Tag: human rights

At last, a Kardashian has spoken: those Balenciaga bears should never have worn bondage gear

“We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in our narrative.” Please just take a moment to note how – even in the face of a full-spectrum paedo panic – Balenciaga cannot bring itself to relinquish some pretentious wank about “our narrative”. “It was never our intent to include child… Read More At last, a Kardashian has spoken: those Balenciaga bears should never have worn bondage gear

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China protests: authorities call for crackdown on ‘hostile forces’

NB: The Chinese Communist Party considers protesting citizens to be ‘hostile forces’! The only hostile force in China today is your totalitarian tyranny comrades, and it looks like the Chinse people have had enough of it. And as some of their posters are asking: by foreign forces do you mean Marx and Engels? By the… Read More China protests: authorities call for crackdown on ‘hostile forces’

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The Guardian view on Modi’s India: the danger of exporting Hindu chauvinism

Editorial When the US state department recently told a court that the Saudi Arabian crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, should have immunity in a lawsuit over the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, it portrayed its argument as a legal and not moral position. By way of evidence, it pointed to a rogues’ gallery of foreign leaders… Read More The Guardian view on Modi’s India: the danger of exporting Hindu chauvinism

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Protests spread across China amid zero-COVID anger

William Yang “The Communist Party, step down. Xi Jinping, step down!” Those were the slogans chanted by hundreds of protesters in China’s commercial capital, Shanghai, on Saturday evening and Sunday morning, as they gathered to demand the Chinese government end the strict pandemic control measures that have been imposed on several cities across the world’s second-largest economy. The protest… Read More Protests spread across China amid zero-COVID anger

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सांसों में सिलिका- हर साल इस बीमारी से हो रही हजारों मजदूरों की मौत

हृदयेश जोशी #Silicosis कार्यस्थल पर होने वाली एक जानलेवा बीमारी है जिसे “मौत का कुंआं” भी कहा जाता है. सिलिका मिश्रित धूल फेफड़ों में जाने से मजदूर बीमार हो जाते हैं. भारत में हर साल हजारों मजदूर इस बीमारी के कारण दम तोड़ रहे हैं. देश में सिलिकोसिस पीड़ितों की सही संख्या का अंदाजा नहीं… Read More सांसों में सिलिका- हर साल इस बीमारी से हो रही हजारों मजदूरों की मौत

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Martin Luther King on Mahatma Gandhi: “My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence”, September 1958

First posted June 15, 2020 NB: Since the Black Lives Matter movement, some intellectuals have begun (yet again) their campaign to slander Gandhiji as a ‘racist’. An interview published in The Caravan in January 2019 reiterated this. Much can be said about the prejudices of various leaders, and I have appended some comments beneath that interview. Leaving India… Read More Martin Luther King on Mahatma Gandhi: “My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence”, September 1958

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