Sajid Javid, the health secretary, followed shortly by Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, posted their letters of resignation on Twitter, criticising the competence of the government. Neither explicitly mentioned the sexual misconduct and Partygate scandals that have dogged the government for months. Sunak in particular claimed the prompt for his resignation was his differing approach on the… Read More England's greased piglet runs out of grease
Justice H.P. Sandesh, judge of the High Court of Karnataka, on Monday orally disclosed in the court hall that there was a “threat” to him after he raised questions about the functioning of the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). The judge revealed this during the hearing of a petition filed by Mahesh P.S, deputy tahsildar, who is an… Read More Karnataka High Court judge threatened for questioning the functioning of Anti Corruption Bureau
There’s no dispute that general working-class support for Democrats has fluctuated from election cycle to election cycle. The one constant, though, is that “working-class” is almost always used in the media to suggest white, male workers. The representative Reagan Democrat was, literally, a white autoworker in Michigan. Even when the white prefix is used to… Read More Redefining the American Working Class. Shamira Ibrahim
Last Man Standing – Fukuyama pines for that old-time liberalism “IN WATCHING THE FLOW of events over the past decade or so, it is hard to avoid the feeling that something fundamental has happened in world history.” These were the seminal opening words of Francis Fukuyama’s article “The End of History?” published in the… Read More So history didn't end after all
If biology was the soil of fascism, history and aesthetics were the manure.. Percy Shelley called poets the “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” No poet sought acknowledgment more enthusiastically than Ezra Pound. No poet legislated so ambitiously or disastrously, either. Pound was the impresario of Modernism. He stripped the Victorian padding from the verse of… Read More ‘The Poets of Rapallo’ Review: Ezra Pound’s Fascist Paradise
NB: This is the kind of detailed documentation that we require in India. Those interested in studying the jurisprudence of lawlessness further could read William Scheuerman’s book: The End of Law. DS Chris Hedges: Fascists in our midstSupreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States…… Read More A Christian theologian warns against Christian fascism in the USA, fueled by an ideologically corrupted judiciary
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
