| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Modi’s Tianjin photo-op with Xi and Putin has made headlines, but India’s choices remain alarmingly unsettled.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Unearthed bones in Chemmani reopen the wounds of Sri Lanka’s war years and the silence that followed.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The former Ambassador says India must learn not to underplay its own sensitivity when it comes to China.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The great American sport of India-bashing becomes a team effort.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
Bolivia looks set to return to its neoliberal past.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
In the era of far-right dominance, Global South can offer an alternative vision and lay the groundwork for a more democratic, equitable global order.| Frontline Columnists - The Best Opinion on the Web Today | Frontline
One year after Hasina’s fall, Dhaka drifts between unrest and recalibration, while India faces lost leverage and a hostile flank.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The former Chief of Army Staff says India always viewed a stable Pakistan as in its interest, but Islamabad sees New Delhi as permanent threat.| Reviews of latest books and articles on authors | Frontline
[I’ve created this post as a public service, because there are few places on the Web where this fallacy is recorded, and the places where it is strike me as liable to linkrot.] A “Wykehamist” is someone who went to Winchester College. The Wykehamist Fallacy has been a source of some terrible errors in Western foreign […]| PooterGeek
After a summer break, another episode of International Edition with Levy and Counsell is up at Ricochet.com. [iTunes link to follow.] Here’s the Ricochet blurb: TV news shows often only turn up in distant countries when the shooting starts. This approach can scare off, or simply puzzle, intelligent and curious viewers who would prefer more backstory […]| PooterGeek
This week, Judith Levy and I interviewed independent international correspondent Michael J. Totten. Michael Totten, who has reported extensively from the Middle East, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. Sohrab Ahmari of Commentary wrote of Michael that he "practices journalism in the tradition of Orwell: morally imaginative, partisan in the best sense of the word, and delivered in […]| PooterGeek
Here’s an extraordinary thing: a documented cover-up by a US administration—not one imagined by conspiracy theorists: There's new evidence, obtained by ABC, that the Obama administration did deliberately purge references to "terrorism" from accounts of the attack on the Benghazi diplomatic mission, which killed four people including the US ambassador to Libya. Conservatives have long […]| PooterGeek
Over at Ricochet.com, our producer Scott named this podcast The Politics of Petulance after an article of the same name by David Horovitz in the Times Of Israel that Judith and I mention towards the end of our discussion. There are a few other sources I’d like to give credit to: Yau-Man Chan at Skepticblog writing about the curious cult of […]| PooterGeek
This is the first edition of the podcast that’s freely available gratis to people who don’t subscribe to Ricochet so fill yer boots. Judith and I just wound Claire up and let her run, though I did press her to come up with some hard, pragmatic reasons for the West (the US) to intervene in […]| PooterGeek
Judith and I discuss current events in Israel for Ricochet.com. The sound is better all round this time, though it’s clear I’m going to have to work on being a bit slicker. It’s p…| PooterGeek
La Cina è "sconvolta e delusa" dalle sanzioni USA all'Autorità Nazionale Palestinese| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Hamas: il viaggio di Witkoff a Gaza uno "spettacolo di propaganda"| www.lantidiplomatico.it
A luglio, le milizie governative siriane hanno torturato a morte otto detenuti| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Lavrov invita l'autoproclamato presidente siriano Al-Shaara al vertice Russia-Lega araba| www.lantidiplomatico.it
L'inazione araba favorisce i crimini israeliani a Gaza: Sayyed al-Houthi| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Gli USA impongono all'Iran le sanzioni più severe degli ultimi sette anni| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Ex istruttrice dell'esercito israeliano assunta come nuova "“responsabile della lotta all’odio" di TikTok| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Pyongyang accusa Washington e Seul di prepararsi alla guerra nucleare| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Trump precisa il termine dato alla Russia per raggiungere un accordo| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Trump strappa all’UE apertura dei mercati, ma i 600 miliardi di investimenti sono un bluff| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Corea del Nord: "Status nucleare irreversibile, gli USA accettino la realtà"| www.lantidiplomatico.it
La Siria annuncia le "prime elezioni parlamentari" dopo i massacri settari| www.lantidiplomatico.it
L'Iran rivela un "nuovo protocollo" con l'AIEA| www.lantidiplomatico.it
Yemen, Houthi annunciano quarta fase blocco navale contro Israele| www.lantidiplomatico.it
L'Iran avverte: corridoio di Zangezur è un complotto USA-Israele per bloccare Teheran e Mosca| www.lantidiplomatico.it
IAM scholars Brandon Norgaard, Nicholas Hedlund, PhD, and Claudia Meglin provide a sweeping (albeit provisional) cartography of emergent frameworks rooted in an “Integrative Worldview“—ranging from metamodernism and integral theory to systems science, process philosophy, and critical realism—that are converging around a shared impulse to address the root causes of our civilizational predicament. This post was originally published on Integral Life.| Integral Life
By Emily Kopp, Daily Caller News Foundation | July 08, 2025 The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously| tippinsights
Law professor and integral scholar Mark Fischler argues that American courts remain trapped in a binary approach to rights — a structure that cannot meet the complexity of today’s pluralistic society. Drawing on the example of Roe v. Wade, comparative legal models, and integral theory, he proposes a new legal paradigm — Integral Democratic Inclusivity — capable of honoring multiple rights and fostering a more inclusive, evolving vision of justice.| Integral Life
The Iran-based religious scholar speaks on the US strikes, Iran’s response, and the deeper ideological war shaping West Asia.| Latest News from The Hindu Frontline | Frontline
He speaks clearly about socialism, Palestine, and race, without apology or dilution, offering a new guide for electoral politics in the West.| Latest Politics News | Frontline | Frontline
MEA issues clarification, claims officer was misquoted; Congress wants government to answer questions on Operation Sindoor.| Latest Politics News | Frontline | Frontline
Trump Forces Freeloaders to Finally Pony Up| tippinsights
Nick Hedlund introduces Visionary Realism, a synthesis of Integral Theory and Critical Realism that addresses the root causes of our global Metacrisis. Rather than offering surface-level solutions, he invites us to align with the deeper structure of reality through aletheic resonance — a participatory, reverent way of knowing that may be key to the emergence of a new kind of human.| Integral Life
As minority politics collapses and ethnic tensions simmer, a new study urges the Anura Dissanayake-led NPP government to uphold the 13th Amendment, hold provincial council elections, and initiate inclusive constitutional reform.| Frontline
117 drones, five airfields, one wounded ego—Ukraine’s strike exposed not just Russia’s defences, but its dwindling claim to global heft.| India’s National Fortnightly Magazine
The Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh is caught unawares as student protests over a quota for freedom fighters in jobs and education turn violent and claim more than 150 lives. While Hasina sees it as the handiwork of her political opponents, saner voices have urged her to reach out to the students. As Bangladesh limps back to normalcy, with Internet and mobile phone services restored, people are still asking how and why the agitating students, who were for weeks protesting peacefully, s...| Frontline
He thought of the SS man whose flat they were renovating, how he talked excitedly about his wife’s arrival, no doubt imagining her joy when she saw the new kitchen.| A Thinking Person, a.k.a. Cogit8R
We should discard the culprit system and create a system that works for us.| GenuineProspect
“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World| GenuineProspect