Epstein and the politics of distraction

Scandal individualises corruption, creating a spectacle that redirects anger away from structural power. By Yoav Litvin After the beginning of Trump’s second term, the connections between capitalism, white supremacy and imperial domination became increasingly clear. These have been highlighted through ICE raids as modern-day slave patrols, global criminal operations such as the kidnapping of Venezuelan… Read More Epstein and the politics of distraction

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis

US president chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration… The attack on Iran is a clear violation of the UN charter, in any absence of any credible, imminent Iranian threat to the US. Julian Borger The first war of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace era has begun – an unprovoked attempt at regime… Read More Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis

शराब घोटाले में केजरीवाल-सिसोदिया बरी, कोई सबूत नहीं मिला, CBI की ही होगी जाँच / Judge says case entirely discredited and orders inquiry into the CBI

On personal liberty, the court underscored that pre-trial incarceration could not be treated lightly. “Liberty, once curtailed, cannot be meaningfully restored by a subsequent acquittal, nor can the passage of time compensate for the loss occasioned by unwarranted pre-trial detention,” the court said NB: Everyone interested in the horrifying assault on the Indian justice system… Read More शराब घोटाले में केजरीवाल-सिसोदिया बरी, कोई सबूत नहीं मिला, CBI की ही होगी जाँच / Judge says case entirely discredited and orders inquiry into the CBI

Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe him… When the Soviet Union collapsed, US elites convinced themselves they were militarily invincible and that their economic model marked the endpoint of human development. That hubris led directly to catastrophe in Iraq, Afghanistan and… Read More Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start

How India’s Election Commission’s algorithmic chaos hit crores of voters

The Reporter’s Collective The ECI used an untested software running on dubious algorithms and unreliable data from two decades ago to brand existing voters as suspicious. In just two of the 12 states we investigated we found 3.66 crore voters had been red flagged. That accounts for a quarter of the two states’ combined voting… Read More How India’s Election Commission’s algorithmic chaos hit crores of voters

South African activist Ela Gandhi asks world to condemn the US attack on Venezuela / Wall Street Goons Look To STEAL Venezuelan Oil

“Can the world stand by and allow such aggression to continue?” Southasia Peace (Sapan) and Sapan News BOSTON: Invoking her grandfather Mahatma Gandhi‘s words “I want world sympathy in this battle of right against might,” Ela Gandhi in South Africa has issued a statement on the U.S. attack on Venezuela, in her capacity as Chairperson Gandhi Development… Read More South African activist Ela Gandhi asks world to condemn the US attack on Venezuela / Wall Street Goons Look To STEAL Venezuelan Oil