In three years, Israel’s war on Gaza hasn’t just changed the Middle East, it’s changed the world

A whirlpool of violence has engulfed everywhere from Lebanon to Yemen. Meanwhile, the west has destroyed any political authority it once had Steve Bloomfield There was a world before 7 October, 2023, and now there is a world after. For Gaza, for Israel, for the wider Middle East, and for everyone else too. Not all… Read More In three years, Israel’s war on Gaza hasn’t just changed the Middle East, it’s changed the world

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Help at hand: The struggle against electoral Inquisition will be long and hard

To online partisans of Opposition parties who see the hidden hand of the Aam Aadmi Party or the BJP in the CJP’s successful mobilisations, if the suppression of Jantar Mantar 2.0 doesn’t discredit your conspiratorial daftness, you’re probably immune to lived experience. Mukul Kesavan Jantar Mantar 2.0 will spur pundits to think of the electoral… Read More Help at hand: The struggle against electoral Inquisition will be long and hard

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Election Commission forcing BLOs to verify without documents

http://www.reporters-collective.in Have you submitted documents during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process to retain your name on the electoral roll? Well, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has now introduced a new process in Delhi that allows voters to establish their eligibility without submitting any documents. The ECI is forcing booth level officers (BLOs) to… Read More Election Commission forcing BLOs to verify without documents

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How do human beings rationalize genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look

It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable Omer Bartov Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, is also known for… Read More How do human beings rationalize genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look

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ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law

Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza Julian Borger and Rachel Savage The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief who chaired the UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in… Read More ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law

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Švejk is Reborn in India

The Good Soldier Švejk is an unfinished satirical novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek, published in 1921–1923, about a good-humored, simple-minded man who appears to be enthusiastic to serve Austria-Hungary in World War I. When the interrogator proceeds to enumerate the crimes of which he is supposedly guilty, Švejk accepts them with the same disarming… Read More Švejk is Reborn in India

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The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today

NB: It’s not planet Earth that is in danger, its sustainable life which is in danger. The planet will continue to exist long after we have destroyed ourselves. DS The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today Author and Blogger Avay Shukla to Karan Thapar for The… Read More The present Indian govt is one of the biggest committers of ecocide in the world today

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‘Neither war nor peace’: Palestinians in Gaza on existing amid disease, despair and ruins

The genocide continues… in full view of the world People tell of lives changed beyond recognition after the 7 October attacks by Hamas three years ago and the subsequent Israeli offensive By Seham Tantesh in Gaza and Jason Burke Ahmed Ishtaiwi has six chairs. They are cheap and plastic and battered, but they are among… Read More ‘Neither war nor peace’: Palestinians in Gaza on existing amid disease, despair and ruins

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Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France

Jon Henley in Paris Police have fired teargas at ⁠protesters as more than 250,000 pupils, teachers and parents demonstrated across France on the biggest day yet of a campaign for better high school conditions that has been marred by often violent clashes with police. The French prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, said at least 215 teenagers… Read More Riot police fire teargas as 250,000 take part in schools protests across France

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