UK Antarctic Heritage Trust fills vacancy at world’s most southerly post office, as well as recruiting team to monitor wildlife and carry out building repairs Esther Addley As a professional “tent master”, whose work involves building big tops at music festivals, George Clarke has never run a post office – and certainly never counted penguins… Read More ‘Coolest job on Earth’: Antarctica welcomes new postmaster
By Betsey Piette On May 10, Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed Congress and lied. He said: “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.” This is despite an explosive report given to Blinken in April 2024, from the State Department’s Refugees… Read More The billionaire companies behind Israel’s bombs
History did not start on 7 October 2023. While that date may mark a tragedy for Israel, every single day for the last 76 years has marked some sort of catastrophe for Palestinians. My paternal grandparents originally lived in Haifa; in 1948, during the Nakba, they were among the 700,000 Palestinians forced to flee or expelled… Read More As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity
according to the Costs of War Project, the USA ended up spending at least $8 trillion on those wars. According to that project, an estimated 940,000 people died directly thanks to America’s war on terror (almost half of them civilians) and 3.6 to 3.8 million indirectly in its war zones, bringing the total to nearly five million dead…. that group has estimated that… Read More Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars
Israel often narrates relations between Israelis and Palestinians as replete with traumas that are never forgotten and are used “to legitimate the killing of Palestinians as an effective tool to preserve a secure Jewish state and prepare Israeli youth to be good soldiers and to carry on the practices of occupation”, as Israeli professor Nurit… Read More When will this horror end? When Israel realises that the cost of destroying us is too high
And it is very much a willing belligerent in a conflict of its own making. Belén Fernández Yesterday, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s assassination in Beirut of Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah last week and its assassination in Tehran of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in July. United States President Joe Biden instructed the US… Read More The United States is already at war
Every night we huddle together and pray our building doesn’t collapse over us. Who will stop this war – and give us a future? A voice from Gaza Living in Gaza has given me a profound and often challenging perspective on life. I am a person who doesn’t usually feel afraid, but the things we are seeing… Read More In Gaza, we have one question for the rest of the world: aren’t we human, just like you?
Sai Mukhesh Harmony and hatred can coexist within individuals, at the same time, from different religious communities. This is not a matter of harmony being present in the distant past, only to be replaced by hatred after some incident. In the Indian subcontinent—with a long history of communal tensions—it is difficult to understand what the… Read More इत्तिहाद (Ittiḥād)
NB: This is the text of the talk I delivered on October 2 at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi. DS The bane of our life is our exclusive provincialism, whereas my province must be co-extensive with the Indian boundary so that ultimately it extends to the boundary of the earth. Else it perishes – Mahatma Gandhi,… Read More The Oceanic Circle: Talk on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 155th birthday
The RSS legal front’s increasing hold over the judicial system “The project ahead is to determine how a new constitution could be created—who should be a part of this new project. The Constitution can be overthrown,” said an ABAP member and a former assistant solicitor general. Sushovan Patnaik ON THE EVENING OF 5 SEPTEMBER, a fleet… Read More Lowering the Bar
After the truth-shower 