How the media becomes an arm of the government Hartosh Singh Bal December 1, 2020 {1} AS IT BECAME CLEAR that Donald Trump had been ousted and Joe Biden was to be the next president of the United States, Anant Goenka tweeted, I hope after Biden’s victory, American news media takes time to introspect its partisan… Read More Executive (and) Editor (2020)
It started as a group of activists on a budget – now it could be banned under terrorism laws. But were lobbyists behind the proposed ban? Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent If this interview had taken place in a week’s time, Huda Ammori might have been arrested. If this interview had been published in a week’s… Read More Free speech target or terrorist gang? The story of Palestine Action and the plan to ban it
NB: Skip the first three paragraphs. What follows should be easy to read. The aphorisms are not purely mine, but then nothing is. DS In our obscurity, in all this vastness , there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us: Carl Sagan The… Read More After Discourse
Both the FIRs, against folk singer Neha Singh Rathore and Dr. Medusa, have been lodged under multiple charges including “endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India” New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh police have registered an FIR against folk singer Neha Singh Rathore under multiple charges including “endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India”. Shortly… Read More After Singer Neha Singh Rathore, FIR Against Dr. Medusa Over Posts on Pahalgam Attack
While much has been written about the Modi regime’s economic failures and diplomatic missteps, the most insidious damage lies elsewhere – in the corrosion of India’s socio-cultural fabric. Anand Teltumbde on the experience of being in jail for 31 months in the Bhima Koregaon case Anand Teltumbde There was a short-lived euphoria last month when… Read More India’s Social Regression Under Modi’s Eleven Years May Not Be Mendable
As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to Russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanages Ruchi Kumar Ukrainian children from a Donetsk orphanage at a camp in Zolotaya Kosa, Russia. Up to 35,000 Ukrainian children may be held in Russia, with many feared… Read More ‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime
The international political-economic system is not just a disgrace, its a corrupt and vicious murder machine. This is genocidal mania in broad daylight. No one will do anything to stop this massacre. We can only watch the IDF (which styles itself ‘the most moral army in the world’), bombs hospitals, refugee camps, schools, and ‘safe… Read More Enabled by the USA, UK & servile Arab states, Israel has slaughtered an average of 122 Palestinians EVERY DAY for 629 days
By Angus Watson It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent. The rare event is now… Read More Rare event breathes life back into Australia’s arid outback, attracting both animals and tourists
A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support it Saida Grundy By the time Jesse Owens bowed his head from the highest podium tier to be crowned with his fourth Olympic wreath in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Europe’s premiers… Read More Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think
the BBC has largely ignored Israel’s campaign of murdering Palestinian journalists in Gaza. A greater number have been killed by Israel in its war on the tiny enclave than the total number of journalists killed in all other major conflicts of the past 160 years combined Jonathan Cook / Jonathan Cook Blog Veteran journalist Peter Oborne… Read More Why BBC Editors Must One Day Stand Trial for Colluding in Israel’s Genocide
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