The record of the Narendra Modi government has been to brazen out criticism and even reward those governors who go beyond their job description Bharat Bhushan The Supreme Court judgement in the case of Governor of Tamil Nadu R N Ravi will have an impact beyond the state in defining the role of governors. The desire of… Read More Governors who bring disrepute to the office must be shown the door
Mr. Musk does have a theory for the assumption of power. That theory is to seize power with the dead robotic hand of the past. It remains for the living to wrest free of that grip. (NB: As Karl Marx put it; capital is dead labour ruling over human life. Lets recall the slogan the… Read More The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk
Both Perestroika and Thatcherism, then, meant scaling back economic and social security to drive efficiency gains and shift labor and capital from declining to rising industries. If this similarity between East and West is unsettling to readers today, it is nonetheless one that, as Bartel’s archival work demonstrates, was recognized behind closed doors at the… Read More No Alternative?
One of the revelations of this young Trump term has been the embarrassing servility of America’s European allies. It has fallen to China by a kind of default to restore geopolitical equilibrium Mukul Kesavan The economically illiterate reader (like me) browsing the headlines about Donald Trump’s tariffs looks to borrow the opinions of his betters.… Read More In China’s debt
Levine describes the early concept of the internet as “an operating system for the American empire, an information system that could collect all this data and that could provide useful, meaningful information to the managers of the world.” Yasha Levine / The Chris Hedges Report The internet, from its inception, was created to be a… Read More The Secret Military History of the Internet
It was never about eliminating antisemitism. It was always about silencing Palestine By Patrick Lawrence / Consortium News Some people worth citing this week. They speak of different matters, but when we put all their apples and oranges into a basket we discover they belong together, their bright colors confronting us with a challenge: It is… Read More American Freefall
The last decade in India has been marred by the institutionalisation of arbitrary power. Raghu Kesavan Kunal Kamra is an unlikely hero. He stands slightly hunched over, mic loosely held in one hand, the other occasionally pressed into service to express disbelief but often stuffed into a trouser pocket. His most recent special, Naya Bharat, reprises the… Read More How the attacks on Kunal Kamra undermine the freedoms of all Indians
NB: The lecherous drunkard Hegseth recently said ‘Zionism & Americanism are the front lines of Western civilisation and freedom in our world today.‘ If that is so, both are doomed, and will take ‘western civilisation’ crashing down with them. Israel and the USA now stand forth as the greatest danger to humanity; led by pathological… Read More Top 5 Ways Netanyahu kept Hamas in Power
Dr Ramzy Baroud Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture the full picture. The idea that Israel is brutalizing Palestinians simply because the Arabs are too weak to challenge the Benjamin Netanyahu government—or any government—implies that, in theory, Arab regimes… Read More Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
Kenan Malik ‘Gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that goes into the finding and getting of it.” It’s a line spoken by Walter Huston in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a story about greed and moral corruption directed by his son, John Huston. That line was to have… Read More Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets
After the truth-shower 