the faster these sites multiply, the more planet-heating carbon emissions for the rest of us. Pilita Clark It is just over 40 years since a US political journalist wrote something about scandals that should have been mandatory reading in school classrooms from then on. “The scandal isn’t what’s illegal, the scandal is what’s legal,” wrote… Read More The great AI data centre cover-up
Tim Barker, Dylan Saba Martin Luther King once called the United States government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” That formulation may be controversial, but no one denies that the US is by far the world’s biggest arms dealer, with a 42 percent share of the global arms export market. Since the Cold War, Congress… Read More Selling American Bombs
A news report in The Indian Express has corroborated the systemic nature of this organised theft, citing sources who revealed that the matter only became public due to infighting between two trust members over recruitment and the stolen funds.The Wire staff New Delhi: The massive theft of public donations from the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was… Read More Theft in Ram Temple First Detected and Reported in 2021, Trust Removed the Whistleblower Instead
A look at the world’s largest military industries Anna Stavrianakis In 1934, a US Senate Committee chaired by the Republican Gerald Nye began eighteen months of hearings on the domestic arms industry, investigating the enormous profits it had generated from World War I, amid speculation that the “merchants of death” might soon drag America into… Read More Arms Markets
Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem, Lorenzo Tondo and Sufian Taha One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors is almost unrecognisable because of severe injuries inflicted in Israeli detention, his lawyer has said, and faces “tangible danger to his life” after being held for… Read More Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says
Historic Athens squat community saved from redevelopment after hunger strikes and popular campaign.. Throughout the last 140 days, mass protests have happened across Greece in support of the community, as well as solidarity demonstrations internacionally The Prosfygika squatted community in Athens has declared victory in its struggle against redevelopment, publishing a statement on titled “The… Read More Victory- Prosfygika Community saved by mass Action + Hunger Strikes
The liberation of the American peoples cannot be achieved without the shedding of imperial weight, writes the Pulitzer prize-winning author in this somber essay marking the semiquincentennial VIET THANH NGUYEN The word I think of to describe the United States on its 250th anniversary is cruelty. There are other words, of course, that could describe… Read More ‘250 Years of Cruelty’ – Two essays on the ‘American Empire’ and How to Save the U.S.
Javed Akhtar was handed the topic of the Urdu script problem. He opened by saying there is no problem with the script at all. In this Jashn-e-Rekhta session, Javed Akhtar sits with journalist Pervaiz Alam, former BBC Hindi broadcaster, for a sharp conversation on the Rasm-ul-Khat debate. His central point is simple. Script and language… Read More Javed Akhtar & Pervaiz Alam on the Urdu Script Debate (June 28, 2026)
Mapping the world’s largest military-industrial complexes, their relationships to one another, and their overlapping structures of corporate ownership suggests that their expansion is, in the final estimation, subtended by the violent functions of statecraft itself ANNA STAVRIANAKIS In 1934, a US Senate Committee chaired by the Republican Gerald Nye began eighteen months of hearings on… Read More Arms Markets across the World
A constitutional problem arises when religious authorities effectively dictate what laws to enact and in formulating State policy Bharat Bhushan On June 15, when the Akal Takht ordered all Sikh legislators across party lines and Punjab’s Sikh Cabinet ministers to physically appear before it, 78 MLAs and nine ministers complied. They were reprimanded for passing the controversial anti-sacrilege… Read More Constitution’s silent retreat as Punjab’s lawmakers genuflect before Akal Takht
After the truth-shower 