NB: There was never any global vision; only a global projection of personal ambition. Performance art at its best. ‘When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later,… Read More Vishwaguru needs a new global vision
Disinformation spread to mainstream channels in what experts call deliberate ‘informational warfare’ Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent As missiles and drones crisscrossed the night skies above India and Pakistan earlier this month, another invisible war was taking place. Not long after the Indian government announced Operation Sindoor, the military offensive against Pakistan triggered by a militant attack in Kashmir that… Read More How social media lies fuelled a rush to war between India and Pakistan
we may very gently suggest that if Mahmudabad used his analytical mind to issue such an incredibly subtle dog whistle that we need three police officers to tell us where the whistle was and who the dogs were, then it was very clearly a really terrible dog whistle. You might as well close the case… Read More Tell me why; and how to read a sentence
Igbal Abilov was jailed in Azerbaijan over his Skype exchanges with Armenian academic Professor Garnik Asatrian. Trisha Sengupta Igbal Abilov, an Azerbaijani scholar and lecturer at Belarusian State University, was sentenced to 18 years in jail over his online communication with Armenian academic Professor Garnik Asatrian, reported the Armenian Report. The harsh verdict came after Abilov… Read More Azerbaijani man sentenced for ‘treason’ after speaking with Armenian historian, jailed for 18 years
Ashoka University academic’s arrest shows how rapidly universities, once spaces for debate and discussion, are pushed towards restraint and silences. Deepanshu Mohan Wilhelm von Humboldt, a great liberal reformer and a humanist, once defined the university as “nothing other than the spiritual life of those human beings who are moved by external leisure or internal pressures… Read More Criminalising thought?
Instruments of Empire Hugh Wilford, The CIA: An Imperial History: Basic Books: New York 2024 Reviewed by Ed McNally In the historiographical field of intelligence studies, ideological blinkers abound. The standard account in the American case is that the democratic mandate which brought the Central Intelligence Agency into being through the 1947 National Security Act… Read More The CIA: An Imperial History
The myth that news coverage turned Americans against the war persists. In fact, it was largely complicit in perpetuating the conflict Norman Solomon The last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on 30 April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about US media coverage of… Read More The US left Vietnam 50 years ago today. The media hasn’t learned its lesson
This long history of violence, skulduggery, and spying raises troubling questions about whether a corporation founded and staffed by dozens of individuals from such an organization can be trusted with billions of users’ private and personal data. By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The… Read More Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data
According to Apoorvanand Jha, a professor at DU, the university had informed him that his leave application could not be approved without consultation with the Union Ministry of Education. NEW DELHI: Delhi University (DU) professor Apoorvanand Jha said that the university administration has asked him to submit the text of his proposed lecture at an… Read More ‘Alarming’: DU asks professor to submit text of proposed lecture at US university for leave approval
Mr. Musk does have a theory for the assumption of power. That theory is to seize power with the dead robotic hand of the past. It remains for the living to wrest free of that grip. (NB: As Karl Marx put it; capital is dead labour ruling over human life. Lets recall the slogan the… Read More The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk
After the truth-shower 