First posted October 26, 2019 Soon after Rama enters the aranya, Sita delivers a lecture on Kshatriya dharma. A rare instance.. when Sita advises her husband to be cautious… Sita warns that his use of force may damage the forest and his own reputation. Of three grave evils, she notes, two – the “habit of telling specious… Read More Ashutosh Bhardwaj: On Diwali, Ramayana show us the light
The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it, but using it as an excuse to justify the genocide of the Palestinian people – Norman Finkelstein Acclaimed scholar & author Norman Finkelstein delivered a powerful and defiant address at UMass, Amherst, on Sept. 24, 2025. Speaking before a packed audience, Finkelstein… Read More Norman Finkelstein’s talk at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
Israeli society is prepared to process the failures of Oct. 7 in technical terms – military intel, army, logistics – but refuses to confront its own moral blindness. This is where the ‘other Israel’ must step in Eran Rolnik “The other Germany” is a phrase that entered public discourse in Israel in the early 1950s,… Read More In the Rush to Move On, Who Will Make Israel Face Its Moral Failures?
the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction … no longer exists: Hannah Arendt NB: The author asks: If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live… Read More A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
Dragged by her hair, incessantly punched and kicked, stripped naked, wrapped in an Israeli flag, sexually humiliated in her own language (lilla hora, “little whore;” hora Greta, “Greta whore”), threatened with gassing (revealing detail, this), uniformed guards all the while taking “selfie” photographs as they stand next to her laughing and jeering: What is this about,… Read More This is how the ‘most moral army in the world’ treated Greta Thunberg / The Liberal Abandonment of Greta Thunberg
After about 8,300 nautical miles Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne can’t wait to share their ‘tales of the high seas’ when they land in Cairns, Queensland Rowe (L) and Payne approach the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea on 17 October, 2025. Photograph: Brian Cassey/AFP/Getty Images Six months in a rowboat in the South… Read More Finish line in sight for British duo rowing nonstop from Peru to Australia
NB: The USA emerged as the leading global hooligan after World War 2. Korea, Vietnam, Iran, Chile, Iraq, Afghanistan: a long story, documented by Alfred McCoy. Venezuela is the latest chapter in American empire building. It will meet the fate of their intervention in Vietnam. Their Armed forces know how they had to leave in… Read More Trump’s saber-rattling in Venezuela / Venezuelan Coup Leader María Machado Vows To Privatize Oil: US Corporations Will ‘Make a Lot of Money’
NB: This is what passes for academic rigour in India these days. Brutal mediocrity, mindless bureaucrats, and unscrupulous moneybags ruling over academia. Small wonder that young Indians are scrambling to escape; no matter that the situation abroad is becoming more uncertain and more scam-like than ever. What a shame. DS Hindustan Times, October 17, 2025… Read More Shobhit Mahajan: The Paper Mill
The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide – regardless of the ‘ceasefire’ agreement. NB: The US/UK/Israel bloc is a murder machine which will not stop its genocidal actions until they have wiped out the Palestinian population. The whole world’s population is assumed… Read More The Truth About Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ for Gaza: permanent slow motion genocide
Historian Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, joins host Chris Hedges to detail the dwindling academic freedom in American universities and society at large as Donald Trump’s grip on free speech tightens. Khalidi notes that while the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism is an old tactic to stifle academic scrutiny of Israel,… Read More Chris Hedges and Rashid Khalidi: Inside America’s Academic Gulags
After the truth-shower 