Are we in that moment, in the belly of a bubble that has burst and taken ‘liberal democracy’ along, kicking and screaming, or perhaps not? Are we living the Hobbesian description? One of the ennobling gifts of literature is the light it shines on our essential condition beyond the frontiers of time or context or… Read More Sankarshan Thakur: Bubble democracy
NB: Actually the political hoodlums are bigger jokers than Kunal Kamra. Now they have secured a much wider audience for his jokes. Most of their muscle lies between their ears. Kunal Kamra Comedy Special By Rhea Mogul and Esha Mitra, CNN A prominent Indian comedian is standing by his right to make jokes after an… Read More A comedian told a joke about a politician. Now he’s under police investigation
Jonathan Steele For a man who once told his friend Beatrice Webb that he “disliked the profession of diplomacy”, Ivan Maisky was an unusually brilliant practitioner of the art of being an ambassador. Spending 11 years as Stalin’s representative in London, between 1932 and 1943, Maisky not only had his hands full in trying to… Read More The Maisky Diaries review – Britain’s high and mighty in conversation with Stalin’s man
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky… Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit. Jasmine Mooney There was no explanation, no warning. One minute,… Read More I’m the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
1/ He went to bed, turned on the BBC World News and switched it off again. Half-truths. Quarter-truths. What the world really knows about itself, it doesn’t dare say. John le Carre, Our Kind of Traitor; 2011, p 241 2/ We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with… Read More Reflections on ideology, morality and conscience
In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. In this post, we share with you links to films you can view and share to get our message out to the world A collection of documentaries published by Al Jazeera Documentary:… Read More A collection of documentaries on Palestine
Mimicking the motion of combing locks of hair with a brush, Sama Tubail stares at her reflection in a mirror and begins to cry. “I’m just so sad there isn’t a single strand of hair to comb with my brush,” Sama told CNN with her head in her hands. “I hold the mirror because I… Read More ‘Mama, I’m tired – I want to die:’ Israel’s strikes leave a generation of Palestinian children traumatized / Israeli airstrikes kill over 400 in Gaza / Imagine if all those who are silent about the terrible evil being committed in Gaza spoke up
By Ben Norton / Geopolitical Economy Report The United States is by far the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of all weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred 7.3 times more weapons than China, and 5.5 times more than Russia. In fact, Russia’s global arms exports declined by 64% from 2020… Read More USA is #1 Arms Dealer, Exporting 43% of World’s Weapons: 7 Times More Than China, 5 times more than Russia
The sophists taught, rather publicly, the view that the summit of happiness is to combine the appearance of justice with actual injustice: Gregory McBrayer; in Brill’s Companion to Leo Strauss. (Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal Is Former Israeli Spy) Mahmoud Khalil, 30–year-old holder of a green card permitting him permanently to live and… Read More Patrick Lawrence: Season of the Sophists
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