Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection

The documents, including an internal post-mortem and one document showing in real time countermeasures Facebook employees were belatedly implementing, paint a picture of a company that was in fact fundamentally unprepared for how the Stop the Steal movement used its platform to organize, and that only truly swung into action after the movement had turned… Read More Facebook Papers paint damning picture of company's role in insurrection

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P. B. Mehta – Violence and communalism: South Asia’s disturbing commonality

The violence against the Hindu minority in Bangladesh is an ominous development. But it is also a reminder of one cardinal truth: All of South Asia is “tied together in a single garment of destiny,” to borrow Martin Luther King’s phrase from a different context. Violence in one place will spill over to another; freedom… Read More P. B. Mehta – Violence and communalism: South Asia’s disturbing commonality

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The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law

The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law (PMPWBL, Czech: Strana Mírného Pokroku v Mezích Zákona (SMPVMZ)) was a satirical political party in Cisleithania (Austro-Hungary), founded by Jaroslav Hašek in 1911. The party campaigned satirically for election to the Imperial Council (Austria). Due to their dual nature as both a political “party”… Read More The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law

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Haroon: Ibtada-e-Ishq hai rota hai kya / Aage Aaage dekhiye hota hai kya

Ibtada-e-Ishq hai rota hai kya / Aage Aaage dekhiye hota hai kya Man Kunto Maula Abi Sampa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyZZBpxcLMw Cafe De Anatolia – Most Beautiful Songs V  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9w7cDeCguo African Relaxing Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njj4CX4OAMU Isle of Skye Drone Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RTMLn7rDRw&t=554s Kamlee: Hadiqa Kiani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oGSq6iGSjQ Vangelis – Theme from Antarctica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwuniIgYXM Oxygene – The Ocean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI3yNckfSvU Nawang Khechog – Tibet – Cry… Read More Haroon: Ibtada-e-Ishq hai rota hai kya / Aage Aaage dekhiye hota hai kya

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Bharat Bhushan: Will economic stress and hunger lead to political change?

Even while the buzz is that the Indian economy is on the road to recovery, Agence France Presse (AFP) reports that many middle class Indian families are selling gold to stay afloat. Mumbai jewellers told AFP that a majority were women selling off their personal jewellery – gold bangles, rings, necklaces and earrings. One of them said,… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Will economic stress and hunger lead to political change?

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A labourer is anyway a burden on Earth, now he has to face bullets too: Voices of migrant workers in Kashmir

HUNDREDS of migrant labourers left Kashmir on Monday morning, as two more killings on Sunday took the number of civilian deaths in attacks in the Valley this month to 11. While scores of them were huddled into secure accommodations by the J&K Police immediately after Sunday’s attack, the third on migrant workers in Kashmir in less than… Read More A labourer is anyway a burden on Earth, now he has to face bullets too: Voices of migrant workers in Kashmir

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Asim Ali – Collective surrender The story of New India is not being written by Narendra Modi alone

Historians of Nazi Germany have always been troubled with one central question: how could one of the most advanced, sophisticated countries of Europe descend into the depths of barbarism in such a short span of time, culminating in the murder of millions of people? Some historians, called the intentionalists,  emphasized the importance of Hitler’s master plan… Read More Asim Ali – Collective surrender The story of New India is not being written by Narendra Modi alone

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Bryan Fanning: People like us

Many of the early twentieth-century champions of eugenics were social democrats and feminists. All shared a belief that science and technocracy could re-engineer society for the better. Attempts to institutionalize eugenics coincided with the emergence of welfare states and infrastructure to monitor the ‘feebleminded’. What Malthus called the population question looms large in the intellectual history… Read More Bryan Fanning: People like us

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Adrian Chiles: A stranger on a train – and a small, stunning act of kindness

As simple unexpected acts of kindness go, this one will take some beating. I was on a train from London to Plymouth last Friday afternoon, on my way to a reunion of some university friends, among them people I’d not clapped eyes on for more than 30 years. Oddly, I found myself getting nervous about… Read More Adrian Chiles: A stranger on a train – and a small, stunning act of kindness

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