Tag: thinking about fascism

Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past

Ambika Kamath and Melina Packer Science is in crisis. Funding infrastructures for both basic and applied research are being systematically decimated, while in places of great power, science’s influence on decision making is waning. Long-term and far-reaching studies are being shuttered, and thousands of scientists’ livelihoods are uncertain, to say nothing of the incalculable casualties resulting from the abrupt removal of… Read More Science could enable a fascist future. Especially if we don’t learn from the past

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Law Ministry Denied Giving Papers on Special Intensive Revision

Imagine, the same government that repeatedly demands citizens present papers and preserve records to prove their citizenship and right to vote claims to have no papers when citizens ask for them. http://www.reporters-collective.in Here is another instalment on the Election Commission of India’s special intensive revision scandal. Last week, we received a reply from the Ministry… Read More Law Ministry Denied Giving Papers on Special Intensive Revision

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“Write my name on my leg, Mama”

A Voice Against Oblivion: Zeina Azzam’s poem at Nakba commemoration ‘They’re really sweet, they don’t look Palestinian.’ GAZA casualties, live statistics (17,492 children killed so far) The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People convened a commemorative Panel Discussion “1948-2024: The Ongoing Palestinian Nakba” on 17 May 2024 in the… Read More “Write my name on my leg, Mama”

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In Gurugram’s ‘Holding Centres’, Men Say They Are Detained Just for Speaking Bengali

Amidst the ongoing crackdown on suspected foreign nationals from Bangladesh, hundreds of Bengali and Assamese migrants have been detained and kept in what the Gurugram police call “holding centres”.  Alishan Jafri and Shruti Sharma Gurugram: On July 19, Hafizur Sheikh (41) had finished his shift as a cleaner outside a liquor store in Gurugram when he was stopped… Read More In Gurugram’s ‘Holding Centres’, Men Say They Are Detained Just for Speaking Bengali

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As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys

the media still often presents what is happening as a response to 7 October 2023, rather than looking at the broader historical context. Israel weaponized food long before 7 October. In 2008, for example, Israeli authorities calculated the minimum caloric intake necessary for Palestinians to avoid malnutrition so they could limit the amount of food into Gaza… Read More As Gaza starves, Netanyahu jokes about McDonald’s with ‘manosphere’ podcasters Nelk Boys

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?

NB: This is what needs to be said repeatedly, because so many people have shut their eyes to the most brutal campaign of mass extermination since the American punishment of Vietnam, which left some 4 million dead over a decade. The rate of murder in Gaza would please the operators of the death camps run… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: If Gaza’s corpses can vanish from our conscience, what else are we becoming blind to?

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Over 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide between 2012 & 2023 / The violent erasure of land and environmental defenders 

Global Witness More than 2,100 environmental activists were killed worldwide between 2012 and 2023, with Latin America holding the highest percentage globally, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) said Tuesday. The new report by Global Witness said an estimated 196 land and environmental defenders were killed around the world in 2023 alone. The report found that… Read More Over 2,100 environmental activists killed worldwide between 2012 & 2023 / The violent erasure of land and environmental defenders 

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Israel’s Genocide Is Big Business – and the Face of the Future

Israel effectively serves as the world’s largest business incubator – not just by nurturing start-up companies. Rather, it offers global corporations the chance to test and refine new weapons, data collection and automation processes in the occupied territories. These developments are associated with mass oppression, control, surveillance, incarceration, ethnic cleansing – and now genocide. In… Read More Israel’s Genocide Is Big Business – and the Face of the Future

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Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza

NB: The IDF is the reincarnation of the Waffen SS; Heinrich Himmler’s ‘Death’s Head’ units manning the extemination camps of WW2. The self-defined ‘most moral army in the world’ is the most depraved. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame (Revelation 16:15). May God have… Read More Global outcry grows over Israel’s killing of starving civilians in Gaza

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