Dear readers, I find that a large number of subscribers are listed by my host as Not Sending; or Blocked; or Bounced This means WordPress.com has paused email delivery to that person. This usually happens if: You unsubscribed manually; or your server is blocking receipt of my posts Your emails bounced (e.g., invalid or full… Read More Note for my subscribing readers
An Israeli firm sought to influence more than 30 elections around the world for clients by hacking, sabotage and spreading disinformation, according to an undercover media investigation published Wednesday. It adds to a growing body of evidence that shadowy private firms across the world are profiting from invasive hacking tools and the power of social… Read More Israeli firm ‘boasted’ of meddling in more than 30 elections worldwide
On Carlo Ginzburg (1939–2026) Amelia Soth It was like falling in love: passionate, immediate, and naive. In the library at the Scuola Normale in Pisa, Carlo Ginzburg, age 20, made three decisions in the same instant: to become a historian, to study witchcraft trials, and to try and rescue (to use his term) the voices… Read More Playing Roulette in the Archives
http://www.reporters-collective.in ECI’s internal records of 2024 elections show that on 51 seats in Maharashtra, Haryana and J&K, votes counted differed from votes cast by citizens. In some seats, the votes counted from EVMs mismatched the votes cast by lakhs. While in 19 of the seats, the ECI did not even record the number of votes… Read More Exclusive: The Mismatch in 2024 Election Votes
From Serbia to Bangladesh and India to France, young people are pushing back against authoritarianism and reshaping political landscapes By Ashifa Kassam and Lex McMenamin In Brazil, they rallied online by the millions, sharing videos and spreading memes. In Serbia, they cycled across Europe and ran ultramarathons to make their voices heard. Both movements burst… Read More ‘A global political awakening’: how gen Z protests are sweeping the world
Modi राज में Corruption के टूटे रिकॉर्ड, सच जानकर हिल जाएँगे आप || Ashok Kumar Pandey
NB: The towering achievement of the ‘crazy old women’ – the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Salute DS Tali Goldman The news broke on August 5, 2014, and it shook all of Argentina: After a thirty-six-year search, Estela de Carlotto, the president of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (the Grandmothers of the Plaza de… Read More Beyond Lost and Found
NB: This is why capitalism is a manifestation of nihilism: nothing has any ethical meaning, only profit matters. I am concerned that so many of us, including me, are dependent on YouTube, for teaching, for entertainment, for independent news channels. We users should ask those who manage YouTube to cease adding to the climate of… Read More Advertising industry must stop funding online hate, whistleblowing execs warn
Nine months after the US abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a highly unusual oil deal has surfaced. Nine months after the US abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a highly unusual oil deal has surfaced. The US claims to have struck an agreement to take control of about a fifth of Venezuela’s oil reserves. But this… Read More Inside the US Takeover of Venezuelan Oil
A conversation with David Rieff and Steve Wasserman / New Lehrhaus Robert Oppenheimer helped bring the atomic bomb into existence, then became a target of the government he served. In this conversation hosted by New Lehrhaus on October 25, 2026, biographer David Rieff joins publisher Steve Wasserman to explore Oppenheimer’s political awakening, his relationship to… Read More Oppenheimer, the Bomb and the Price of Serving the State
Chris Hedges and Norman Finkelstein The greatest injustices in the world are often masked in volumes of complex and incomprehensible legal language that are not accessible to the general public. The genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is one horrific example of how the world’s highest legal institutions appear to have gone through the motions of… Read More How The International Community Sold Out Gaza & Killed Itself In The Process
