Millions of Evangelicals have “anointed” Trump as their modern day King Cyrus, despite his deeply UN-Christian lifestyle. Why? Because he promised them to end legal access to abortion in the US, which is all they care about as a fast-track toward Christian theocracy in the US… Six of the nine SCOTUS justices are devout, ideological Catholics,… Read More US Supreme Court is Driven by Christian Theocracy
Suranya Aiyar If Prashant Kishor is an agent of the Modi Regime, then we are looking at something akin to a medieval court drama of intrigue, back-stabbing and betrayal of sub-continental proportions. The question is not Prashant Kishor’s political beliefs, to which he is entitled, but of pretenses in presenting himself as an independent professional… Read More Will The Real Prashant Kishor Please Stand Up?
Thousands of students face severe consequences for protesting Gaza violence. Alan Macleod investigates the powerful financial and ideological ties to Israel driving the harsh responses from America’s top universities. By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has swept… Read More How Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests
First posted January 24, 2017 The Captive Mind (1953) has been compared to the two most revealing and penetrating works on the same subject previously published – Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940) and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980. Read an interview with him in 2003, the year before he died. The… Read More The Captive Mind revisited
Narendra Modi’s communally provocative statements are important in spreading an anti-Muslim animus among the electorate, especially among Dalits whom the BJP fears might vote along with the minorities against the BJP Bharat Bhushan In his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a reporter “the day I do Hindu-Muslim, I will be unworthy of… Read More What is behind Modi’s campaign doublespeak?
The watchdog must reclaim its autonomy and backbone to safeguard democracy’s “soft guardrails”. VAISHNA ROY Newt Gingrich, the Republican politician from the US mostly credited with beginning the right-wing dominance of the House of Representatives, once told his partymen to stop using “Boy Scout words”. “You are fighting a war,” he said. “It is a… Read More The fall of the Election Commission
A few simple but deeply philosophical sentences by one of India’s most outspoken journalists. Ravish stands out, but there are many other courageous reporters, and we must be grateful to them all. Listen to his talk here, it was delivered yesterday. He uses the word talkhi to describe the atmosphere sought to be created and… Read More Ravish Kumar: आपके पास सत्ता है पर ताकत नहीं.. बहुतों को डराया जा सकता है.. उस डर का आप क्या करेंगे जिससे आप खुद डरे हुए हैं..
By Nectar Gan, CNN A Chinese citizen journalist who has been behind bars for four years over her reporting on the initial Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan is due to be released Monday after serving her sentence, according to supporters and a court verdict. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was one of the few independent Chinese journalists reporting in Wuhan… Read More Chinese journalist imprisoned for her Covid reporting due to be released after four years. But will she be free?
What the two laws have in common is desire to silence Israel-Gaza war critics Seth Stern The White House rightly said it was “concerning” when Israel’s parliament laid the groundwork to shut down Al Jazeera within its borders in April. On Sunday, Israel made its move. The Foreign Press Association called it a “dark day for democracy”. If the… Read More Israel is banning Al Jazeera, America is banning TikTok. We know why
Bharat Bhushan The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)‘s preoccupation with grander victories in every election seems to be feeding the worst standards of democratic conduct. Does pressure on Opposition candidates to stand down suggest narcissism, or does it reflect an element of nervousness? Take the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat. It has been a pocket borough… Read More Hunt for grand victories and impact on democratic culture
After the truth-shower 