A Potion to Heal and Kill
Since thousands of years poisons have been both a deadly threat and a protective tool used around the world. Poisons have played a dominant role in our history and...
Will India be Applauded for G20 Presidency?
Dr Baljeet analyses the many challenges that India must surmount despite its laudable G20 presidency. What are these? – an exclusive for Different Truths. The G20 is comprised of...
Fake News: The Octopus in the Newsroom
The hard fact these days of impact journalism and paid news is that perception managers run newsrooms, not newspersons; and journalists get to become ‘made guys’ when they’re promoted...
Facebook in Trouble it phoned up a Decade Ago: Situation Has Got a Lot Trickier for Zuckerberg
The clean-cut CEO of Facebook, social media where friends serenade friends and get high on ‘likes’, was just getting over the profligacy of Cambridge Analytica when the NYT comes...
Marxism is More Relevant Now: Every Country Has to Find Its Own Path to Socialism
Marx revealed exactly how exploitation of labour and capital accumulation occur under capitalism. Marxism rejects all dogma and its development as a living and creative methodology didn’t end with...
When Economics Morphs into Politics and Diplomacy: Trump Policies Bring Exalted Status to Russia
Sochi and St Petersburg have become, in a way, the centre of the world this week. Leaders from across the world are converging on to the two hotspots, seeking...
Maduro Re-Elected President of Venezuela: Trump Threatens to Impose Economic Sanctions
This election season has been a wild ride for Maduro and Venezuela. After the death of President Hugo Chávez in March 2013, Maduro, a former bus driver and labour...
The US Left Brace Up in a Big Way for Mid-Term Elections in November
The midterm elections will take place in the middle of the President Trump’s term. All 435 seats in the US House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats...
Trump Desperate to End Investigations of Mueller: Republican Congressmen Rally around President
While Trump and his associates like Giuliani increase their attacks on Mueller, the special counsel continues to doggedly proceed, preparing more of the criminal charges he has so successfully...
Trump Pushing for a Mideast War: Iranian Leader Warns Against US-Saudi-Israel Axis
In his many appearances on national television, John Bolton, Trump’s national security advisor, has called for an attack on Iran—up to and including a full-scale invasion—and for the installation...