Tag: Orwellian reminders

What happens when leaders disregard the truth? Putin and Trump are about to find out

Peter Pomerantsev The powerful were meant to be afraid of the truth. Journalists were meant to “hold truth to power”. Evidence was meant to destroy wrongdoers as sunlight does a vampire. Find the evidence, the logic went, and the powerful could be shamed and brought to justice. Historically, the powerful would try to censor and… Read More What happens when leaders disregard the truth? Putin and Trump are about to find out

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Rahul Gandhi Case: Gujarat से जुड़े बड़ी प्लानिंग के तार, सच आएगा सामने – Justice Loya

Some genuine investigative journalism, congratulations to this reporter Rahul Gandhi Case : Gujarat से जुड़े बड़ी प्लानिंग के तार, सच आएगा सामने | Justice Loya ************************* Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths Death of Judge Loya: A critical examination of the ECG and post-mortem demonstrates the failings of the SC verdict A Family Breaks Its… Read More Rahul Gandhi Case: Gujarat से जुड़े बड़ी प्लानिंग के तार, सच आएगा सामने – Justice Loya

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Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths

First posted October 22, 2019 NB: This report on the deaths of Judge Loya and his two friends appeared in 2018. Our ‘free and unfettered’ media continues to ignore this matter; as it has ignored the suicide of an ex Chief Minister who alleged high-level corruption in the judiciary; and has also failed to pursue the manner in which criminal cases… Read More Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya’s Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths

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How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state

Xu Zhiyong’s dream is for China to become a democratic country that is “beautiful, free, fair and happy.” It is a simple wish, yet in the eyes of the authorities, his vision is dangerous and subversive. The 50-year-old human rights lawyer and champion of social equality was sentenced to 14 years in jail earlier this month, along with fellow… Read More How one man went from China’s Communist party golden child to enemy of the state

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Maiming India

The regime’s mimicry of Pakistan in rewriting India’s history Mukul Kesavan The decision to allegedly unburden schoolchildren by deleting the Mughal era from their history curriculum has provoked amusing memes: images of the Taj Mahal complete with captions about its mysterious origins and jokes about gallant medieval Rajput rulers routed by invisible armies. These are… Read More Maiming India

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Corruption, Kashmir & Adani: J&K’s Last Governor Satya Pal Malik’s Interview With Karan Thapar

The Pulwama tragedy, Malik says was used by the ‘politicians’ for electoral gains Swati Shikha NB: This interview with Satya Pal Malik is revelatory, and has received over 1.6 million views in 24 hours. Satya Pal Malik is one of the few BJP affiliated politicians who has not indulged in the vicious communal rhetoric of… Read More Corruption, Kashmir & Adani: J&K’s Last Governor Satya Pal Malik’s Interview With Karan Thapar

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Our Men Didn’t Die So Someone Could Spread Communal Hatred: CRPF

First posted February 21, 2019 NB: The CRPF officers and jawans deserve our thanks for defending the truth in their hour of grief; and exposing the fraud being perpetrated on the country by the fake news brigade. The measures they have taken to combat communal propaganda is in marked contrast to the thuggish behaviour of the… Read More Our Men Didn’t Die So Someone Could Spread Communal Hatred: CRPF

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Maulana Azad, freedom fighter and India’s first Education Minister removed from NCERT textbook

Authors of the revised Class 11 political science textbook have also deleted the fact that Jammu and Kashmir had acceded to India on the basis of a promise that the State would remain autonomous. MAITRI PORECHA He was a freedom fighter and India’s first Education Minister, but any mention of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad has… Read More Maulana Azad, freedom fighter and India’s first Education Minister removed from NCERT textbook

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Avay Shukla: ‘A rose by any other name..’ really?

William Shakespeare (aka William Sexpeare in Waste Bengal) had got most things right, especially when it came to portraying the seven deadly sins, as per their revised version in India’s Amritkaal. Whether it was “honour killing” in Othello or “love jihad” (by Romeo, naturally, trying to entice a Capulet to become a Montague) in Romeo… Read More Avay Shukla: ‘A rose by any other name..’ really?

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A culture of truth denial is wilting US democracy and Britain is following fast

The Rush Limbaugh Show, the ultra-rightwing talkshow platform, was syndicated as the scourge of the liberal elite – anti-immigrant, anti-tax, anti-feminist, anti-LGBT, anti climate change and later denying Covid vaccines – and always rejecting the evidence that smoking caused cancer. No need any longer for countervailing views. A lifelong smoker, Limbaugh died in 2021 of the very… Read More A culture of truth denial is wilting US democracy and Britain is following fast

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