Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tellHeaven from HellBlue skies from pain?Can you tell a green fieldFrom a cold steel rail?A smile from a veil?Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to tradeYour heroes for ghosts?Hot ashes for trees?Hot air for a cool breeze?Cold comfort for change?And… Read More Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
In a new study, scientists reconstructed streamflow records going back 1,300 years to show that the basin has faced its worst droughts over the period in just the last few decades. And those droughts are well outside the range of natural climate variability. Mehebub Sahana The Ganges, a lifeline for hundreds of millions across South Asia,… Read More The Ganga is drying faster than ever – here’s what it means for the region and the world
Leo Strauss on Jerusalem & Athens: The perfectly just man, the man who is as just as is humanly possible, is according to Socrates the philosopher and according to the prophets the faithful servant of the Lord. The philosopher is the man who dedicates his life to the quest for knowledge of the good, of… Read More Netanyahu’s UN Speech to empty hall on September 7, 2025
NB: In India, let us be warned: past experience has shown how a section of the establishment is always ready to disrupt popular democracy by stoking up communal conflict. “only institutions can guarantee that the hopes of a new generation won’t be let down again.” No Deepanshu, institutions can be perverted by the dishonesty and… Read More Gen-Z’s challenge to elite dominance in South Asia
Haaretz’s lead editorial Dozens of ships have been making their way through the Mediterranean Sea for weeks now toward the Gaza Strip. This is the Global Sumud Flotilla, an effort by hundreds of international activists to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. But it’s primarily aimed at drawing international attention to the humanitarian crisis, the hunger… Read More Israel Should Let the Aid Flotilla Reach Gaza or Risk Adding to Its Global Indictment
SOURCE: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6NDZdw Best of Joachim Heinrich | Beautiful Ambient Mix TIME: Pink Floyd Wish you were here: Pink Floyd Project The Adventures of Mr Cogito beware of dryness of heart love the morning springthe bird with an unknown name the winter oak light on a wall the splendour of the skythey don’t need your warm breaththey… Read More Time
NB: Arvind Gupta combines humility, enthusiasm, energy, love and creative intellect in a character all his own. He’s the Pied Piper of India’s children, one who can quieten a noisy class of children in two minutes, by showing them the wondrous ways of nature. He never sought glory, and I suspect his numerous awards indicate… Read More The Science of Toys: by Padma Shri Arvind Gupta
NB: I salute Italy’s workers and students. Only mass protest will stop the genocide of the Palestinian people Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from school teachers to metal workers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity… Read More Italian workers’ strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country
This is the sound of drones and guns / Watch the people run run runShoot to kill them just for fun / Bodies falling one by one Originally recorded and broadcast as part of the Together for Palestine event in London on Sept 17th 2025 – Annie Lennox “Why? – For Gaza” is out now.… Read More Annie Lennox: ‘Why? – For Gaza’ – Together For Palestine
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words.. But perhaps the ground is shifting. Citizen journalism is flowering, through the Bylines network, openDemocracy, Double Down News , Novara, Declassified and DeSmog, and in particular at the local level. George Monbiot The BBC I joined on my first… Read More I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful
After the truth-shower 