NB: Over the past two decades I have written many commementaries on Indian Maoism, of which this one carries an inverted resonance with the article below. ‘Inverted’ because had the Naxalite movement organised a non-violent mass campaign in defence of the labouring poor, it would have achieved historic successes. It is a tragedy that the… Read More Dreams of a Maoist India
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem Fahd Abu Haikal shows a photo of his seven-month- old son, Sam, who was killed on Friday when Israeli soldiers fired at their car. Photograph: Mahmoud Illean/AP Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in… Read More Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank
NB: Putin is a KGB man turned Russian imperialist, a gangster and war criminal. The Russian people have had enough of war. The Russian Revolution of March 8, 1917 was a rebellion against war and for democracy. The Bolsheviks confiscated it, leading to a disastrous cycle of civil war and partisan tyranny. Its time to… Read More Is Russia’s war economy starting to crack?
Increasingly isolated president is determined to press on with Ukraine war, say well-placed sources, despite ailing economy Pjotr Sauer and Shaun Walker Vladimir Putin pulled up to a hotel in central Moscow earlier in May in a Russian-made SUV, dressed casually in jeans and a light jacket. Carrying a bouquet of flowers, he walked unhurriedly into the… Read More ‘There is profound disappointment in him’: mood in Russia turns against Putin / Russia hits Kyiv with hypersonic ballistic missile in ‘deranged’ attack
Dr. Malik’s lecture asks one of the most important questions facing the healing professions today: What happens when institutions built to recognize psychological harm learn to look away from the largest concentration of psychological injury on earth? Doctors Against Genocide invites you to join an urgent webinar This Sunday, MAY 24th, 2026 at 12PM ET This week’s webinar… Read More The Silenced Lecture & Music Against Genocide
Surviving torture and brutality inside Israel’s prisons By Nasser Abu Srour 1. I woke to the breaking news on 7 October 2023. The television in our cell showed footage of the Hamas attacks and the fighting around Gaza. We watched for an hour before the cable was cut and the screen turned blue. Those were… Read More ‘Why don’t you just die?’
Ian Buruma on Berlin during World War II Bryn Stole n December 1944, amid the bombs and wartime wreckage of Berlin, acclaimed conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler led the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms and Beethoven in a frigid variety theater—since Royal Air Force bombing raids had already wrecked most of the city’s grand concert… Read More Dancing on a Volcano
Nothing can stop Germany’s moral panic over antisemitism It would be hard to surpass the absurd spectacle of a Jewish philosopher being blocked from speaking at a German Holocaust memorial because he intended to say that the lessons of “never again” should be applied universally. And yet such perverse distortions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’ have… Read More Bad memories
Families turn to dirty fuels such as firewood, bringing fears over air pollution and fragility of energy transition…“When prices rise, it’s the poorest who are forced to switch back to biomass,” said Harjeet Singh, the director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation. “Biomass burning is a major source of fine particulate pollution. In dense urban areas,… Read More Public health at risk across Asia as price of gas for cooking soars
Source: Adam Tooze, Chartbook Source: Krishn Kaushik and Chris Kay in Mumbai and William Sandlund in Hong Kong from FT +++++++++++++++
After the truth-shower 