Ex-bureaucrat says he was booked over X post for ‘provocation’, asks if BJP will face same action

Ashish Joshi shared a social media post by the Hindutva Party calling on its state units to ‘rip apart propaganda’ of ‘dimagi Naxals’. Former civil servant Ashish Joshi, who was picked up during his morning walk on Wednesday by plainclothes police personnel and interrogated for hours, said on Friday that a first information report had been registered… Read More Ex-bureaucrat says he was booked over X post for ‘provocation’, asks if BJP will face same action

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Ravish Kumar: महिला पत्रकारों को पुलिस ने मारा? अभिषेक के दफ़्तर पर हमला, बिना सबूत जेल में डाला सत्येंद्र जैन को

महिला पत्रकारों को पुलिस ने मारा? अभिषेक के दफ़्तर पर हमला, बिना सबूत जेल में डाला सत्येंद्र जैन को बर्बरता की सारी हदें पार! 4PM की महिला पत्रकार से मारपीट! आज काफी देर हो गई। पुलिस के संदर्भ में घटनाएं बदलती चली गईं। दिल्ली में दो महिला पत्रकारों ने आरोप लगाया कि दिल्ली पुलिस ने… Read More Ravish Kumar: महिला पत्रकारों को पुलिस ने मारा? अभिषेक के दफ़्तर पर हमला, बिना सबूत जेल में डाला सत्येंद्र जैन को

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Abby Martin Infiltrated the US Military. IT’S WORSE Than You Think (AV)

Abby Martin INFILTRATED the US Military. IT’S WORSE Than You Think THE VIDEO US MILITARY WANT TO BAN Watch Abby Martin’s New Film “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” now: http://www.earthsgreatestenemy.com ++++++++ The CIA: An Imperial History The Ghosts of Kennan: Lessons From the Start of a Cold War. By Fredrik Logevall ‘Truth is one of our rights’: victims of Indonesia’s… Read More Abby Martin Infiltrated the US Military. IT’S WORSE Than You Think (AV)

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Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’

Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime. Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without thismigration” during a conference… Read More Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’

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Could the man who murdered a Christian missionary and his sons walk free in India?

NB: Neither then (nor, I suspect today), do many people in the justice system pay attention to the fact that along with Graham Staines, his two sons, aged 6 and 10 were also burned to death by the mob led by Dara Singh. Even in the eyes of Dara Singh and his numerous admirers, could… Read More Could the man who murdered a Christian missionary and his sons walk free in India?

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Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009): Modernity’s Patching Up

Kołakowski notes, “automatic thought is not really thought: it is the antithesis of thought. Thought, in the strict sense in which we are using the word here, means creative thought—precisely that activity which no automatic mechanism can replace.”…. His observations on “the enormity of material and spiritual desolation caused by the Stalinist system”; and his… Read More Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009): Modernity’s Patching Up

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How Vasily Grossman Made Darkness Visible

The Soviet-Jewish writer bore eternal witness to the crimes of totalitarianism by Gary Saul Morson Vasily Grossman, the Russian-Jewish writer best known for the 1959 novel titled Life and Fate, has that book’s protagonist, Viktor Shtrum, express the view that the USSR is remarkably similar to its mortal enemy, Nazi Germany. Both are one-party states; both use… Read More How Vasily Grossman Made Darkness Visible

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Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis

George Monbiot: Murderous heat, an endangered food supply and no net zero: the life the radical right wants you to have Nepal’s flash floods expose something more fundamental: the problem is not the absence of a warning system – it is a climate crisis that is producing hazards that behave differently from those the systems… Read More Nepal-Tibet flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis

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The dark forest of Katlekan: Why we must stop the plunder of the Western Ghats

To defend the ecology of the irreplaceable Western Ghats entails renewing our ties to the natural world. No trite nostrum along the lines of ‘sustainable development’ will suffice. Sustainability is about what we can go on taking from nature without finding the courage to face our organised, well-disguised greed By Aseem Shrivastava The canopy closes… Read More The dark forest of Katlekan: Why we must stop the plunder of the Western Ghats

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