Month: January 2025

Israel Will Have to Pay a Heavy but Inevitable Price for Hostage-release Deal

After talking about ‘total victory’ for months, Netanyahu folded under Trump’s pressure. The emerging deal means Israel will forgo the obliteration of Hamas’ regime, leaving the terror group free to entrench its position in Palestinian society – but there is no choice: the hostages and soldiers being killed in Gaza for no reason are out… Read More Israel Will Have to Pay a Heavy but Inevitable Price for Hostage-release Deal

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Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair

Fascism in power in the 1930s brought the world to genocidal war. But memories have faded, as has the stigma attached to the far-right – and that’s dangerous… Democracy under capitalism has always been heavily curtailed by corporate interests and plutocrats who have enjoyed far greater power than the average voter. When capitalism falls into… Read More Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair

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CEOs want us to work weekends without overtime. Don’t we ask the same of our cooks, cleaners?

Karanjeet Kaur We are back to that time of the year when a man who earns Rs 51 crore tells the rest of us that we need to work harder. At least once a quarter, India’s business leaders poke their heads out of their luxurious offices, and scold us into believing that a 40-hour work… Read More CEOs want us to work weekends without overtime. Don’t we ask the same of our cooks, cleaners?

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Why alcohol is so dangerous for young adults’ brains

From the myth of Europeans’ “healthy drinking culture” to the surprising harm of some common family traditions, science is overturning old beliefs around alcohol and young people David Robson I turned 18 the day before I left home for university, conveniently passing the UK’s age threshold for buying alcohol just in time to explore student pubs and… Read More Why alcohol is so dangerous for young adults’ brains

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Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds

Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65 Research published in the Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza during the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war was about 40% higher than numbers recorded by the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.… Read More Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds

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The Hindu: Gaza and the moral crisis facing us. The Guardian on Gaza: a deepening disaster

NB: Since the relentless assault on the Vietnamese people from 1963 till 1975, there has been no crime more brutal, racist and criminal than what the USA and its proxy Israel have done in the past 14 months. As a conscientious Israeli newspaper says, after this there will be no turning back, Israel will implode… Read More The Hindu: Gaza and the moral crisis facing us. The Guardian on Gaza: a deepening disaster

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The Fullness of Philosophy

Hegel’s devouring machine Sven-Olov Wallenstein The popular image of Hegel’s philosophical project bequeathed to posterity is almost that of a monstrosity: an all-devouring machine that aspires to achieve total satiety, digesting everything that it encounters by making it into the nutrition of the dialectical animal. Pleroma, fullness, as philosopher Werner Hamacher once suggested, seems to be… Read More The Fullness of Philosophy

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