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
By Sam Husseini / Substack I doubt it’s a coincidence that Malcolm — born 99 years ago this year and assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 — was a model for the martyred Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer. Indeed, at a talk in 2012, Alareer would recall his introduction to Malcolm: “I was teaching a course, and there was an amazing… Read More The Prophecies of Malcolm X: Zionism Is a New Kind of Colonialism
First posted July 17, 2013 Political Resolution of the Annual Convention of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan, (Movement Against Communalism) Delhi, March 1992 NB –This document is being placed in the public domain as a beginning to an archive. The SVA was an anti-communal civic campaign floated by concerned citizens in the post 1984 period. It carried on… Read More Political Resolution of the Annual Convention of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan, Delhi, March 1992
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
First posted February 11, 2016 NB: The paragraphs on ‘national religion’ (highlighted in red) in the first-person account below, are particularly significant for the argument that fascism is a form of right-wing atheism – especially given the contemporary emergence of the Nation as a substitute for God: DS The Tripartite Pact linking Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and… Read More Brian Victoria: The Zen of Hitler Jugend
First posted July 17, 2013 A Brief History of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan (1984-1993) NB – This history has been prepared by some activist participants, and may be liable to correction, revision and improvement over time. It is presented here after having been placed on Facebook about a year ago as a Note on my… Read More A Brief History of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan; Movement Against Communalism (1984-1993)
The discovery, made deep within the forest on the hillock known as Sitamma Loddi, has revealed several magnificent rock paintings on the wall of a massive sandstone west-facing rock shelter BY TELANGANA TODAY Hyderabad: A team from Kotha Telangana Charitra Brundham, led by photojournalist Duggempudi Ravinder Reddy and rock art expert Dr. Bandi Muralidhar Reddy, along with… Read More Mesolithic era art discovered in Telangana
NB: Allahabad was my father’s birthplace and hometown; and that of his two sisters. It was the place where they went to school and college. My father’s closest friendships dated back to his childhood and youth in Allahabad. My grandparent’s home was located on 9, Kamala Nehru Road (once City Road); and I have fond… Read More Allahabad that is Prayagraj: The Politics of Erasure
The episode reveals that when a strong executive decides it wants something, even something that is dangerous and unconstitutional, there is little resistance from within to stop it. Many will not know how diabolical the electoral bonds enterprise was, and it is for their benefit that this is being written. Aakar Patel India’s electoral bonds scheme… Read More Modi Government’s Tryst with Electoral Bonds Should Neither Be Forgotten Nor Forgiven
First posted August 29, 2013 History of the Middle Finger Well, now, here’s something I never knew before… Isn’t history more fun when you know something about it? Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it… Read More The history of the middle finger & importance of the horse’s ass
After the truth-shower 