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Whilst Da’esh are constantly being compared to the Nazis, the real parallel – the West’s willingness to build up fascism in order to cripple Russia – is often forgotten. The recent debate in the...
View ArticleTaro Pharmaceutical Industries' (TARO) CEO, Kal Sundaram on Q2 2017 Results -...
Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE:TARO) Q2 2017 Earnings Conference Call November 9, 2016 8:30 am ET Executives Dilip Shanghvi - Chairman Kal Sundaram - Chief Executive Officer Mariano Balaguer...
View ArticleInternational system has failed Syria
Today the tourists come to view the magnificent ceramics. There is a special section devoted to the treasures of Mesopotamia. But the visitor will find no evidence of the moment which made the museum...
View ArticleAfter politics, Ed Balls is leading a merry dance
'All political careers end in failure." So declared the veteran British politician, Enoch Powell, whose own vaulting ambition finished in disappointment and recrimination back in the 1970s. His words...
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(Source: Hansa Trust plc) Chairman's Report to the Shareholders The purpose of the Strategic Report is to inform the members of the Company and help them to assess how the Board of Directors have...
View ArticleThe goal that defied the Nazis and killed a legend
17 min ago Topics Austria, Germany, FFT 50 Euros Goals, Action Replay comments Matthias Sindelar was arguably the finest player of the inter-war years, until a tap-in signalled the end of his career…...
View ArticleIndians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History
Carl Lumholtz: Tarahumara Woman Being Weighed, Barranca de San Carlos (Sinforosa), Chihuahua, 1892; from Among Unknown Tribes: Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumholtz. The book includes...
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Selected editorials from Oregon newspapers: The (Eugene) Register-Guard, Nov. 4, on the investigation of a UO law professor: Defenders of University of Oregon law professor Nancy Shurtz will point to...
View ArticleAlexander Hamilton and American Foreign Policy (The Heritage Foundation)
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) As one of the most penetrating and wide-ranging of America's political thinkers, Alexander Hamilton thought seriously about foreign policy, examining it in light of...
View ArticleBefore it's too late: Hong Kong author documents Chinese in Cuba
Hongkongers often have personal links with Chinese communities around the world, but former academic Louie Kin-sheun is a rare resident with a connection to Chinese emigrants in Cuba. Both his...
View ArticleWorld Press Freedom Day : Ghanaian PEN Centre celebrates writers, journalists
By Myjoyonline.com| AA The Ghanaian Centre of PEN International, an association of writers has commended writers and journalists as World Press Freedom Day is observed. In a statement signed by the...
View ArticleThe fascist architecture still hosting Italy's sporting events
Untroubled by history, Rome’s sportsmen and women play their games in Mussolini’s stadiums. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> After two...
View ArticleIndia’s grasswork and handicraft communities
Koodur crafts are a part of heritage, livelihoods and sustainability here in the Padder valley of Kishtwar, famously known for ‘Padderi’ kambals (blankets) and Jootis (shoes) for men and women....
View ArticleThe Literary Churchill – Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose: life...
At the very beginning of the very first James Bond movie, Dr No, Sean Connery comments to his losing opponent across the chemin de fer table at the casino that he admires her courage, to which she...
View Article2015_MUNICIPALGOVERNMENT_NEWS_20150626 (Mergent Inc)
(Source: Mergent Inc) MERGENT® MUNICIPAL & GOVERNMENT NEWS REPORTS NOTICE - Items in this issue will be listed online weekly and printed monthly. Friday, June 26, 2015 Volume 87 No. 6 ALABAMA...
View ArticleWhen Empires Fall, It’s Never Pretty
As they collapse, colonial empires usually show us what they are really made of. For proof, look no further than the miserable example of Portugal. Shop ▾ At some moment in the 15th century, Prince...
View ArticleService commemorates two WW2 Indian Seamen (Thanet District Council)
(Source: Thanet District Council) A special service organised by Thanet District Council has been held at Margate Cemetery to honour two Lascar Seamen who died upon 'S.S. Matra', which sank on November...
View ArticleThe Declaration of Afzalul Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent
Although it is almost seventy years since the last partition of the Subcontinent disquieting chasms remain on account of the partial knowledge not just of the partition, but in the recognition of the...
View ArticleAtaturk in the Nazi imagination
Those familiar with the basics of German history during World War I are aware of its close ties to the Ottoman Empire and, subsequently, with the New Turkey founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. However,...
View ArticleRacism Reform: Recognise, Respect And Remember
There seems to have been an intense hike in the instances of racism-fuelled violence in the UK since the referendum that brought us Brexit. Blame is widespread, from politicians to the media, and some...
View ArticleThe Oilman Who Loved Dictators
Or How Texaco Supported Fascism Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com [This piece has been adapted from Adam Hochschild's new book, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.]...
View ArticleHow a Major American Oil Company Supported Fascism
A piece adapted from Adam Hochschild's new book. This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. So much that matters in our world and on our planet happens in and remains in the shadows. This website...
View ArticleA melting Pot
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat inspects the swayamsevaks during a conclave, near Hinjewadi. (Express Photo by Pavan Khengre) The recent debate on nationalism brought the RSS to the centre of the discourse....
View Article‘Your animal life is over. Machine life has begun.’ The road to immortality
In California, radical scientists and billionaire backers think the technology to extend life – by uploading minds to exist separately from the body – is only a few years away...
