Category: History of Science
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Rang De Habibti*
On the night of the 27th of October, when Israel first imposed a communications blackout on Gaza, we made our way to an emergency protest near the Binnenhof in Den Haag (the so-called heart of Dutch democracy). I guess we were around fifty to sixty people there. Not many but still impressive for a hastily…
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Israeli Army: The most moral in the world says Netanyahu who is an honorable man
Americans, Europeans, WHITES, Lend me your ears I come to examine Israel and its army, not to bury it. The good, if any, that allies of the west do is glorified; The evil is oft ignored or forgotten; So let it be with Israel. The noble Netanyahu Hath told you Israeli Army is the most…
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Palestine and Sports: Is the Ali of the 60s back?
The Name is Muhammad Ali Mighty Whitey And imma whoop your ass, you hoity toity I’m for my blacks, my browns and my Chinese Who you bomb, maim and kill with glees And I will hold Hamas in condemnation, Only when you stop killing innocents And end your brutal occupation! (my take on what Ali…
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Why Do the Germans Hate Us?
What is it about the structural racism in German culture that facilitates human degradation and human suffering? The below is written in the spirit of all the “Why do they hate us” rants, think-pieces and videos about Muslims and Arabs, that we have been bombarded with for over 20 years now. Germany has banned and…
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Mehdi Hasan and Glenn Greenwald – The “Sewer Rat” and the “Bristling Pig”? The Inevitable Case of those who have come after Chomsky, Finkelstein et al.?
When an old Tolstoy had fallen severely ill, the much younger Chekhov fearing for Tolstoy’s death, wrote to a friend: “Tolstoy takes a firm stand, he has an immense authority, and so long as he is alive, bad tastes in literature, vulgarity of every kind, insolent and lachrymose, all the bristling, exasperated vanities will be…
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Polarized Pakistan and the Disconnected Global Left: Reflections on a crazy viral blog post
How a blog post aimed at defending Prof. Chomsky revealed the extreme fault lines in Pakistani society and underlined the broken relationship between North and South Left So how does it feel to know that you are the reason your intellectual idol is currently inundated with mail, a lot of it hate, from all sorts…
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CHOMSKY SAYS NO MEANINGFUL EVIDENCE OF COUP AGAINST IMRAN KHAN!
The famed leftwing political activist says that using the threatening letter as evidence of a coup is “meaningless”! I have for long admired and followed Prof. Chomsky’s work. Among the people he has never met, I am probably one of the few with whom it was Prof. Chomsky who initiated an email correspondence! Well, technically.…
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Fake News Or Ground Truth? Alice And The Queen of Hearts
If an analysis of computing texts were to be done, I am willing to bet that ‘Alice in Wonderland’ would rank at the top (or near the top) of the list of most highly quoted books by computer scientists (think Chapter beginnings or fancy quotations below titles etc, or any place where us computer guys…
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Viva Castro, the Michelangelo of revolutionaries!
The towering personality of the 20th century has passed away. His achievements and those of Cuba under him are monumental. Forget the fact that he led the charge against the brutal imperial power in the hemisphere. Forget how he and the country survived the ruthless embargo imposed by their monstrous neighbor and not only built…
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Father Berrigan: For the Children and the Bread
Father Dan Berrigan died yesterday (April 30, 2016). He was one of the leading lights of the antiwar and civil rights movements of the 60s and 70s. Father Berrigan continued his activism till the last days of his life, in recent years protesting against the latest imperialist ventures including the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. During…