking to the
Hindu, Navin Girishankar, one of the main authors of the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) study, said that “on the one hand there is a need to foster demand for good governance by helping improve the government responsiveness to pressures through greater transparency and more disclosure policies. . . . The Indian experience, including the Lokpal bills, might dovetail with this type of strategy.”

48
.
Alejandra Viveros, “World Bank Announces Winners of Award for Outstanding Public Service,” April 15, 2008, http://web.worldbank.org/ WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:21732141 ~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html.

49
.
See Roelofs, “Third Sector.”

50
.
Press Trust of India, “Infosys to Bid for UID Projects, Sees No Conflict of Interest,”
Indian Express, June 27, 2009, http://www .indianexpress.com/news/infosys-to-bid-for-uid-projects-sees-no -conflict-of-interest/481849/.

51
.
Justin Gillis, “Bill Gates Calls for More Accountability on Food Programs,”
New York Times, February 23, 2012, http://green.blogs .nytimes.com/2012/02/23/bill-gates-calls-for-more-accountability -on-food-programs/.

52
.
Robert Arnove, ed.,
Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism: The Foundations at Home and Abroad (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980). In the essay “American Philanthropy and the Social Sciences,” Donald Fisher outlines US foundations' role in shaping political thought through influence over university disciplines worldwide.

53
.
See http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/topfunders/top100assets .html.

54
.
See Roelofs,
Foundations and Public Policy
.

55
.
Manning Marable,
Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945
–
2006 (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2007).

56
.
Devin Fergus,
Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics
,
1965
–
1980 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009).

57
.
The Department of Defense links to the King Center's website and continues to play an active role in shaping how the United States celebrates King's legacy. See http://www.defense.gov/News/ NewsArticle.aspx?ID=43313.

58
.
See Roelofs, “Third Sector.”

59
.
P. Vaidyanathan Iyer, “Dalit Inc. Ready to Show Business Can Beat Caste,”
Indian Express, December 15, 2011, http://www.indianexpress .com/news/dalit-inc.-ready-to-show-business-can-beat-caste/888062/.

60
.
See http://orfonline.org/cms/sites/orfonline/home.html. The ORF has also been directly involved in Modi's ascent: of Modi's participation in a conference hosted by Google, one ORF fellow said, “He is trying to project himself as a modern person who is keen on developmental issues and this summer offers him a platform to reach out to people of the younger generation—what we call aspirational India” (http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/google-hosts -narendra-modi-at-tech-summit/).

61
.
See “Raytheon Aligns with Indian Companies to Pursue Emerging Opportunities,” November 13, 2007, http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/ index.php?s=43&item=870.

62
.
Engels and Marx,
Manifesto.

CHAPTER 2: I'D RATHER NOT BE ANNA

1
.
“Anna Hazare Himself Involved in Corruption, Says Congress,”
Economic Times, August 14, 2011, http://articles.economictimes .indiatimes.com/2011-08-14/news/29886595_1_hind-swaraj-trust -anna-hazare-lokpal-bill. See also “Had Held Hazare Guilty of Corruption: PB Sawant,”
IBNLive, August 14, 2011.

2
.
Shortly after Hazare's release from prison, the
Telegraph reported that Hazare was sustained with glucose and electrolyte powder during his second “fast unto death.” Of the possible fraud, the physician who examined him, Abhijit Vaidya, offered an analysis: “I fear Hazare is being used as a tool to destabilise the government. . . . Corruption obviously needs to be fought but Hazare has never addressed other social issues such as economic inequality, extreme poverty and farmers' suicides that are equally hurting the country.” “Secret of Fast? Hear It from a Pune Doctor,”
Telegraph, August 16, 2011, http://www .telegraphindia.com/1110817/jsp/nation/story_14386100.jsp. See also “The Anna Hazare Scam,”
Analytical Monthly Review, April 15, 2011, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/amr150411.html.