Tag: current affairs – international

The Murdoch story is the endless pursuit of control, power and profit. Rupert’s resignation is unlikely to change that

Walter Marsh On 9 September 1953, a small page-two item in the Adelaide News announced: “Mr Rupert Murdoch, son of the late Sir Keith Murdoch, is to join the staff of News Ltd.” Seventy years later almost to the day, the news of his resignation as chairman of the global media empire that company became arrived to… Read More The Murdoch story is the endless pursuit of control, power and profit. Rupert’s resignation is unlikely to change that

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India and Canada must step back from the abyss

India will have to withdraw from the schizophrenia of publicly denying while privately celebrating a muscular security policy Bharat Bhushan Murder allegations by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threaten to erode India’s image. Attempts to profile India as a “rogue” nation will damage India’s ambitions as a world leader, so recently burnished by the G20… Read More India and Canada must step back from the abyss

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Nobel Peace Laureate: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’ (2021)

Carole Cadwalladr The last time a journalist won a Nobel prize was 1935. The journalist who won it – Carl von Ossietzky – had revealed how Hitler was secretly rearming Germany. “And he couldn’t pick it up because he was languishing in a Nazi concentration camp,” says Maria Ressa over a video call from Manila. A Novaya… Read More Nobel Peace Laureate: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’ (2021)

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‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech

We’re now in servitude to the fiefdoms of our new global masters, Lord Zuckerberg of Facelandia and Sir Musk of the rotten borough of X… Technofeudalism feels like an important new book. It’s a big-picture hypothesis rooted in a historical account of how capitalism came into being that describes what is happening in terms of an… Read More ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech

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‘Very messy’: India-Canada row over Sikh killing causes diplomatic shock waves

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi The sun was setting on a June evening as Hardeep Singh Nijjar walked across the car park of the gurdwara. Nijjar’s day job was as a plumber but this gurdwara, located in the city of Surrey, in Canada’s British Columbia province, was where he dedicated most of his energy. That day he… Read More ‘Very messy’: India-Canada row over Sikh killing causes diplomatic shock waves

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We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist

George Monbiot There are some things we rightly find intolerable, such as the possession of poorly trained, aggressive dogs. There are other things, whose impacts are many thousands of times worse, that we decide just to live with. What makes the difference? Visibility is one reason: a photo of a large dog with bared teeth… Read More We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist

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Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History

You might think that — after killing such a vast number of people in a war of aggression based on continuous deceptions — some humility and even penance would be in order… but no.. being the United States government means never having to say you’re sorry Norman Solomon hen Joe Biden flew out of Hanoi last week,… Read More Biden Is the Latest President To Tout the Vietnam War as Proud History

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If India ordered a murder in Canada, there must be consequences: The Economist

NB: The USA and UK are stuck in a hypocritical marsh when speaking of violent interventions in foreign countries. Iran and Chile come to mind, not to mention Vietnam, Argentina and Bangladesh. The brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the behest of Western ally Mohammad bin Salman, did not not prevent their arms… Read More If India ordered a murder in Canada, there must be consequences: The Economist

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France accused of attack on press freedom after journalist arrest

France has been accused of an unacceptable attack on press freedom after the arrest of an investigative journalist who reported on leaked documents that alleged French intelligence was used to target civilians in Egypt. Police arrived at the home of Ariane Lavrilleux at dawn on Tuesday and took her into custody after searching her property.… Read More France accused of attack on press freedom after journalist arrest

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