“We are now getting reports of people getting re-infected with the new variant of the virus, and there have been some initial reports from South Africa suggesting that people who have had prior infection could get infected again,” she told a WHO news briefing. Swaminathan did not specify the number …
Read More »Why India’s future development depends on the outcome of farmers’ protests and why the West watches silently
India is rapidly becoming one of the most strategically significant countries in the world. With a vast population of 1.3 billion, it is now the anchor of the western ‘Indo-Pacific’ jargon, a vision that, as declassified White House papers set out, seeks to promote the “rise of India” as a …
Read More »The same abhorrent Republican neocons whose treachery gave rise to Trump are talking of forming a new party because of Trump
Hating former president Donald Trump isn’t enough. The Democrats already have that huge market cornered. In fact, it’s just about the only unifying principle that holds together the Dems’ disparate coalition of special interests and freak shows. So what kind of coalition might the approximately 120 Republican officials who met …
Read More »‘Disgusted’ Nikki Haley throws Trump under the bus, but conservatives & #Resistance are having none of her ‘flip-flop’
“We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley told Politico in an interview published Friday, making an effort to create palpable space between herself – an upwardly-mobile young politician apparently determined to run for president in 2024 – and the former commander-in-chief whose own party couldn’t wait to stick …
Read More »Cambridge academics slated by Brits for conference declaring Winston Churchill ‘WORSE THAN THE NAZIS’
When the former UK prime minister founded Churchill College at Cambridge University in 1958, he likely couldn’t have foreseen that in 2021, academics there would be gathering to compare him unfavorably to Adolf Hitler. Yet that’s exactly what took place on Thursday, in a virtual discussion titled, ‘The Racial Consequences …
Read More »The American establishment has lost its mind in its obsession with trying to discredit Trumpism
Yet this same establishment calls half the population of the US conspiratorial, delusional, and terroristic, even as it parades a lunatic’s version of events during a second unfounded, evidence-free impeachment trial of former President Donald J. Trump, and as it continues lamentations over the supposed malignancy of his presidency, weeks …
Read More »‘If you want Visiting Forces Agreement, you have to pay!’: Philippines’ Duterte signals freebie for US is over
“I want to put notice, if there is an American agent here, if you want VFA [Visiting Forces Agreement], you have to pay. You have to pay because it is a shared responsibility,” President Rodrigo Duterte said on Friday night. “Your share of responsibility does not come free because, after …
Read More »China’s totalitarian rules for performers are a perfect fit for unrelentingly woke Hollywood
The two global gold standards when it comes to open-mindedness and tolerance for diversity of opinion have always been Hollywood and China. Like Sauron and Saruman’s two towers in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Hollywood and China are monuments to artistic freedom and freedom of expression, at least I think …
Read More »China’s totalitarian rules for performers are a perfect fit for unrelentingly woke Hollywood
The two global gold standards when it comes to open-mindedness and tolerance for diversity of opinion have always been Hollywood and China. Like Sauron and Saruman’s two towers in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Hollywood and China are monuments to artistic freedom and freedom of expression, at least I think …
Read More »Scientists identify potential culprit behind post-Covid-19 ‘brain fog’
“We were initially approached by our colleagues in critical-care medicine, who had observed severe delirium in many patients who were hospitalised with Covid-19,” says neuro-oncologist Jessica Wilcox, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in New York. Her team’s initial investigations eventually snowballed into a multidisciplinary collaboration between neurology, critical …
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