World’s Largest Virtual #Hallelujah Chorus O Holy Night – André Rieu André Rieu – Beethoven’s Ode to Joy Little Drummer Boy (African Tribal Version) Ave Maria – André Rieu & Mirusia Christmas in Vienna 2008 (HD)
The farmers’ protest is our protest, in a more direct sense than we imagine. Food is basic to our lives and farmers have made us self-sufficient in food. Were it not for the public distribution system (PDS), grain procurement at minimum support price (MSP), and bumper harvests, we would have continually faced widespread hunger and… Read More Aruna Roy: All citizens should stand with the protesting farmers. At stake is India’s food self-sufficiency and sovereignty
In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are… Read More Umberto Eco on Eternal Fascism, or Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt (1995)
This database includes all the violent, premature or unexplained deaths of journalists in Russia as recorded by the country’s own media monitors since 1993. It also includes journalists and media staff who have disappeared over the same period. A report entitled Partial Justice: An investigation into the deaths of journalists in Russia, 1993-2009 has been published by the… Read More JOURNALISTS IN RUSSIA, 1993 TO 2009: Deaths and Disappearances
NB: An excellent analysis by one of America’s most forthright journalists. Hedges is also an upholder of human conscience: here’s a review of one of his books on war; and here are titles of two other books (among others) written with courage and of relevance to our times: American Fascists – The Christian Right and… Read More Chris Hedges – We've lost control: The real lessons of the Trump regime and the pandemic
For Chris Hedges, a reporter for The New York Times who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years, war was like a drug. Under the spell of its elixir he was imprisoned in Sudan, expelled from Libya, ambushed in Central America and shot at in Kosovo; he has uncovered mass graves and witnessed atrocities that… Read More Book review: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Many people got their first taste of South African dance music this year via six Angolans dancing in their backyard, dinner plates in hand. Their viral video, with casual but masterful moves set to Jerusalema by South African producer Master KG, created a global dance craze; the track ended up all over Radio 1 this… Read More Marcus Barnes – 'It speaks to an ancient history': why South Africa has the world's most exciting dance music
The global food system is on course to drive rapid and widespread ecological damage with almost 90% of land animals likely to lose some of their habitat by 2050, research has found. A study published in the journal Nature Sustainability shows that unless the food industry is rapidly transformed, changing what people eat and how it is… Read More Matthew Taylor: Global food industry on course to drive rapid habitat loss // Laura Spinney: Time for some home truths about deforestation
Kathmandu: In an unprecedented move, Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli recommended on Sunday the dissolution of the House of Representatives and that mid-term elections should be held on April 30 and May 10, 2021. Oli came to power in 2018 with two-thirds support in parliament, becoming the first prime minister in the last three the decade to receive such… Read More Kamal Dev Bhattarai: What Nepal Prime Minister Oli Hopes to Achieve by Dissolving Parliament
We live in strange and interesting times. There are now not just three different groups of people in this country but three different realities. That’s scary in and of itself, but what’s even scarier is that most people in power have no idea this is happening or how to react to it. What are the… Read More Not two, but three Americas: We can't agree on anything. By CENK UYGUR
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