If anyone embodies the archetype of the evil that was Auschwitz, it is surely Josef Mengele. Dubbed by the inmates and survivors of the camp the “Angel of Death,” the immaculate doctor – with a slight flick of the finger – would casually select those permitted to live and work and those destined to die… Read More Book review: How Did Josef Mengele Become the Evil Doctor of Auschwitz?
NB: Citing press freedom in defence of ruthless government propagandists who destroy other peoples’ lives with no hesitation is like citing the freedom of scientific research for the infamous Dr Josef Mengele. Two Indian journalists describe their discomfort with ‘lynch-mob journalism’. DS On the day they arrested Arnab Goswami last week every senior minister in Narendra Modi’s Cabinet… Read More Tavleen Singh on government ministers suddenly defending press freedom / Arfa Khanum Sherwani: I’m a Journalist, That’s Why I Don’t Stand With Arnab Goswami
For 14 nights they have marched, enraged by a near-total ban on abortion that has stirred a generation to stage the largest mass demonstrations that Poland has seen since Solidarność toppled the communist regime in the 1980s. Until soaring coronavirus numbers and a looming national lockdown made it almost impossible, up to a million people nightly defied… Read More 'A backlash against a patriarchal culture': How Polish protests go beyond abortion rights. By Jon Henley and Kasia Strek
This week Joe Biden – few people’s idea of an outstanding candidate – won the biggest presidential vote in United States history. Seven times in the last eight such contests, the Democrats have got more votes than the Republicans. You could see this latest popular-vote victory as further confirmation of a theory that’s been promoted by some… Read More Andy Beckett: The left urgently needs to lose its inferiority complex // Owen Jones: Even if Biden wins, the world will pay the price for the Democrats' failures
Scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that people who recover from Covid may mount a much faster and more effective defence against the infection if they encounter the virus again. Researchers at Rockefeller University in New York found that the immune system not only remembered the virus but improved the quality of protective antibodies… Read More Covid immune response faster and stronger post-infection, scientists say
Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have razed a Palestinian village, leaving 73 people – including 41 children – homeless, in the largest forced displacement incident for years, according to the United Nations. Excavators escorted by military vehicles were filmed approaching Khirbet Humsa and proceeding to flatten or smash up tents, shacks, animal shelters, toilets and solar… Read More Oliver Holmes: Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says
NB: A brilliant article. The USA has intervened militarily and politically, with disastrous consequences, in many parts of the world, not least during the Bangladesh war in 1971; Vietnam between 1963 and 1975, and Chile in 1973. America under this ruthless buffoon is invading itself. I wish America’s Democratic voters well, and hope they succeed… Read More Mohammed Hanif: The rest of the world has had it with US presidents, Trump or otherwise
Presented with an opportunity for a wholesale rejection of a highly divisive, race-baiting, xenophobic, media-hating, anti-science, lying, juvenile incumbent, a sizable swath of America’s voters decided to take a pass and pull the lever for Donald Trump, and that speaks volumes about who we are as a nation. But all this didn’t happen in a… Read More Arick Wierson: America's standing in the world took a big hit on election night / Amanda Marcotte: What does it mean to be an American?
On 24 June 2008, Damodar Turi, a Jharkhand land-rights activist and a Dalit was arrested by the Ranchi police and accused of sedition and waging war against India. State coordinator of a coalition of anti-displacement movements across Jharkhand called Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan, Turi was 28 when he faced charges of being a terrorist… Read More CHITRANGADA CHOUDHURY: Why An Aged Defender Of The Deprived Faces Terror Charges
NB: Chris Hedges is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Presbyterian minister, and TV host. He is also one of the most perceptive commentators on contemporary politics. The only caveat I would place on his title is that ‘us’ is not just America. The entire global population is and has been placed at risk by the… Read More Chris Hedges – The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump
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