View ArticleThe Shaping of American Character
By Arthur D. Robbins December 10, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - Have you ever thought that who you are as a person is determined in part by the government you live under? Political philosophers...
View ArticleOur political leaders should remember that loose lips sink ships
In democracies as vibrantly emotional as ours, where political nouns and adjectives are more prevalent than verbs, the tendency to engage the lips before the brain seems more instinctive than not. To...
View ArticleA blast from the colonial past
It is a bit late to enter the national debate on ‘returning awards because of the climate of intolerance’. The provocation to join, however, has come from ace musician Zubin Mehta. In his interview on...
View ArticleCurse of Mussolini and Moravia
LIKE most Indians Najman Bua also cursed when she was upset. “Taihka haija howaey. Taihka chhinni aawaey.” May you suffer from cholera was the first abuse of choice. The meaning of the second curse was...
View ArticleTrump says that spoils belong to the victor. That’s an invitation to more war.
Iraq war veteran Evan Cohen holds up a sign during a protest at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California on January 29, 2017. AFP PHOTO / Josh EdelsonJOSH EDELSON/AFP/Getty...
View ArticleWhy next week's Auto Expo matters like never before for an industry that's at...
Perhaps they underestimated the attendance. Or perhaps India's automobile industry had forgotten the good times. Whatever the reason, the press conference to raise the curtain on next week's Auto Expo...
View ArticleCompare or Not to Compare? Or How to Compare? (AICGS - American Institute For...
(Source: AICGS - American Institute For Contemporary German Studies) Japan has struggled with the legacies of its imperial aggression for decades.[1] Neither domestically nor internationally has the...
View ArticleWomen in India are voting today, thanks to a Jewish MP’s initiative 100 years...
Edwin Samuel Montagu is not a name that will resonate with Indians today. Born in 1879 and dying in 1924, he belongs to a bygone era — the Jewish MP who opposed the Balfour Declaration. The name Edwin...
View ArticleWhen We Loved Mussolini
New York Times Co./Getty Images Benito Mussolini and US Secretary of State Henry Stimson, Rome, July 1931 In the early 1960s, in the full flush of postwar Atlanticism, Gian Giacomo Migone, the scion of...
View ArticleUp to a point, sir
"News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that, it's dead." --Evelyn Waugh, Scoop It's Karen's turn to host her book club; I...
View ArticleCRISIL ratings for Indian debt instruments-Jun 7
Jun 7 (Reuters) - Below are the ratings awarded by Credit Rating Information Service of India (CRISIL) for local debt instruments as of June 6, 2017. COMPANY INSTRUMENT RATING AMOUNT MOVEMENT (RS.MLN)...
View ArticleForget the books, teach them how to fight! RSS wants military education in...
Forget the books, teach them how to fight! RSS wants military education in all schools If BJP would have been running the country in 1200 CE, Nalanda University would probably have been known not for...
View ArticleThe untold story of Sophia Duleep Singh, who advanced human rights in the...
History owes Anita Anand for writing Sophia. With her book, she uncovers perhaps the most unsung hero of the suffragette movement, sheds light on the sole person who brought the advancement of women to...
View ArticleIs A Major World War A Possibility? “Madness Can Never Be Excluded”. The...
Eight years ago, renowned economist and geopolitical analyst Frederic Clairmont, begs the question in lecture delivered in 2009 under the title Is A Major War A Possibility In 2009? The Historical...
View ArticleA visit to Orchha - the old capital city of Bundelkhand - in 2009
About 18 kilometres from Jhansi, a major railway junction of the Central Railways on its trunk route between New Delhi and Mumbai, there is a magical place called Orchha. The place lies in the...
View ArticleCould Punching Nazis Have Prevented Hitler From Taking Powe
On November 28, 2006 Alexander Cockburn wrote an article titled “” that interpreted the rise of conspiracism as the result of a dwindling number of leftists learning “their political economy from Marx...
View ArticleHereâs why Ashok Leyland#39;s Vinod Dasari felt like the bell in...
The outgoing president of Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) while stressing on the point that the automotive industry is held ‘responsible for all problems’, said there needs a clarity...
View ArticleFor India's Hindu Nationalists, Religion Alone Defines Entitlement, Rights...
The game of parliamentary numbers is on the side of Hindu nationalists. Will democracy protect all of India's citizens? It’s a worldview at odds with modernity and republicanism crafted in the Indian...
View ArticleHow a British Spy Drank His Way Across the Americas—and Missed the Civil War
Richard Burton was one of the greatest adventurers of the Victorian era, and a spy. But several weeks just before the Civil War are curiously missing from his life's account. PARIS—At the center of a...
View ArticleRecords of Shanghai
Eric Kisch is a historian. Although he does not hold a Ph.D. and made a comfortable living as a market researcher, he is a historian nonetheless. The signs are all there: the storytelling, the...
View ArticleFaith and fear
Amazon's HQ2 might not come as easily as its Seattle baseGoogle serves fake news ads on fact-checking sitesSwiss couple attacked in Agra: Three arrested; Centre, UP govt condemn incident It’s a...
View ArticleHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war
The Great War is often depicted as an unexpected catastrophe. But for millions who had been living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new. By Pankaj Mishra...
View Article100 years on, the Balfour Declaration and the Great War
A century ago Britain published the Balfour Declaration, hailed today as a charter document for the state of Israel. But promoting Zionism was not the real aim – it was about winning a world war. "...
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