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This blog has been very generously reposted by Dr Dilip Simeon, historian, New Delhi:  https://dsimian.com/   AFTER THE TRUTH-SHOWER Philosophy, history, literature, current affairs, and other stuff. Posted by Dilip Simeon Looking through this blog I find numerous interesting articles posted here. Such as:  https://dsimian.com/2024/05/25/the-message-of-israels-torture-chambers-is-directed-at-all-of-us-not-just-palestinians/ https://dsimian.com/2024/05/25/paul-daley-myall-creek-australia-here-in-1838-a-crime-that-would-not-be-forgotten-took-place-rock-art-as-record-of-imperialism/ https://dsimian.com/2024/05/25/civil-society-hearing-into-the-1988-massacre-in-iran-open-letter-to-the-un-human-rights-council/ https://dsimian.com/2024/05/24/its-in-our-rivers-and-in-our-cups-theres-no-escape-the-deadly-spread-of-salt-water-in-bangladesh/ https://dsimian.com/2024/05/24/how-billionaires-silenced-us-campus-protests/ https://dsimian.com/2024/05/13/turkey-allocates-only-10-out-of-20000-teaching-p

Empire & Secrecy   Even as empires ended, the transfer of wealth to the West continued.   This   was enabled by two key policies.    By the first , the US allowed Britain to effectively default (https://thewire.in/banking/how-india paid-to-create-the-london-of-today) on its  wartime debt to India (including Pakistan) & Egypt of money owed for exports to the United States &  expenditure on Allied war effort in Italy North Africa the Middle East Burma Malaya & Japan, by secretly working out a deal in 1947 to allow the UK post War Labour Government to renege on its formal commitment to convertibility of the pound sterling upon which those countries had predicated their agreements with the UK (https://thewire.in/history/independent-india-secret-uk-us-deal-britain-wartime-debt).            As a result, the UK not only very gradually drew down its worldwide colonial commitments over the next two decades, but banks worldwide were compelled to hold sterling at a time when all –

  The Media, Pitroda & Gaza The controversy in India about the Opposition Congress supporter Sam Pitroda evidently arises from the media’s wilful misrepresentation of what he said: for when he rejoiced at the ethnic  diversity  of Indians, that was claimed racist  when he recommended  redistribution   Indians were told they would be impoverished to benefit Muslims . The Press acts as self-appointed guardian of public memory. It remembers but has chosen to suppress how it aided Modi’s rise to power – by disseminating uncritically his promise of  redistribution . Namely to gift every  poor Indian Rs 15 lakhs of Indian money supposedly held abroad by it was insinuated Congress Leader Sonia Gandhi.  That would have meant giving Rs 417 trillion to 278 million people (https://pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles/IND). That undertaking has been evidently abandoned as billionaires have multiplied under Modi yet have often fled abroad when their gross theft of public funds has come to ligh