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 Local Currency Is One Tool of Local Coop Economy
AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to look now at how one North Carolina town is trying to become more self-sufficient by moving towards, well, being able to feed, fuel and finance itself. The town of Pittsboro, North Carolina—we just passed it yesterday—it houses the nation’s largest biodiesel cooperative, a food co-op, a farmers’ market and, most recently, its own currency, the Pittsboro Plenty. Pittsboro is one of a number of communities across the country printing their own money in an attempt to support local business.
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A Prime Minister must have numbers, not qualities |
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 With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a stupor and the Congress hesitant, the Third Front is trying to get its act together for the summer General Election. Propelled by the Left, the Front is looking to get Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on its side by the time the next government is in place.
(Communist Party of India (CPI) General Secretary AB Bardhan)
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Depression in agriculture and farmer suicides continue, thanks to the misguided actions of Indian policymakers.
AS the outstanding Marxist economist Paul Baran had pointed out in The Political Economy of Growth, what is cooked in the kitchen is not decided in the kitchen. Similarly, what happens to agricultural producers is decided outside agriculture by public policy. The ruling party’s ‘Jai Ho’ campaign before the imminent general elections takes us back to the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) infamous ‘India Shining’ campaign of 2004 in the middle of acute agrarian distress and farmer suicides.
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Read more... [A world of distress]
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