Spinning the Matrix on 7 Feb., 2020

Gandhi’s Killer Evokes Admiration as Never Before
As Hindu nationalism continues its march across India, a cult of personality is rising around Nathuram Godse, the Hindu extremist who killed Gandhi.


Chief minister of Indian state says ‘Muslims should be fed with bullets’

Report: 'Political motive' for murder of anti-Putin blogger

American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations
...As far as I know, the early Zionists had a record of political terrorism almost unmatched in world history, and in 1974 Prime Minister Menachem Begin once even boasted to a television interviewer of having been the founding father of terrorism across the world.
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Although the deaths might have been accidental, Zia’s wide assortment of bitter enemies led most observers to assume foul play, and there was some evidence that a nerve gas agent, possibly released from a crate of mangos, had been used to incapacitate the crew and thereby cause the crash.

At the time, Dean had reached the pinnacle of his career, serving as our ambassador in neighboring India, while the ambassador killed in the crash, Arnold Raphel, had been his closest personal friend, also Jewish. By 2005, Dean was elderly and long-retired, and he finally decided to break his seventeen years of silence and reveal the strange circumstances surrounding the events, saying that he was convinced that the Israeli Mossad had been responsible...

Mediterranean sea urchins are more vulnerable than thought

The Black Sea should be a US and NATO priority

End of the world: Pope's 'life about to change' admission revealed as prophecy 'fulfilled'
THE END OF THE WORLD will see "life turn upside down" according to the Pope, who may just be the final part of the jigsaw if a bizarre 900-year-old prophecy is right.

The Trump Administration and the New Architects of Fear
The government’s plan to mandate “neoclassical” buildings might be one of the most blatantly authoritarian things it has yet attempted.

Who owns the coronavirus cure? China’s move to patent Gilead’s experimental drug for the novel virus could lead to legal wrangle

Three oil installations are bombed in Homs

The Politics of Difference: Italy’s Nationalist Turn and the Struggle between “New” and “Old” Italians

Mediterranean Blues: Agreements and Escalating Tensions

Racially-motivated violent extremists elevated to "national threat priority," FBI says

Another Fmr Cop Arrested in Connection to Child Sex Ring Run by High-Level SWAT Commander

The time I sabotaged my editor with ransomware from the dark web.

'A crash was going to happen': Two accidents by same airline at Istanbul airport raise questions about flight safety

Can Pakistan’s foreign and security policy be ‘neutral’?

Is Putin Planning to Demand Bering Sea Areas Back from the US?

US axes PKK drone spying for Turkey

The Baltic States are Target Number One

Asymmetrical Flows
Kazakhstan, which shares a nearly 1,800-kilometer-long land border with China, represents a key site in the SREB’s transit corridor.

Does writing books still matter in an era of environmental catastrophe?

The Best Board Games of the Ancient World

The government is finally cracking down on robocall enablers

Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data on Wuhan virus deaths

Difficult ally or Eurasian enemy? Turkey in the eyes of American think tanks

Amnesty demands immediate release of Saudi rights activists
Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia is using a secretive special court as a weapon to systematically silence dissent, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all human rights defenders who defy the country’s absolute monarchy.

The Army Wants Technology that Can See Through Walls—and Identify People on the Other Side

Gangland killer says he paid Gobbo $30,000 a month to report snitches

Terror police's Extinction Rebellion 'risk report' sent out a year ago

When Kirk Douglas Distributed Aid in War-Torn Greece
Legendary Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 103, actively supported the United States’ aid efforts for Greece in the midst of the catastrophic Civil War in the late 1940s.

The AI delusion: why humans trump machines

Striving to Belong: Reflections on Growing up with a Dual Nationality

One-way trip from Athens to Lahore
The absence of diplomatic channels with some irregular migrants’ origin countries (Greece does not even have an embassy in some of these countries) can seriously delay or even cancel a deportation. Even countries that do have consular authorities in Athens may need more than eight months to issue the necessary documents.

America: Land of Make-Believe
The rhetoric we use to describe ourselves is so disconnected from reality that it has induced collective schizophrenia.

The Crew Of This Army National Guard M1 Abrams Tank Flies An Anarchist Flag In Kuwait (Updated)
Pictures recently emerged of an M1 Abrams main battle tank from the South Carolina Army National Guard in Kuwait flying a large black flag with a stylized red "A" inside a circle, as well as one showing a crew member sporting a patch with a similar circled A and the phrase "No Masters."

'boda boda madness' by jan hoek + bobbin case captures nairobi's eccentric motortaxi drivers

Fighting to Save Indigenous Sign Languages
Reconciliation commission called for action to save Indigenous languages — but traditional sign languages are being forgotten.

Researchers are no longer in doubt: Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter.

One in five people say they prefer having a pet DOG to being in a romantic relationship because 'they don't let you down like humans do'

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