Posted on Thursday, Sep 19, 2024 7:00AM by Rebecca Baumgartner by Rebecca Baumgartner Carpets…chairs…shoes…bricks…crockery…anything you like to mention – they’re all made by machinery now. The quality may be inferior, but that doesn’t matter. It’s the cost of production that counts. And stories – well – they’re just another product, like carpets and chairs, and no one cares…

Defend Democracy PressThe Newsletter of The Delphi Initiative Website Excerpts: League of Arab States strongly condemns Israeli attack on LebanonSep. 18, 2024 League of Arab States Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has strongly condemned the pager blast attack in Lebanon, which the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon announced was carried out by “Israel”. He also issued a warning about the potential for increased…

Recent indications suggest that NATO may permit Ukraine to use Western-provided missiles to strike Russian territory. This would mark a serious escalation of the conflict. 19 September 2024 Niniko Morbedadze (Georgia), The Orange Clouds on the Boundary, 2018. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 13 September, at a conclave in…

Filed: India  Nonviolence  Repression The Political Writings of Bhagat Singhby Chaman Lal and Michael D. Yates$26.00 / 978-1-68590-066-3 / 200 pages By Michael Yates, for Counterpunch Israel is waging a genocidal war against the people of Gaza, murdering in excess of 40,000 persons, with more victims almost certainly dead under the rubble left by relentless bombing. The British medical journal The Lancet suggest that if…

Sanjaya Baru 16/Sep/2024 5 min read Two things have been said about Sita in all the obituaries of the past few days. That he was a political pragmatist and that he was a jolly fellow, always smiling and friendly. Both are attributes of a true Hyderabadi. When he left Hyderabad for New Delhi in 1969,…