This week, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of America’s militarily unnecessary[1] use of the atom bomb at Hiroshima, John Pilger wrote an excellent piece on the horrors of that day and its long bleak aftermath, linking them to the insanity of the drive currently underway for war on China. (It’s in Consortium. The days are gone when Guardian or […]

A deceased passenger has tested positive after death in the Kozhikode plane crash on Friday night. The passenger, one of the 18 passengers, who died in the Air India Express plane crash in Kozhikode, was returning to India from Dubai on the Vande Bharat repatriation mission flight on Friday night.  The Air India Express flight […]

How should online hate and misinformation be dealt with? When Wiley launched a tirade of anti-Semitism, his social media accounts were removed, as have the accounts of hate actors like Katie Hopkins, and Alex Jones in recent years. In response to the growing following of the QAnon conspiracy theory, Twitter has deleted over 7,000 accounts dedicated […]

This year, most likely due to Covid-19 prevention measures, no influenza has been detected by three sentinel surveillance programmes, which are designed to monitor influenza outbreaks annually.  According to a short article in the July 2020 monthly communique published by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, after an initial outbreak of two strains of flu in […]