Bharat Bhushan The growing noise in public discourse about whether freebies should be promised to the electorate suggests that the playing field is about to change for the 2024 general election. Not only the Election Commission (EC) but the Supreme Court and the government have also contributed to this debate. The Law Minister has announced… Read More Why are EC, SC and government singing the same tune on “freebies”?
Jailed separatist leader Altaf Ahmad Shah passed away at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi early on Tuesday morning. Shah’s daughter Ruwa Shah confirmed the death through a tweet. “Abu (father) breathed his last at AIIMS, New Delhi. As a prisoner,” she tweeted. Son-in-law of late Hurriyat chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani,… Read More Jailed separatist leader Altaf Shah passes away at AIIMS, says daughter
First posted October 04, 2020 By Jackson T. Reinhardt For the past several years, the study of German jurist Carl Schmitt has exploded in China. Floria Sapio remarks that Schmitt has enjoyed “enormous currency among mainland Chinese scholars since the 2000s.” Even though Schmitt has received a recent revitalization of interest of his thought among Western scholars, he… Read More Totalitarian Friendship: Carl Schmitt in Contemporary China
Deepa Parent Amid viral videos of Khamenei’s portraits being torn down in class, each death attributed to police brutality only stokes further waves of protest… Although the authorities claimed that Shakarami killed herself, her mother has accused the security services of murdering her, claiming that they tried to force her to say her daughter had… Read More ‘We want the clerics to get lost’: Iran’s schoolgirls emerge as powerful voices of dissent
Andrew Rawnsley ‘Never in the field of British politics has a leader become so staggeringly unpopular in such a spectacularly short time.’ In the wake of the self-devouring carnival of cannibals, the most disastrous Conservative conference anyone can remember, parliament will reconvene this week. Then the dark fun and gory games will really begin. On… Read More Johnson was slow-poisoning arsenic for the Conservatives. Liz Truss is instant cyanide
‘We’ve been greenwashed out of our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’ ‘Stop setting things on fire’: nine great ideas to save the planet Maybe it is the name that is the problem. Climate change. It doesn’t sound that bad. The word “change” resonates quite pleasantly in our restless world. No matter how fortunate we… Read More Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion
Ian Sample Parkinson’s was first described in medical texts more than 200 years ago, yet there is still no cure. It’s a common condition, particularly in the over-50s. About 1 in 37 people in the UK will be diagnosed at some point in their life. Existing drugs aim to manage patients’ symptoms, rather than slow… Read More The scientists working to defeat Parkinson’s disease
NB: Iran’s brutal theocracy is killing and maiming hundreds of protestors for demanding freedom from the notorious band of thugs called the morality police. Shame on the Ayatollahs. All democratic minded people the world over should support the Iranian peoples struggle for democracy. DS Nasrin Parvaz Women, life, freedom. These words have become the rallying… Read More Iran’s protests are not an angry outburst, but the result of generations of trauma
by Pjotr Sauer and Andrew Roth in Moscow Friends, rivals and enemies took their seats in the Grand Kremlin Palace as Vladimir Putin gathered the country’s elite to formalise Russia’s illegal annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine. The ceremony was meant to portray strength and unity, but within 24 hours had been overshadowed by Russia’s failures on the battlefield. These… Read More ‘Someone will fall victim’: insiders reveal elite anguish as Russia’s war falters
Narelle Towie The white ocean sands of Western Australia’s Montebello Islands may appear inviting, but 70 years ago they were the site of Britain’s first nuclear tests. Now researchers are working to uncover how much and what type of radioactive material persists in sediment on the ocean floor of the archipelago, made up of 265… Read More Legacy of British nuclear tests lingers on idyllic islands in Western Australia
