Riyaz Attari, the man who filmed himself brutally murdering a tailor in Udaipur named Kanhaiyal this week to avenge an alleged insult to the Prophet, was described by a local Bharatiya Janata Party and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leader as a “dedicated worker of the BJP” in a Facebook post less than two years ago. Irshad… Read More Photos Emerge of Udaipur Killer’s Links to BJP Leaders
Calling the Supreme Court order on Zakia Jafri’s petition a “wonderful piece of literature”, senior SC lawyer Kamini Jaiswal on Tuesday said the judgment is “completely illegal, unconstitutional and violates every tenet of law and fundamental rights”… https://www.deccanherald.com/national/sc-order-on-zakia-jafris-appeal-illegal-unconstitutional-and-violates-every-tenet-of-law-1122315.html ‘Heaven Help Us if SC Judges Intended Setalvad’s Arrest’: Justice Lokur Eminent Citizens Write To CJI To… Read More Kamini Jaiswal: SC order on Zakia Jafri's appeal 'illegal, unconstitutional and violates every tenet of law' / Eminent Citizens Write To CJI to clarify Zakia Jafri judgment
Of the nine justices sitting on the current court, five were appointed by presidents who initially lost the popular vote; four of those judges signed onto the majority opinion that overturned Roe, and one penned a separate concurrence to uphold the Mississippi anti-abortion law. The three appointed by Donald Trump were confirmed by senators who… Read More Jill Filipovic: The US Supreme Court has become an illegitimate institution / Rhiannon Cosslett: Overturning of Roe v Wade is state-sanctioned forced birth
January 6 wasn’t the end of the fascist revolt against democracy. We’re watching democracy be taken away not by Proud Boys waving batons, but by conservative justices who hide their grotesque anti-democratic views behind the trappings of the Supreme Court. The end of Roe v. Wade: American democracy is collapsing Judges appointed by popular vote-losing… Read More The American Judiciary is 'pro-life' and loves guns. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
The US has 800 military bases around the world. The rest of the world has 30 outside of its own borders. Washington learned a hard lesson from the unpopularity of its 2003 attack on Iraq aimed at controlling more of the Middle East’s oil reserves. Ordinary people do not like seeing the public coffers ransacked… Read More Slavoj Zizek and the Terminal Collapse of the Anti-War Left. By Jonathan Cook
Train stations across the United Kingdom and the London Underground remained closed or inoperative on Tuesday. Striking railway and transport workers are demanding better salaries in the context of a sharp increase in prices. Inflation in the country currently stands at 9.2 percent, and could reach upwards of 11 percent in the fall when energy and… Read More UK Railway Workers Begin Largest Strike in 30 Years
NB: The UAPA has become means of rubbing out the lives of ‘inconvenient’ persons without a formal death sentence. That is what happened to Fr Stan Swamy, and it looks as if that is what will happen to Prof Saibaba. This is the Indian justice system today. We can only hope some shred of conscience… Read More Activists urge CJI Ramana to free paraplegic academic Prof. G.N. Saibaba
ROLAND BARTHES IN CHINA (Simon Leys; re-published in his book of essays: The Hall of Uselessness, 2014) Sed perseverare… (To err is human, (but) to persist is diabolical) IN APRIL and May of 1974, Roland Barthes made a trip to China with a small group of his friends from the review Tel Quel. This visit coincided… Read More Roland Barthes in China; or how to plumb the depths of professorial vacuity…
In 2001, the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah published By the Sea, the story of Saleh Omar, a man who arrives at Gatwick airport as a refugee. The border official he speaks to says his parents also came to Britain as refugees, “But my parents are European, they have a right, they’re part of the family.”… Read More From Theresa May to Priti Patel – a decade of cruelty. By Kamila Shamsie
Trump’s attempted coup continues…. The Republican party’s biggest backers – such as billionaire Peter Thiel, who has donated tens of millions of dollars to the campaigns of big lie candidates JD Vance and Blake Masters – show no sign of reducing their backing in light of the committee’s findings. Big corporations continue to write fat… Read More Capitalism + lies = mass death / America’s Second Civil War is Underway
After the truth-shower 