Records reveal: A detailed review and updation of the Bihar state electoral roll was completed by January 2025. The roll was found to be robust. Officials were updating the roll well into June. Suddenly, the Election Commission of India called it faulty and junked it, ordering an unprecedented exercise to verify voters from scratch. Chaos… Read More The Bihar Electoral Roll Investigation
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse… we are ignoring the collapse of the international system that has defined our lives for generations at our own collective peril Moustafa Bayoumi Sereen… Read More The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world
Running On Empty Lookin’ out at the road rushin’ under my wheelsLookin’ back at the years gone by like so many summer fieldsIn ’65 I was seventeen and runnin’ up 101I don’t know where I’m runnin’ now, I’m just runnin’ on runnin’ on empty(Runnin’ on) runnin’ blind(Runnin’ on) runnin’ into the sunBut I’m runnin’ behind… Read More Jackson Browne: Running On Empty (1977)
Kejriwal’s political choices make him an interesting retail politician; Mamdani’s choices have the potential of making his project a precedent for Democratic politics Mukul Kesavan As I watch from a great distance Zohran Mamdani’s extraordinary campaign for the mayoralty of New York, it is instructive to think about the similarities and differences between the electoral… Read More Two upstarts
Readers outside of India can donate here to support Mainstream Weeklyhttps://tinyurl.com/2rsy4ss6++++++ In this issue: == Looking back at 1975 Emergency == DOCUMENTS: BOOKS IMAGE & SOUND: Editor’s Picks Books of Note: * (Coverpage Artwork credits: Robert Delaunay, Rythmes, 1934) https://mainstreamweekly.net/article15907.html
Hell hath no fury like corporate power scorned, writes Norman Solomon of the general-election battle over the next mayor of New York City. By Norman Solomon; Common Dreams The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for mayor of… Read More The Billionaire Frenzy Over Zohran Mamdani
The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you Stuart Heritage The biggest, and possibly only, failure of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is that the circumstances of its broadcast threaten to overshadow its content. A brief recap: this… Read More Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
Penn theoretical physicists collaborate on work that tests the fallibility of a framework that seeks to unite physics across the universe Nathi Magubane In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don’t quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known fundamental particles and three forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear… Read More Can data from the Large Hadron Collider snap string theory?
Mapping the hidden structure of an unaccountable organisation “in the case of secret organisation like the RSS which has no records of membership, no registers etc., securing of authentic information whether a person is an active member or not is a very difficult task.” (Selected Correspondence of Sardar Patel; edited by Durga Das; vol 6, p… Read More The RSS Does Not Exist – on paper
NB: Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets: Das Kapital, Vol 1. Clearly, mass murder is profitable. All these gangsters need to be held to account. They’re ruling the world, but the rest of us are still alive. DS Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, releases report accusing more than 45 entities… Read More From economy of occupation to economy of genocide: UN Report on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (unedited version)
After the truth-shower 