Mainstream WeeklyFire, fire, everywhere,
As far as the eye can span;
Fire across the continents,
Fire in the mind of man.
The oceans rise, the waters fall,
Yet fire defeats deluge;
Governance is a fireball,
Fire inflames the stooge.
Centuries of progression
From animal to reason
Now burn at the tyrant’s stake
As treachery and treason.
Bullets lurk in syllables,
Wrapped in the fire of hate;
New commandments are etched in fire
Of the infernal state.
Fire fears the temperate
As lies fear (…)
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Fire | Badri Raina
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South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng are burning - We need to build a just peace | Abahlali baseMjondolo
16 July 2021[South African military has been deployed on a large scale (25 thousand troops) as the former President Jacob Zuma was jailed towards the end of the first week of July 2021 and unrest and looting spread in various towns. Zuma who was President till 2018, faces charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering in multiple cases and one the most prominent cases involves the three Gupta Brothers from Delhi who ran a business empire that indulged in state capture; ]
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For Nuclear Disarmament, the Long Run Is Here | Andrew Lichterman
16 July 2021by Andrew Lichterman
July 6, 2021
Twenty-five years ago this month, the International Court of Justice issued its Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the Threat and Use of Nuclear Weapons. In a closely divided ruling, the Court found that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would "generally be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, and in particular the principles and rules of humanitarian law." In the same divided ruling, however, the Court found (…) -
Sex testing at the Olympics should be abolished once and for all | Bruce Kidd
16 July 2021July 11, 2021
Like the proverbial whack-a-mole, the Olympic sex test keeps coming back — with disastrous effects for women athletes across the globe — no matter how many times athletes and human rights’ advocates think they have abolished it.
The test was introduced in the 1930s to weed out “abnormal women athletes” from the Olympics. The first test was a physical examination.
During the 1960s, when women began to object to the test’s “nude parades,” which set a limit of 10 nanomoles (…) -
Military Exercises On The Black Sea Might Worsen Russia-Ukraine Relations | R.G.Gidadhubli
16 July 2021by R.G.Gidadhubli*
Ukraine and USA have carried out ‘Annual Sea Breeze Military Exercises’ from 4th to 10th July 2021 in the Kherson Region of Ukraine on the coast of Black Sea near Odessa, which assumes significance due to its timing, magnitude and intent of this military exercises. At the same time it raises few debatable issues apart from worsening relations between Russia and Ukraine.
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A Machine for Epiphanies: How Soviet Icons Sell Space | Thomas Ellis
16 July 2021Sixty years after Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth his image is used to market privatised space travel to the ultra-rich, Thomas Ellis reports.
20 May 2021
Last month space enthusiasts around the world celebrated sixty years of human spaceflight. On the twelfth of April 1961, a twenty-seven-year-old Soviet Air Force officer named Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in his spacecraft Vostok 1. Across the Russian Federation, (…) -
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