The US military’s greatest enemy worked in an institution saturated with military funding. How did it shape his thought? courtesy the Department of National Defence PCN4720 Chris Knight is a senior research associate in the department of anthropology at University College London. He is the author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (1991) and Decoding Chomsky: Science…

POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, DEC 27, 2023 8:19AM BY AZRA RAZA Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian In a study with chilling modern resonance, the history don contends that the age of reason was betrayed by the greed, corruption and barbarism of Britain’s ruling elite Stuart Jeffries Tue 12 Dec 2023 07.00 GMT Britain, thought Thomas Paine, needed to be destroyed.…

An ingenious and accessible discussion of a big question we’ll never answer – the reason for our existence A section of the Milky Way galaxy. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Why is there something rather than nothing? It’s meant to be the great unanswerable question. It’s certainly a poser. It would have been simpler…

Hundreds of reports and surveys, thousands of words were archived in the Library during the last 12 months, and each one supporting and validating issues of justice and rights. 2023 was a busy year. India experienced extreme weather events almost every day between January and September. In September, the Lok Sabha passed the Women’s Reservation Bill to bring more women…

26 December 1893 On this occasion we post certain relevant notes and writings in honour of the great leader of the Chinese liberation. S L Kandhan Today is the 130th birthday of Mao. He did the impossible — 🔹liberated China from imperialists with the help of poor farmers 🔹improved China so much that America sought…