Tag: corruption

Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power

NB: An incisive commentary by Professor Mehta. “First, though there is partisan bickering, there is still a kind of attempt to exceptionalise the behaviour of this ruling class… a bounded zone in which elite actors could suspend norms without contaminating the moral order of the centre. Second, there is a pathology of modern political life,… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power

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The Unmaking of Ladakh: RSS, Corporate Power, and the War on India’s Plural Soul

Since 2014, this has been the RSS–BJP’s consistent strategy: criminalize dissent, discredit activists, and rewrite constitutional morality. They know that a large-scale civil war is impossible in a subcontinent as vast and diverse as India. What they fear are small, localized movements, like Ladakh’s, that cannot be militarily conquered, but only silenced with force. The assault… Read More The Unmaking of Ladakh: RSS, Corporate Power, and the War on India’s Plural Soul

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Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East

NB: More self-serving bufoonery by a corrupt war criminal. Brittania rules – if not the waves, the graveyard of murdered Palestinians. Blair and Trump make a good circus. They and their chums among the Arab despots are the vultures of our time, circling scenes of human devastation caused by their ally Israel; and looking out… Read More Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East

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A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy

The French presidential hopeful used clemency for the perpetrators of the UTA 772 bombing to secure campaign funding from Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi Diane de Vignemont The wreckage of the plane lay scattered across the ocher sand of Niger’s Tenere desert — twisted aluminum, scorched luggage, a lone shoe. There were no survivors. French investigators… Read More A Plane Crashed in the Desert. Thirty-Five Years Later, It Would Help Take Down Nicolas Sarkozy

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Himalayan Uprising

Shubhanga Pandey Friday 3 October 2025 When thousands of Nepalis in their teens and twenties descended on Kathmandu’s government district on 8 September, it was, for most, their first political experience. The immediate trigger for the protests, which had been gathering steam for several days, was a government ban on more than two dozen social-media… Read More Himalayan Uprising

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1.88 lakh double voters detected in ECI’s Foolproof List of 39 Bihar constituencies

http://www.reporters-collective.in Nitin Sethi CLICK HERE TO DONATE Hello,  We promised that we will be relentless in our pursuit of seeking accountability from the Election Commission of India (ECI) regarding its electoral roll purification exercise, “Special Intensive Revision”. Our latest investigation reveals 1.88 lakh cases in just39 assembly constituencies where people with the exact same name and… Read More 1.88 lakh double voters detected in ECI’s Foolproof List of 39 Bihar constituencies

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Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it’s coming out

By  HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday. “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” is scheduled for release Oct. 21, the publisher confirmed to The Associated Press. Giuffre,… Read More Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it’s coming out

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