Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for harsher crackdown as protest movement swells

Iran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement, setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown as demonstrations and a nationwide internet shutdown continued on Friday. Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days, posing a threat to… Read More Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for harsher crackdown as protest movement swells

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Muted on Venezuela, patronised by Trump, dependent on lobbyists: Modi’s global image takes a hit

The image Narendra Modi sought as a world leader who is principled and autonomous has been broken. Indian diplomats rely on lobbying firm not once, but routinely for access. Records show a pattern of dependency on the lobbying firm even for routine telephone calls and meetings — paying upfront for access — rather than through… Read More Muted on Venezuela, patronised by Trump, dependent on lobbyists: Modi’s global image takes a hit

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Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

The president has vowed to kill off ‘woke’ in his second term in office, and the venerable cultural institution a few blocks from the White House is in his sights By Charlotte Higgins On 30 May last year, Kim Sajet was working in her office in the grandly porticoed National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. The gallery… Read More Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’

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ममता ने वो कर दिया, जो कोई नहीं कर सका, ED से छीन लाईं दस्तावेज़

ममता ने वो कर दिया, जो कोई नहीं कर सका, ED से छीन लाईं दस्तावेज़ कोलकाता में आज ममता बनर्जी ED से भिड़ गईं। सीधे उस जगह चली गईं जहां सर्च ऑपरेशन चल रहा था। बाहर आकर ममता ने आरोप लगाया कि छापे के नाम पर उनकी पार्टी से जुड़े दस्तावेज़, सर्वे रिपोर्ट हथियाने की… Read More ममता ने वो कर दिया, जो कोई नहीं कर सका, ED से छीन लाईं दस्तावेज़

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How Hindi Cinema is Preparing India for Violence

Once humiliation is naturalised as a civilisational condition, violence no longer appears as aggression but as rectification. Anubhav Singh Cinema has never merely reflected political life; it has functioned as one of its most efficient laboratories. From its earliest mass forms, cinema has been a technology for organising affect, disciplining perception, and training populations to… Read More How Hindi Cinema is Preparing India for Violence

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Venezuela: Private Wounds, Loud Audiences

Carlos Padrón Venezuelan psychoanalyst As Venezuelans, we share embodied knowledge formed by living through violence, terror, collapse, authoritarianism, migration, fear, absurdity, trauma, and survival. But we also share a layered archive of extraordinary stories: the struggles and resilience of our people; our complex and fascinating history; our literature, art, and music; our relentless and often… Read More Venezuela: Private Wounds, Loud Audiences

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Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe him… When the Soviet Union collapsed, US elites convinced themselves they were militarily invincible and that their economic model marked the endpoint of human development. That hubris led directly to catastrophe in Iraq, Afghanistan and… Read More Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

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How India’s Election Commission’s algorithmic chaos hit crores of voters

The Reporter’s Collective The ECI used an untested software running on dubious algorithms and unreliable data from two decades ago to brand existing voters as suspicious. In just two of the 12 states we investigated we found 3.66 crore voters had been red flagged. That accounts for a quarter of the two states’ combined voting… Read More How India’s Election Commission’s algorithmic chaos hit crores of voters

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