I have no idea who will win the US election. (This was written before the results began to arrive). But there are many of us who have had enough hypocrisy from the American establishment, whether led by Democrats or Republicans. We are now witnessing the decline of the US dominated post Cold War global order.… Read More The freedom bubble
During the last US election, it was possible to see Biden as the good guy because Trump had been so performatively wicked. It is impossible to give the Democrats the benefit of the doubt again. Not only did the Biden administration follow Trump’s lead in every substantive foreign policy matter.. but it also embraced Netanyahu’s… Read More A moral void
Dear Friends, I post links to select recent articles, discussions and interviews:
Bharat Bhushan Despite a formal confirmation to The Washington Post by Canada’s Deputy Foreign Minister David Morrison that Union Home Minister Amit Shah was the “top Indian official” involved in the plot to kill Canadian citizens, there has been no official reaction from India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The MEA’s silence is curious. Such undercover assignments are normally… Read More Singapore Snafu: Unwanted disclosures in public
“Today is not your first arrival here.” — Hongzhi Zhengjue, 1091-1157 CE Astrobiology is rewiring our understanding of the intimate connection between life and planets as they appear in the universe. By Adam Frank Across 15,000 generations, human beings have looked out at the sentinel stars and felt the pressing weight of myriad existential questions: Are… Read More The Coming Second Copernican Revolution
The only difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is this: Old money is supporting Harris while Trump has the backing of new czars such as Elon Musk Jey Sushil Thinking about America makes me ponder the first word of the country’s official name: “United”. Various American states that were not united at one point… Read More The Irony That Is American Democracy
Anti-immigration parties are pushing policies that are hostile or indifferent towards science. David Matthews A surge in far-right parties entering governments across Europe is raising concerns for science. The parties, whose focus is typically immigration, care little about research, say policy experts. In the Netherlands — where the Party for Freedom (PVV), led by the… Read More Far-right governments seek to cut billions of euros from research in Europe
Shobhit Mahajan Hindustan Times, October 29, 2024 A week before the prospective groom’s family were to visit my uncle’s house, the preparations had started. The outside and the drawing room were quickly whitewashed, the furniture cleaned and polished, the flower pots in the garden got a fresh coat of geru (red ochre powder) and the… Read More NAAC Lessons on How not to assess a Varsity.
Consumption of world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5C The high carbon emissions of the world’s richest 1% are worsening hunger, poverty and excess deaths, a report has found. Owing to luxury yachts, private jets and investments in polluting industries, the consumption of the world’s wealthiest people is also making… Read More Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam
NB: The USA is celebrating its democracy; whilst at the same time enabling ethnic cleansing – not by forced migration but by mass murder. ‘The Entire Population of North Gaza Is at Risk of Dying’: UN Relief Official. This is a horrifying spectacle that the world is watching helplessly. It signifies the total collapse of… Read More The West’s Support For Genocide Is Destroying The World As We Know It / 335,500 Gaza Dead Estimate: Voting For Kid-Killing Kamala Means Complicity in Genocide
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