As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away John Burn-Murdoch In years to come, we may well look back on September 2025 as the point at which social media jumped the shark and began rapidly accelerating its transition from the place to be seen (through a flattering Instagram filter), to a gaudy… Read More Have we passed peak social media?
By Alfred McCoy / TomDispatch In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth, [and] became convinced… Read More A Dying American Empire, ‘Rotten to the Heart?’
NB: I respect this writer and this film maker for speaking the truth as far as their resources allow. The term community of crime is something terrifying because it reflects the truth about the fragility of human consience; and the power that ideologies possess to pervert the conscience into its opposite; to literally create communities… Read More Two years after the massacre, I look back in disbelief. I, too, missed the October 8 surprise / ‘If 1948 was a war of Independence, the current war could be the one that ends Israel’
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
Itamar Katzir From his home in New York City, Peter Beinart watched in amazement as hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets during the first “day of disruption” in August. Peter Beinart – “Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning” | The Daily Show The 54-year-old Jewish American journalist and commentator… Read More Peter Beinart: ‘What Israel Is Doing in the Name of the Jewish People Is a Desecration’
The RSS’ intellectual stagnation and myth-based narratives risk alienating it from India’s knowledge-driven society Bharat Bhushan One hundred years ago, on Vijayadashami Day, September 27, 1925, the men who gathered at the residence of Keshav Baliram Hedgewar in Nagpur could have hardly imagined how powerful the organisation they were founding would become. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a… Read More RSS’ success also has seeds of destruction
They do not hide their vision for America. They plan to make the legal system subservient to dogma. They hate the “secular humanist” society based on science and reason. They dream of making the Ten Commandments the basis of the legal system… Power in the age of Trump is based on blind personal loyalty… Lies… Read More Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on America
NB: Nothing illuminates the meaning of nihilism better than Zionisms ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people. The word annihilation derives from nihil: absolute nothingness. So does the term nihilism. In both domestic politics and international relations, the imperial project means precisely this: absolute control or absolute destruction. To understand imperialism we need only take… Read More Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here
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NB: In India, let us be warned: past experience has shown how a section of the establishment is always ready to disrupt popular democracy by stoking up communal conflict. “only institutions can guarantee that the hopes of a new generation won’t be let down again.” No Deepanshu, institutions can be perverted by the dishonesty and… Read More Gen-Z’s challenge to elite dominance in South Asia
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