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NB: Important analysies and disclosures kept out of the mainstream media. Our ultra nationalist patriots have compromised the livelihoods of millions of Indians. DS एप्स्टीन फाइलों से अभी और भी तस्वीरें निकलेंगी | Jeffrey Epstein | PM Modi | Trump | Hardeep Puri एप्स्टीन चक्रव्यूह में मोदी सरकार! अमेरिकी दबाव में व्यापार समझौता? PM Narendra… Read More एप्स्टीन फाइलों से अभी और भी तस्वीरें निकलेंगी – Epstein – Modi – Trump – Hardeep Puri. Economic disaster looms over India
As they say: If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together. As they add: Better late than never. Mitali Saran Many people said, these last years, that Narendra Modi’s autocratic tactics were still heaps better than Indira Gandhi’s official emergency. Because Mrs Gandhi locked up the opposition… Read More Unity in adversity
Mohan Bhagwat has conflated a number of contemporary examples of protest to create a scary picture of political anarchy worldwide waiting to overwhelm India. In truth they are all different Bharat Bhushan Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat, alleged that “demonic forces” from the West were trying to “destabilise India” in his annual Dussehra… Read More RSS Chief’s Dussehra Delusions: Foreign conspiracies without evidence, foreign funds without scrutiny
Israel’s supporters insist that the country’s oppression and mass killings of Palestinians is a legitimate response to the region’s complicated past. It isn’t. Aman Sethi And so each year since 2023, as the summer gives way to autumn, we must consider and contemplate 7 October. The thing that defenders of Israel say to anyone seeking… Read More The devastating simplicity of the genocide in Gaza
Brian Ulrich Informed Comment During the past seven months, the world has seen the significance of the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial chokepoint not only for oil, but natural gas, fertilizer, food for the Gulf states, and other industrial materials. That strait actually takes its name from a city and kingdom which once dominated the… Read More The Strait of Hormuz in World History & the Present Crisis
Tsitsi Bhobo Waging Nonviolence When the shrill of heavy earthmoving machinery crept towards Elias Mlambo’s riverside banana plantations in February, the sudden brownish color of the river alarmed him. The water was laced with used machinery oil, disfiguring the once crystal-clear, wild water of the Haroni River. The river not only sustains the Ndau tribal people of… Read More Inside The Successful Campaign Against Illegal Chinese Mining In Africa
Roger Berkowitz Hannah Arendt’s homeland was populated with friends, most of them men—at least that is what her published correspondence would lead you to believe. The published letters between Arendt and her friends include books with Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Heinrich Blücher, Gershom Scholem, Kurt Blumenfeld, and Joachim Fest. The only woman whose correspondence with… Read More On Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy’s Decades-Long Friendship
How the ancient pharaohs attempted to preserve their legacies for eternity By Susan Tallman Not so long ago, heroic public statuary felt irrelevant—good for locating yourself in traffic circles but otherwise dismissed as a relic of some credulous, great-man-besotted past. The fact that places like Pyongyang and Ashgabat still went in for it just confirmed… Read More The Vanity of Kings
This is no scoffing matter. The accelerating proliferation of advanced nuclear weapons is bringing ‘end times’ closer by the day Simon Tisdall Humankind has fearfully and sometimes joyfully anticipated the end of the world ever since it began. The Bible’s Book of Revelation speaks of “end times”, a period of tribulation, war, famine, plague, floods… Read More Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear annihilation
We won’t be telling you Mitali Saran Reposting this column, which was published in Business Standard newspaper in 2015, because October 10, 2026 was only the latest symptom of the undeclared ways in which we are not at present a democracy. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard. In command is Captain Fantastic. Exciting new guy, strong,… Read More In the event of an Emergency
