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• Revisiting the concepts of Panopticon and Synopticon: An inquiry into naturalisation of totalitarian surveillance in the name of covid19 pandemic | Gopal Krishna

  11 July 2020, by Gopal Krishna

  by Gopal Krishna
  Introduction
  Both ideas and ideologies have decisive killing effect.Derived from two Greek words which means "all-seeing", the original idea of panopticon was that of a prison conceived and designed to ensure perfect comprehensive surveillance of the prisoners. Panopticon refers to “the few seeing the many”. In this architecture, all those humans who have been made sub-humans through their categorisation as prisoners are under the inspection of few inspectors. Its (…)

• Devoid of morality Indian media crawling before rulers | Arun Srivastava

  11 July 2020

  Integrity and credibility of the media has degenerated to such an extent that now the police, not the judiciary, will issue its firman (diktat) whether it has the right and enjoys the privilege guaranteed by the constitution to criticise the government and question its action.

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  Alarming Increase in Lightning Deaths in Bihar | Bharat Dogra

  11 July 2020

  Between June 25 and July 4 as many as 120 persons died in Bihar due to lightning strikes. In addition there were several other deaths due to the same cause during the same period in neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh. Several others were injured in very painful ways.
  As many as 110 persons died following lightning strikes on a single day on June 25 in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, over 80 in Bihar alone. Others later succumbed to their injuries.
  This is a huge tragedy as this many (…)

• Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian lands are under greater threat in Brazil during COVID-19 | Elielson Pereira da Silva, Diana Cordoba

  11 July 2020

  The far right-wing government of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has used the COVID-19 pandemic as a smokescreen to undo environmental regulations and undermine the territorial rights of Indigenous Peoples and traditional Afro-Brazilian communities in the Amazon.

• Rogue States Sanction the International Criminal Court | Richard Falk

  11 July 2020

  Even Orwell would be at a loss to make sense of some of the recent antics of leading governments. We would expect Orwell to be out-satirized by the American actions to impose penalties and sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court

• Russia’s Amendments to The Constitution - Official Version Vs Opposition Response | R.G.Gidadhbli

  11 July 2020

  by R.G.Gidadhbli
  On 3rd July Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that will bring into force a sweeping package of constitutional amendments that were approved overwhelmingly by Russians. According to Russia’s Central Election Commission, 65 pc of voters participated in the week long voting from 25th June to 1st July 2020 with 78 pc ballots approving the package of more than 200 amendments to the Russian Constitution. This is a significant political development in contemporary (…)

• The development of Trotsky’s analysis of the Soviet bureaucracy | Thomas M. Twiss

  11 July 2020

  In his presentation, Paul Le Blanc has provided a brief account of the darkening situation in the Soviet Union in the years following the revolution, of the heroic resistance by members of the Left Opposition, and of the “deep black night

• Akhil Gogoi: A peasant leader jailed for supporting the poor and oppressed | Atul and Sandeep Pandey

  11 July 2020

  Akhil Gogoi-a peasant leader and Right to Information activist from Assam has been in jail since December 2019. His crime is that he exercised his fundamental right of speech and expression by protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

• What’s Become of My Uttar Pradesh!

  11 July 2020, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS - July 7, 2020
  Guns and gun battles! Land mafia ruling and overruling the political mafia, together with the police force! The latest, of course, the gunning down of eight policemen by gangster, Vikas Dubey. Violence and anarchy is spreading out in the State of Uttar Pradesh, together with polarization and divides. Decay and deterioration hits. Many of the mofussil towns described as living hells.
  Killings of civilians have been on, in recent years, by gangsters and also by (…)

• The NHRC’s report on Jamia Violence has relied on the Dominant Narrative of Delhi Police and ignored the Victim’s Point of Views | Badre Alam Khan

  11 July 2020

  by Badre Alam Khan
  Recently the NHRC (National Human Right Commission) has released its report on ‘Jamia Violence’ which took place on 15th December 2019 at night. The Commission in its report has largely blamed the protesting students (who were peacefully and non-violent manner against anti-constitutional Act like CAA, emphasis mine) and said that they were found being indulged in violent protests without permission from concerned authority. The report while doing some ‘soft criticism’ (…)