By Lucas Leiroz | February 29, 2024 The disastrous actions of American intelligence in Ukraine have been a fact known by analysts since the beginning of the conflict. However, now the Americans themselves are admitting this. Being deceived by Russian pranksters, US mercenaries commented on the CIA’s tactical errors in Ukraine and how […] The… Read More CIA behind Ukrainian disaster
Journalists like Ravish Kumar battle hostile forces so that facts find a way to survive. With each new threat to our democracy, I cherish them all the more Zoe Williams In the summer, my friend Jess Search died after a short and vicious illness. She made documentaries, but people always eschewed words such as “producer” or “exec”… Read More In a dark world, a light is held by those who make it harder for the powerful to lie
There is not a single university left. The health system has basically collapsed. 1.9 million people have been forcibly displaced. The UN has said 100,000 people in Gaza have been killed, injured, or are missing. And Biden seems to think so little of the devastation that he seems to think it is appropriate to weigh in on a ceasefire while… Read More If Biden loses in November, don’t blame voters who are angry over Gaza
Jack Guy, CNN Karl Marx once gifted a signed copy of “Das Kapital” to scientist Charles Darwin, but the book remained largely unread, providing an “amusing insight” into the dynamics between these two intellectuals, according to experts. In “Das Kapital,” economist and philosopher Marx explored how the capitalist system works and, he argued, its tendencies toward… Read More Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’ gift to Darwin
In his new book, ¨Journalists and Their Shadows,¨ Patrick Lawrence describes his experience over decades as an editor and foreign correspondent of watching the media rise and fall in its ability to serve as a force to hold power accountable. Lawrence writes about the shadows, or authentic selves, that most journalists currently sacrifice in order… Read More Patrick Lawrence: Corporate Media Is an Arm of Power; We Must Build an Alternative
A struggle within Judaism between universalism and tribalism can be traced much, much further back… This is the time of the author(s) of Second Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament… Second Isaiah teaches the universal existence of God, i.e., not just the God of the Jews but of the whole world. It… Read More The Battle for the Soul of Judaism: Tribalism, Amalek and Axial Age Universalism of Isaiah
Rabbi Shaul Magid on Israel’s descent into genocidal fanaticism Liberal Zionism, the notion that Israel’s existence can be compatible with liberal values, has run its course. As Israel’s genocide in Gaza continues despite the outcry of the world and the International Court of Justice, it is clear that any hopes of earlier generations to build… Read More The Death of Liberal Zionism
Bharat Bhushan The Punjab farmers’ agitation is growing, and the two organisations that were trying to upstage the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) are no longer in control. An agitation, perhaps scripted to end in a compromise, is unexpectedly rewriting itself. The Centre wanted to settle the issue of minimum support price (MSP) after having made a promise… Read More How the government lost the script on MSP to farmers
Historical significance of the battle over the SNP’s motion was Labour’s willingness to dog whistle about British Muslims, to insinuate that pro-Palestinian activist posed a violent threat to its MPs Mukul Kesavan Last week, there was a procedural wrangle in the House of Commons over a motion asking for a ceasefire in Gaza sponsored by… Read More Labour’s libel
Audit body found several other irregularities in govt’s accounts for FY22, including cess collections lying unused or misused, and expenditure being placed under opaque headings. SAMPURNA PANIGRAHI New Delhi: The Government of India understated its external debt by as much as Rs 2 lakh crore in fiscal 2021-2022 — running afoul of its own laws —… Read More Govt buried key information in footnotes, understated external debt by Rs 2 lakh crore, says Auditor General
