During the last US election, it was possible to see Biden as the good guy because Trump had been so performatively wicked. It is impossible to give the Democrats the benefit of the doubt again. Not only did the Biden administration follow Trump’s lead in every substantive foreign policy matter.. but it also embraced Netanyahu’s… Read More A moral void
Bharat Bhushan Despite a formal confirmation to The Washington Post by Canada’s Deputy Foreign Minister David Morrison that Union Home Minister Amit Shah was the “top Indian official” involved in the plot to kill Canadian citizens, there has been no official reaction from India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). The MEA’s silence is curious. Such undercover assignments are normally… Read More Singapore Snafu: Unwanted disclosures in public
The Big Picture: How Israel Won the West examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world. It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical stories of origin through centuries of persecution and the advent of Zionism, all the way to the creation of Israel… Read More How Israel Won the West: The Big Picture
By Erik English Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party has perpetuated human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region under the guise of anti-terrorism and anti-extremism—subjecting them to forced labor, mass detention, and land transfers. Now, a new report reveals that some Chinese pharmaceutical products made using forced labor in… Read More How modern slavery, in China and elsewhere, undermines the fight against existential threats
The world is changed by your example, not your opinions: Mother Teresa Avay Shukla These days Mr. D.Y. Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, is talking of, and worrying about, the legacy he will leave behind when he retires from the job next month. And well he might. He was elevated to this position at perhaps… Read More A LEGACY THAT IS BEST FORGOTTEN
By its actions, Canada seems to have definitively shut the door on back-channel communication on the Nijjar issue. Up till now, they were talking to Indian officials in a bid to improve the relationship between the two countries. That attempt is now over.. In August 2023, the Union Home Ministry promulgated a unique order under Section 268… Read More Fallout of a transborder assassination
The UK plans to hand some remote islands back to Mauritius, and relocate the Sri Lankan asylum seekers stuck there Three years ago, 89 Tamil asylum seekers left Sri Lanka via southern India to escape persecution. Their aim was to reach Canada in an unseaworthy boat, as others had attempted before them. They expected the… Read More Why is the UK sending Tamil refugees to Romania?
A new generation across the UK is demanding political representation. But this unstoppable force is meeting an immovable object, the Labour Party… The real politics happens outside parliament. We’ve already witnessed huge protests take shape against the massacre in Gaza, and the coming years could see mass movements and industrial unrest over cuts and living… Read More Forget Corbynism 2.0. Something bigger is happening on the British left
National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled expresses deep shock and profound anguish at the untimely death of Dr. G N Saibaba Despite his repeated requests for being released on bail or parole to get treatment and operated for gall bladder stones, it was denied, even while hardened criminals, murderers and rapists were granted… Read More Rahul Pandita: What I learned from G. N. Saibaba
History did not start on 7 October 2023. While that date may mark a tragedy for Israel, every single day for the last 76 years has marked some sort of catastrophe for Palestinians. My paternal grandparents originally lived in Haifa; in 1948, during the Nakba, they were among the 700,000 Palestinians forced to flee or expelled… Read More As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity
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