Serdar San: Turkish spies are abducting Erdogan’s political opponents abroad

On 1 June, Orhan Inandi, a Turkish-Kyrgyz national was declared missing in the Kyrgyzstan capital, Bishkek. His car had been found early that morning, with its doors wide open and with valuables left inside. Many suspect he was kidnapped by the Turkish security services. Inandi is the founder of a network of schools in Kyrgyzstan linked to… Read More Serdar San: Turkish spies are abducting Erdogan’s political opponents abroad

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Cutlet for Cutlet

NB: The comment below is taken from Jairus Banaji’s Facebook page dated June 13, 2021 The title of this blogpost is me being sarcastic. I had originally titled it Sovereignty of Capital or Nation as property, but thought it redundant. No comment is required. Readers might be interested in this investigation, and Bharat Bhushan’s report on  the Scania… Read More Cutlet for Cutlet

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WANTED: Immediate Justice in the Bhima-Koregaon Conspiracy. By Cedric Prakash

It was the virtual ‘midnight knock’! The irony was that the knock took place in broad daylight, and expectedly in a blatantly unjust, uncivilised and unconstitutional manner. On 6 June 2018, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Shoma Sen and Rona Wilson were arrested from their residences in various parts of the country. The arrests… Read More WANTED: Immediate Justice in the Bhima-Koregaon Conspiracy. By Cedric Prakash

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Delhi riots: HC grants bail to Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal, Asif Iqbal Tanha in UAPA case

The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted bail to student activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha in the main northeast Delhi riots conspiracy case filed under stringent provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. A bench of Justices Siddharth Mirdul and A J Bhambhani pronounced the order, directing that a copy of it be… Read More Delhi riots: HC grants bail to Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal, Asif Iqbal Tanha in UAPA case

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Noam Chomsky explains why 'vicious class war' on American workers prevails / AOC blasts colleagues for feeding 'right-wing vitriol'

The left-wing author slammed Democrats as well as Republicans during the interview, stressing that Democrats moved away from New Deal economic policies during the centrist presidencies of Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s and Bill Clinton during the 1990s. “By the late 1970s — the late Carter years — the Democrats basically told the working… Read More Noam Chomsky explains why 'vicious class war' on American workers prevails / AOC blasts colleagues for feeding 'right-wing vitriol'

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Bharat Bhushan: It suits the RSS to allow BJP to encourage defections from other parties

NB: Some weeks ago, the RSS’ student front the ABVP got a Kerala professor suspended for calling the RSS a proto-fascist organisation. Actually the progenitors of Hindutva were eager admirers of Nazism and Fascism. Here is the research article on Hindutva’s fascist connection from the 1930’s. Also relevant is Desraj Goyals seminal book on the RSS Some information for Israelis… Read More Bharat Bhushan: It suits the RSS to allow BJP to encourage defections from other parties

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“I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone” – Sigmund Freud, 1938

“What progress we are making! In the middle ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.”   Late in May 1938, an 82-year old Sigmund Freud and his family were in Vienna eagerly awaiting the final details to be sorted before they could leave their country for good. There was no… Read More “I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone” – Sigmund Freud, 1938

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Alexxa Gotthardt: Unraveling the mysteries of ancient Egypt's spellbinding mummy portraits

While ancient Egyptian mummy portraits have long been objects of curiosity, only a minimal amount of scholarship exists about them. Many questions have lingered since they were uncovered by archeologists around the Egyptian city of Fayum in the late 1800s. Who painted them? What pigments and substrates did the artists use, and where were these… Read More Alexxa Gotthardt: Unraveling the mysteries of ancient Egypt's spellbinding mummy portraits

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Pardhis: positive, isolating in huts and broke

At this Adivasis settlement in Pune district, Covid positive persons are isolating in straw huts, with no electricity or water, and sparse rations. Masking, ventilation, oximeters and more have no meaning here    The Barde family are Bhil Pardhis, an Adivasi community, a sub-group of the nomadic Pardhi tribe. The Pardhis , along with various other tribes,… Read More Pardhis: positive, isolating in huts and broke

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