Wake up: Song by Arcade Fire – 2004 Somethin’ filled upMy heart with nothin’Someone told me not to cry Now that I’m olderMy heart’s colderAnd I can see that it’s a lie Children, wake upHold your mistake upBefore they turn the summer into dust If the children don’t grow upOur bodies get bigger but our… Read More Wake up
The president went to war triumphant and will likely leave greatly weakened. By Jonathan Lemire President Trump lost. The war he waged against Iran promises to conclude in a humbling whimper with the signing of a cease-fire agreement later this week. The United States is left weaker—diminished militarily, strategically, economically, and perhaps morally. The war, which… Read More Trump in Defeat
New Delhi: Over the years, the construction and management of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya under the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust – at the site of the demolished Babri Mosque – has been the subject of several intense financial controversies, including allegations of corruption in handling of funds and allocation of land. The latest… Read More Ayodhya’s Ram Temple And Six Past Charges of Alleged Corruption / यही है राम की मर्यादा? 200 करोड़ के चंदे की डकैती होती रही, और किसी को ख़बर नहीं?
Images show Israeli military using six companies’ bulldozers and excavators to demolish south Lebanon villages William Christou in Beirut Human rights experts have alleged that six multinational construction equipment conglomerates may be aiding and abetting war crimes by supplying excavators and bulldozers to Israel, after photos and videos showed the Israeli military using their equipment to… Read More Construction equipment multinationals may be aiding Israeli war crimes, experts say
Nate Bear for Do Not Panic This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse. The World Cup is, in so many ways, a distraction from the war, mass murder and genocide inflicted by the empire and its proxies, but it has signalled the… Read More American Power Is Collapsing
“We have enemies. They are not in Palestine. They are not in Lebanon. They are not in Iran. They are here. Among us. They dictate our lives. They are traitors to our ideals. They are traitors to our country. They envision a world of slaves and masters. Gaza is only the start. There are no… Read More Chris Hedges: Iran and Gaza are Only the Beginning
The Shell University: Fully automated cheating. AI has taken something fundamental from the business of teaching and learning… If I’ve learned one thing this year, it’s that we need recenter the human part of the university: the student-teacher relationship. By Rory Truex As I write this, my students are taking an in-person exam on Chinese… Read More This Semester Shook My Faith as a Professor
The minister who had declared that India would continue to buy Russian oil was now content not just to comply with US embargoes but to look on as America declares open season on Indians at sea Mukul Kesavan India’s external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, posted a statement on X days after US strikes on merchant… Read More In deference
Siyavash Shahabi Europe’s migration policy produces deniability through distance. A document leaked to Statewatch this month confirms what many have warned about for years. The European Union’s naval mission, Operation Irini, has signed a technical agreement to train and equip coastal forces in eastern Libya. The mission is also to establish a migration coordination centre… Read More Migration, War, and the Dirty Work of Empire
Junk speak, like junk food, encourages verbal littering. Moronic vagueness is another form of junk. Not to mention how amazing and awesome everything is… Louis de Bernières Ilive in the Norfolk countryside, and what irritates me most about living here is the deluge of litter that gets thrown out of car windows in the lane outside my… Read More I really don’t like ‘like’ – or other imprecise and redundant speech
After the truth-shower 