A Decade of Pogroms and Jewish Terror: Welcome to the 60th Year of Occupation / In Israel’s Army, Murdering a Child Is Fine, but Having an Affair Is Reason to Be Fired

After 59 years of occupation, apartheid and Jewish terror, it’s obvious that, as with mold – plastering or a government of change will not uproot the blight without treating the root cause: racism Michael Sfard According to the human rights group B’Tselem, 24 Palestinian communities were completely uprooted and forcibly transferred from their place of… Read More A Decade of Pogroms and Jewish Terror: Welcome to the 60th Year of Occupation / In Israel’s Army, Murdering a Child Is Fine, but Having an Affair Is Reason to Be Fired

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Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm

Greenpeace calculates that wealthiest contribute nearly $1tn of damage a year with ownership-based emissions Fiona Harvey Ultra-wealthy people zooming across the world on their private jets, lounging on yachts and conspicuous by their Instagrammable consumption are among the most easily identified individual culprits when it comes to the climate crisis – but new research argues… Read More Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm

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Diotima Climbs the Ladder of Love / The truth about love

Will Buckingham – 2020 Our knowledge of Diotima is so sparse that many people have concluded that she was not an historical figure, but instead a literary invention. Diotima appears as a character in Plato’s Symposium, where Socrates refers to her as “a woman of Mantinea—a woman who was wise in many things.” And our knowledge of her doesn’t extend… Read More Diotima Climbs the Ladder of Love / The truth about love

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Dreams of a Maoist India

NB: Over the past two decades I have written many commementaries on Indian Maoism, of which this one carries an inverted resonance with the article below. ‘Inverted’ because had the Naxalite movement organised a non-violent mass campaign in defence of the labouring poor, it would have achieved historic successes. It is a tragedy that the… Read More Dreams of a Maoist India

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Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank

The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem Fahd Abu Haikal shows a photo of his seven-month- old son, Sam, who was killed on Friday when Israeli soldiers fired at their car. Photograph: Mahmoud Illean/AP Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in… Read More Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank

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Who will be held accountable for exam paper leaks? Records show most get away / Impunity for exam leaks undermines trust

Number of exam leaks from 2002 to 2025 with candidate count above 1 lakh in each: 45 Number of cases that led to convictions: 2 Shyamlal Yadav, Jay Mazoomdaar For the 22 lakh medical college candidates forced to put their dreams on hold until the NEET UG retest on June 21, for the 4 lakh CBSE students… Read More Who will be held accountable for exam paper leaks? Records show most get away / Impunity for exam leaks undermines trust

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Political parties must find common cause with youth, worker protests

NB: There have already been six student suicide cases like this one, in Nagpur. Lakhs of young Indians have seen their labours go to waste. It’s not just corruption and cynicism that affects our ruling establishment, but criminal irresponsibility. What a shame and tragedy. My heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased students. Students… Read More Political parties must find common cause with youth, worker protests

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How Boeing and Air India’s role in India’s deadliest aviation disaster is being covered up

NB: The investigative report below is self-explanatory; and we owe the reporter a debt of gratitude. As for the government and industry executives, all I can say is this: what you are doing is beyond corruption, beyond criminality – it is evil disregard of human life. Please stop. So many lives have been destroyed, so… Read More How Boeing and Air India’s role in India’s deadliest aviation disaster is being covered up

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