Netanyahu’s boycott of Haaretz won’t stop us reporting the grim truth about Israel’s wars

Unlike most Israeli news outlets, my paper shows the suffering in Gaza and Lebanon. That’s why the government has targeted us. The boycott of Haaretz lacks a legal basis, but Netanyahu couldn’t care less Aluf Benn ruth is the first casualty of war” goes the old cliche, but like any other adage, it holds a… Read More Netanyahu’s boycott of Haaretz won’t stop us reporting the grim truth about Israel’s wars

27th November 2024 Dilip

The Art of Survival in Iran’s Repressive Regime

Siyavash Shahabi Life in Iran under a totalitarian regime is a relentless performance, a dance of endurance. It’s like Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano’s “Art/Life: One Year Performance 1983–1984,” where they tied themselves together by an 8-foot rope, day after day. The rope held them close but kept them apart, bound by rules but divided… Read More The Art of Survival in Iran’s Repressive Regime

23rd November 2024 Dilip

Requiem for an Empire

By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony would persist to 2040 or 2050, he argued that “the demise of the United States as the global superpower could come… in 2025, just… Read More Requiem for an Empire

22nd November 2024 Dilip

Jesse Owens pierced a myth

“When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn’t ride in the front of the bus,” Owens said. “I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House… Read More Jesse Owens pierced a myth

21st November 2024 Dilip

Gautam Adani indicted in New York on bribery charges

Ramishah Maruf, CNN Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and other executives were indicted in New York for roles in a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice said Wednesday. Authorities said Adani and seven other senior business executives, including his nephew Sagar Adani, promised more than $250 million in bribes to Indian government officials to… Read More Gautam Adani indicted in New York on bribery charges

21st November 2024 Dilip

Chris Hedges: Organized Oblivion

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting: Milan Kundera NEW YORK: I am in the The Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center next to the St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in Manhattan. I am holding a bound, hand-written memoir, which includes poetry, drawings, and scrapbooked images, by Zaven Seraidarian, a… Read More Chris Hedges: Organized Oblivion

20th November 2024 Dilip

In the Land of the Vishwaguru, We Are Frogs in a Well

At a recent trip to Uzbekistan, I was expecting to be treated as a visitor from the country that we have been regularly informed during last 10 years, is the “vishwaguru”. Sanjiv Krishan Sood (Retired Additional Director General, BSF) Caveat: I risk confirming the status of an ‘anti-national’, given to me by many of my friends… Read More In the Land of the Vishwaguru, We Are Frogs in a Well

20th November 2024 Dilip

Wickedness as Psychological Breakdown

NB: The phrase above is the title of a paper by Professor Julia Annas, published in 2005. Reference details are available here: Wickedness as Psychological Breakdown; those interested may obtain the full text via institutional channels. I post it as the title for a few reflections on the tidal wave of revengeful mania sweeping through… Read More Wickedness as Psychological Breakdown

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After the truth-shower

Philosophy, history, literature, current affairs, and other stuff. Posted by Dilip Simeon

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