“This is not about security,” said the head of Gaza’s fishers’ union. “It’s economic, social, and psychological warfare, a weapon of slow, deliberate suffocation.” By Brett Wilkins – Common Dreams Israel has warned Gazans to stay out of the Mediterranean Sea or risk getting killed under wartime restrictions that critics say serve no security purpose and… Read More Israel Bans Gazans From Entering Sea Under Pain of Death
Joe Conason Years after his apparent suicide in a Manhattan federal lockup, the notorious sex offender and financial manipulator Jeffrey Epstein has returned from the dead to haunt Donald Trump and instigate a massive rupture in Trump’s government and MAGA movement. Having long encouraged the proliferation of conspiracy theories on the right — from the racist birther… Read More There’s far more to Trump and Epstein’s relationship: Trump biographer
बिहार में मेरे खिलाफ FIR ? ‘SIR’ की रिपोर्टिंग का नतीजा ? || Ajit Anjum – बिहार में चुनाव आयोग के दावों का फैक्ट चेक करने की वजह से मेरे ख़िलाफ़ बेगूसराय में हुई FIR ? क्या ‘SIR’ के दौरान मिली कमियों को उजागर करना गुनाह है ? ‘SIR’ की रिपोर्टिंग से बौखलाए प्रशासन की… Read More चुनाव आयोग को मेरी चुनौती, मेरी रिपोर्ट को गलत साबित करके दिखाए ? Ajit Anjum / The Dangerous Farce of the ongoing SIR in Bihar and the Price of Exposing it
Simon & Garfunkel – America “Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes togetherI’ve got some real estate here in my bag”So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner piesAnd walked off to look for America “Kathy”, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh“Michigan seems like a dream to me now”It… Read More America
Prem Shankar Jha The following are excerpts from The Dismantling of India’s Democracy: 1947 to 2025 by Prem Shankar Jha; reproduced with permission from the publisher, Speaking Tiger. Over the decade since Narendra Modi has been the prime minister of India, at the head of a BJP government supported by a few local allies in the states… Read More Narendra Modi’s Step by Step Journey Towards Creating Fascism in India
Gideon Levy Pablo Picasso painted his famous picture in response to the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937. We now have a modern filmed version from Gaza. This report by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, July 13, 2025 // The people of Guernica, which was bombed by fascists and Nazis during… Read More Gaza’s Guernica / Guernica stands in solidarity with Gaza (2024)
In the dream of the man that dreamed, the dreamed one awoke by Jorge Luis Borges NO ONE saw him disembark in the unanimous night, no one saw the bamboo canoe sinking into the sacred mud, but within a few days no one was unaware that the silent man came from the South and that… Read More THE CIRCULAR RUINS (1940)
July 11, 2025 – Sidharth Bhatia Source: The India Cable As tens of thousands continued their pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath and days ahead of Jammu and Kashmir’s Martyr’s Day, moderate Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was stopped from delivering his weekly sermon at Srinagar’s Jamia Masjid and put under house arrest by authorities on Friday.… Read More Snapshot of the day: The Wire
While the BJP has defended the SIR publicly, there is anxiety within. Long-term voters of the party are upset at being asked to prove their citizenship. Bharat Bhushan The special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar may turn out to be an ill-conceived and ill-timed exercise. It could also prove to be counterproductive for… Read More BJP could pay a heavy price for electoral roll revision in Bihar
This impeccably sourced account of the secretive agency during a period of global turmoil deserves a Pulitzer John Simpson In 1976 when we were both based in Brussels, my BBC mentor, the great Charles Wheeler, came back to the office from a grand US embassy party one evening and remarked: “The cleverest and most entertaining… Read More The Mission by Tim Weiner: Unmasking the CIA
After the truth-shower 