Join our Whatsapp channel COMMUNIST parties in India are quibbling over the characteristics of fascism to see if Antonio Gramsci’s views on the scourge from his Italian experience are relevant to the challenge of vacating the threat in the country.... The RSS was inspired by both Mussolini and Hitler who its leaders had described as the model for dealing with India’s minorities.... In the recent polls, they were reduced to the margins, not far from being rendered negligible in the electoral fr

Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced that Silicon Valley investor and attorney Nicole Shanahan will be his running mate.Mr Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, made the announcement at an event in Oakland, California on Tuesday.... Ms Shanahan was previously married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin and she has in the past donated to Democrats, including to President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign. She also donated to the Kennedy campa

Xi Jinping, in common with many Russians, is saying that a global order based on growing consumption, inequality and moral vacuum is a “grave threat from within” – even an existential threat. The Singaporean Ambassador at large, Bilahari Kausikan, earlier this month put his finger on an issue tha

Japan is in a state of emergency.... But we do need to eat. Enter the saving grace of these Olympics, the glue holding the whole thing together: Tokyo’s 24-hour convenience stores, or conbini, as they are known in Japan.... 1, 2021, 4: 19 a.m.ET Alexander Zverev and Karen Khachanov are chasing singles gold in men’s tennis....

During the early months of pandemic isolation, there were few distractions as cathartic and cheering as the Culture Dance challenge on TikTok, set to the squelchy, loping “ Laxed( Siren Beat), ” by Jawsh 685.... Almost anyone could participate, and participate they did.In thousands of videos, people did the dance and showed off clothing particular to their heritage — Korean, Nigerian, Ukrainian, French, Brazilian and so many more.... Even in its most generative and enthusiastic moments, social

And it has been a Chicago staple since. When most people in the U.S. think of softball, they envision a game that is played with gloves and a 12-inch ball.... “ And I’ll tell you, these guys are good.” It was not uncommon for the Windy City Softball League to draw several thousand fans during its existence from the early 1930s to about 1950.... Some of those games attracted more fans than “ the Cubs and( White) Sox did, ” Maag said....

For anyone else anchored here on planet Earth, the competition to be the first billionaire in space should mark a milestone in the towering vanity of the wealthy.... That’s also a theme of the third billionaire engaged in this plutocrats’ space race, Elon Musk.... I can say this from personal experience; as a schoolboy in the 1960s I knew the names and vital statistics of every one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, detailed as they were by Life magazine, which had reached an exclusive

China is waging a “ war on terror ” — against members of its own Uyghur minority.... “ They constantly refer to their war on terror.... How can those behind renditions of al Qaeda suspects to black sites, graphically documented torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison, and drone strikes on Afghan weddings complain of abuse?...

Her appointment comes at a time when the country is grappling with how to accelerate reconciliation efforts with Indigenous peoples, particularly after the discoveries of unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools.... That’s despite Beijing’s move to implement a national security law last year that has effectively hobbled most opposition to the government.It also comes amid a massive police effort to prevent any rallies on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover. Editorial: Good

His YouTube and Reddit accounts were full of videos and posts denigrating women and glorifying guns. Yet it is difficult to know how much of this content Davison had sought out, and how much had been directed at him.... “ So if you’ve been rejected by women, you can quite easily find a group that validates your angry feelings.” Experts say that such online communities tend to succumb to a phenomenon called ‘group polarisation’ where their views become more extreme over time.... In such forums,