The Concrete Possibility of Total Nihilism: Günther Anders and the Atomic Bomb

In the atomic age, the traditional political distinction between “friends” and “enemies” utterly failed, not because we all became “friends” but because the very notion of “enemy” is now meaningless. The only real enemy threatening us is atomic annihilation; the only real totalitarianism is the atomic condition, which transforms the whole planet into a borderless… Read More The Concrete Possibility of Total Nihilism: Günther Anders and the Atomic Bomb

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Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Built on Sand: Why This Proposal Cannot Deliver Peace

Peace cannot be engineered on the basis of coercion. It requires justice, and justice is precisely what has been denied to Palestinians for generations – Rashid Khalidi In a region where peace has been promised and broken more times than history can count, optimism is a luxury few can afford. The latest proposal put forward… Read More Trump’s Gaza Plan Is Built on Sand: Why This Proposal Cannot Deliver Peace

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László Krasznahorkai, 2025 Nobel Laureate in Literature: “Human beings remain the same, dangerous to themselves”

László Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his compelling and visionary work that, amid apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition, stretching from Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and characterized by absurdity and grotesque excess.The writer recalls how Franz Kafka introduced… Read More László Krasznahorkai, 2025 Nobel Laureate in Literature: “Human beings remain the same, dangerous to themselves”

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Age of the ‘scam state’: how a multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia / Myanmar scam centres may hold 100,000 trafficked people

NB: The Myanmar military is responsible for this, and is complicit. And how should we describe Switzerland, the El Dorado of money laundering? Organised crime has many faces. Just look at America’s White House and Putin’s palaces. DS Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked people Like the narco-state,… Read More Age of the ‘scam state’: how a multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia / Myanmar scam centres may hold 100,000 trafficked people

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Georgina Pinto Lobo (Jean Simeon): August 8, 1924 – December 2, 2004

This photograph was taken around 2000, in my parents retirement home in Pune Mother with our dear family friend Gurdip Singh, on his farm in Kulwedhi, near Kunjpura around 1973 These happy photos of my parents were taken in the Doon School, around 1972 God made a wonderful mother / A mother who never grows… Read More Georgina Pinto Lobo (Jean Simeon): August 8, 1924 – December 2, 2004

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Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says / Israeli forces shoot Palestinians dead after surrender

United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month.The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war. “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion… Read More Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says / Israeli forces shoot Palestinians dead after surrender

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Scholar GN Devy asks whether India risks becoming an anti-knowledge nation

NB: Anyone with the faintest idea of what is happening to Indian education will understand the importance of this book by this esteemed and highly accomplished scholar. The policies of our rulers can be described as nothing less than assault on education. Government enthusiasts could ask themselves why every year, hundreds of thousands of Indian… Read More Scholar GN Devy asks whether India risks becoming an anti-knowledge nation

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