http://www.reporters-collective.in One of India’s largest voter deletion exercises by Election Commission of India (ECI) could be unfolding in its capital. Delhi started with 1.45 crore voters. First, more than 47 lakh names were deleted from the draft electoral roll under the SIR. Now, another 31.6 lakh voters, whose names did make it to the draft… Read More Election Commission Declares 54% of Delhi Voters Deleted or Doubtful
‘The truth never dies, but is made to live as a beggar’: Yiddish proverb “The Gaza documentary has elicited a nationwide uproar. After years of repression, denial and lies, apathy and indifference, the pus has burst forth in a mighty stream. This is a healthy process, even if it includes ugly manifestations” – Gideon Levy… Read More Thanks to ‘NAZA’ Hysteria, Israel Is Finally Talking About Gaza
By externalising the blame for the war in Ukraine onto India and China without corresponding pressure on Trump to end at least the one war he can easily end — Iran — American democracy has dealt a blow to itself The Graham Bill, targeting India and China for oil purchases from Russia, is a grotesque… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: the Graham Bill is America confusing its power with virtue — yet again
“The Social Reckoning” and other movies reflect growing discontent with Silicon Valley founders. But such films may be at the mercy of the companies themselves. By Alissa Wilkinson It’s hard to remember this, but before “The Social Network” came out in 2010, there was plenty of snickering. Would anyone want to watch a movie about… Read More As Big Tech Takes Over Hollywood, the Picture Onscreen Gets Darker
College Is Coming Apart: successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense. The old names will persist, and the campus buildings will still stand. The coursework will continue whether humans or machines complete it (or assign it). The leaves will fall onto the quad in the autumn, and the caps will fly… Read More American higher education makes no sense
NB: The travesty of Indian justice continues unabated, with the mainstream media shamelessly reporting the issue as of Khalid were guilty, even though he has not been tried in court nor been convicted. To keep a trial suspended for six years, and refuse bail – this is horrible but to be expected now under the… Read More Umar Khalid documentary screening at IIIT-Hyderabad cancelled
A leading Israeli think tank issued a rare strategic alert on Tuesday warning that Jewish terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank threatens Israel’s security, international standing and functionality as a state. This is only the second strategic alert that the Institute for National Security Studies has ever issued. The first came in March 2023, seven months before the… Read More A rare warning about Jewish terrorism, and how Israel’s response to ‘NAZA’ drew more attention than the film did
NB: The rest of us should be delighted. DS By Joe Wilkins With Wall Street on pins and needles amidst a wide-ranging discussion of AI safety, we may well be living through one of the most consequential weeks for the future of AI in the United States. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re headed to an ascendant… Read More Economists Concerned the AI Bubble Is About to Blow
Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.” By Tamara Pearson This article was originally published by Truthout Atahualpa Sofía Enciso’s children don’t know what a normal river is, she says. Living by the Santiago River in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, which overflows with dense… Read More Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence
For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed & displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us all. Ahdaf Soueif Last week, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, put out an AI-generated video that showed a conveyor belt of overweight Palestinian prisoners – dreaming of food and education – entering one of his prisons;… Read More In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for elsewhere?
