Israel’s Genocide Is Big Business – and the Face of the Future

Israel effectively serves as the world’s largest business incubator – not just by nurturing start-up companies. Rather, it offers global corporations the chance to test and refine new weapons, data collection and automation processes in the occupied territories. These developments are associated with mass oppression, control, surveillance, incarceration, ethnic cleansing – and now genocide. In… Read More Israel’s Genocide Is Big Business – and the Face of the Future

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Hegel Dust

A little-known philosopher’s deep influence over the avant-garde, neoconservatives, and the European Union…. ‘His work on behalf of a resistance group in Puy-en-Velay got him arrested by the Gestapo; anticipating his future talents as a negotiator, he managed to talk his way out of the firing squad.’ The Life and Thought of Alexandre Kojève BY Marco… Read More Hegel Dust

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Scapegoating the Algorithm

America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media. (NB: It’s not just an American problem) Dan Williams Many people sense that the United States is undergoing an epistemic crisis, a breakdown in the country’s collective capacity to agree on basic facts, distinguish truth from falsehood, and adhere to norms of rational debate.  “The Yellow Press,” by… Read More Scapegoating the Algorithm

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Late Victorian Holocausts: the famines that fed the empire

First posted June 02, 2016 Mike Davis: Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World (2002) Reviewed by: Sukhdev Sandhu Recording the past can be a tricky business for historians. Prophesying the future is even more hazardous. In 1901, shortly before the death of Queen Victoria, the radical writer William Digby looked… Read More Late Victorian Holocausts: the famines that fed the empire

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Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza

NB: The IDF is the reincarnation of the Waffen SS; Heinrich Himmler’s ‘Death’s Head’ units manning the extemination camps of WW2. The self-defined ‘most moral army in the world’ is the most depraved. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame (Revelation 16:15). May God have… Read More Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza

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UK condemns Israel for depriving Palestinians of ‘human dignity’

The UK has joined 27 other countries in condemning Israel for depriving Palestinians of “human dignity” as they issued a call for an immediate end to the war in Gaza. David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary, joined ministers from Australia, Canada and France in urging the Israeli government to lift restrictions on the flow of aid, arguing… Read More UK condemns Israel for depriving Palestinians of ‘human dignity’

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Remembering Guru Dutt in his birth centenary year: A resurrected genius

Visionary filmmaker of eight Hindi movies, Guru Dutt (1925 – 1964) whose socially conscious work explored various human experiences left a cultural impact that continues to inspire generations. Jinhen Naaz Hai Hind Par – Guru Dutt, Mohammed Rafi, Pyaasa Song By C. Uday Bhasker / Sapan News As film aficionados around Southasia and the diaspora remember… Read More Remembering Guru Dutt in his birth centenary year: A resurrected genius

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Sadegh Hedayat on Religion, Power, and Manufactured Ignorance

Siyavash Shahabi The struggle against religious superstition and the effort to sever the bond between religion and power have deep roots in Iran. Contrary to the widespread belief that secularism is purely a Western or modern phenomenon, Iranian history is rich with Enlightenment-driven efforts that have criticized religion not as a matter of faith, but… Read More Sadegh Hedayat on Religion, Power, and Manufactured Ignorance

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When you get old, you become young again: Fauja Singh, the marathon man (1911-2025)

After a life shaped by grief and resilience, Singh began running at 89 and became an icon of endurance and joy: “an icon of humanity and a powerhouse of positivity”. He died on July 14, at the age of 114 after being hit by a car in Beas Pind. Waheguru, Waheguru, Waheguru Esther Addley The… Read More When you get old, you become young again: Fauja Singh, the marathon man (1911-2025)

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