The scale of the silicosis crisis in India is staggering. A report by the Indian Council of Medical Research in 1999 estimated that, apart from 5.4 million construction workers, 3 million workers in other industries were at high risk of silica exposure. These figures are already over two decades old, but exact current estimates are… Read More Choking to Death
For those interested, here are some materials and documentaries related to the world’s worst war A New History of the Second World War Was Vichy France a Puppet Government or a Willing Nazi Collaborator? The Second World War Remember this lady. In memory of Irena Sendler Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Clara Zetkin: Fascism must be defeated (1932) Traute Lafrenz,… Read More September 3 marks the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War
First posted May 22, 2015 The historian Antony Beevor tells Keith Lowe why his next book will confront one of the last taboos of the Second World War Antony Beevor has sleepless nights. When I met him recently at his west London home, he confessed this in a matter-of-fact way, and neither of us sees… Read More Antony Beevor on the history of the second world war: ‘There are things that are too horrific to put in a book’
Carole Cadwalladr It was a breaking news alert to lift the spirits and make the heart sing. A tech billionaire arrested as he stepped off his private jet and detained by the French authorities. Happy days! Because while the UK police have been charging individuals who incited violence online during this summer’s riots, the man who helped to fuel… Read More Elon Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truth
now ‘the job’ is revealed to the more attentive public to be what it has always secretly been, a campaign to achieve the coercive incorporation of the West Bank into Israel. Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: Modified responses to questions posed by Rodrigo Craveiro, a journalist with the Brazilian newspaper, CORREIO BRAZILIENSE, on 29/8/24, addressing the concerted Israeli… Read More Israel Exposes its Agenda: land, not ‘security’; Gaza as Prelude, West Bank as Prize / The Israel Lobby’s Demise & The Future of Gaza: Chris Hedges with Professor Ilan Pappé
GAZA casualties, live statistics Julian Borger and Sufian Taha in Nur Shams camp, Tulkarm, West Bank When Israeli soldiers arrived at the modest house along an alleyway in Nur Shams camp on Wednesday night, they sent the women and four of the children out into the street, but kept hold of Malak Shihab. They took the muzzle off… Read More ‘There was no mercy, even on children’: trauma in the West Bank after Israeli raids
The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world: the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging industrial power, to the daily life and… Read More The Russian Empire in full colour (1910)
First posted October 22, 2013 Forever war is forever profitable. Think of the Lockheed Martins of the world. In their commerce with the Pentagon, as well as the militaries of other nations, they ultimately seek cash payment for their weapons and a world in which such weaponry will be eternally needed. In the pursuit of security or… Read More William Astore: War as Disaster Capitalism
First posted September 24, 2017 By DOUGLAS KERR One of the most acute chroniclers and critics of the 19th-century European empires of the East was neither a historian nor a political scientist, but a Polish mariner. Douglas Kerr examines how Joseph Conrad mastered the narratives of empire in a language that was not his own.… Read More Joseph Conrad and the East
Extinct in central Europe for 300 years, 36 northern bald ibis are following an ultralight aircraft on their long-forgotten migration route from Austria to Spain Phoebe Weston The northern bald ibis was extinct in central Europe for 300 years. Now, it has returned – and scientist “foster parents” aboard a tiny plane are teaching the birds to… Read More This bird came back from extinction – now scientists are teaching it to migrate
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