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By Claude Arpi As ‘emergent’ leaders returned from the BRICS meeting in South Africa, PTI reported that Manmohan Singh had ventured to ask the new Chinese President Xi Jinping to set up a joint mechanism for the dams being built on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet (known downstream as Siang and Brahmaputra). According to PTI: “Notwithstanding pledges to take the bilateral relationship to a new level, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his first meeting with new Chinese President Xi Jinping has sought a joint mechanism to assess the construction work on dams on Brahmaputra river in Tibet.” That sounds good, but is it enough? Talking to the journalists traveling with him in the plane, the Prime Minister explained, “I took the opportunity to raise the issue of trans-border river systems. I requested the Chinese Government to provide a joint mechanism to enable us to assess the type of construction activity that is going on in the Tibetan Autonomous Reg...

Clipping from the "Daily Workers" (New York) newspaper dated March 25th, 1931. Labor Gov't Executes 3 India Rebels Frame-up Revolutionists For British Imperialism (Cable By Inprecorr.) LONDON, March 24. - The Three Lahore prisoners, Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru and Sukh Dev, fighters for the independence of India, have been executed by the British Labor government in the interest of British imperialism. This is one of the bloodiest deeds ever undertaken by the British labor government, under the leadership of MacDonald. The Indian National Congress opens at Karachi on Thursday. Indignation against the executions is causing mass opposition to the Gandhi-Irwin agreement. The Punjab members of the legislature propose an adjournment and censure of the government for the execution. The London press declares the Karachi congress is the supreme test of Gandhi's authority and doubts Gandhi's success. The execution of the three Indian revolutionists, on a deliberate political f...