United Archives via Getty Images Facing political turmoil and protests, Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency in 1975 At midnight on 25 June 1975, India – a young democracy and the world’s largest – froze. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi had just declared a nationwide Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended, opposition leaders jailed, the press gagged,...
If there’s anything we’ve done pretty well for a Stateside blog, I think it’s trying to keep y’all up with what’s happening across the pond. Granted, we have no deep understanding of either European tribalism or feudalism and it’s damn near every day I thank God the Founding Fathers did not harness us with the...
Remember Dean Phillips? Few do. Few even know who he was. Even more have only the vaguest sense that the Minnesota Congressman challenged the President of the United States in the Democratic primaries in 2024, and most of them probably assume that he did so because he was egotistical or on a quixotic quest. It’s...
Well, this was interesting. I’ve only caught a few clips from the Bernie Sanders appearance on the Flagrant Podcast, but you have to hand it to Bernie, he is authentic and is willing to call the balls and strikes as he sees them. At least mostly. No politician is ever totally honest–I think it violates...
Looks like David Hogg will get his wish. This weekend, Hogg lamented that Democrats just don’t get that young men want to “get laid.” Great news, then; thanks to a subcommittee vote, the DNC appears ready to screw him. And it looks as though they will play right into the hands of Republicans while doing...
Paul Melly West Africa analyst Reuters Even a stellar international business career cannot prepare you for the hard realities of politics in Ivory Coast, where some are questioning the democratic credentials of the West African nation most famous for being the producer of much of the world’s cocoa and some of its finest footballers. That...
Seriously, what is the point of defending Europe? Well, maybe to defend the Louvre and some monuments to a once-great culture? I can’t think of many other reasons, now that the continent has descended once-again into the 1930s-style of fascism (no, not the Nazis of the late thirties and 40s, but more Mussolini-style fascism). Elections...
Well, at least the mask is off. You have to hand it to David Hogg on this one, he doesn’t mince words. ???? WHOA… DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, the party’s new face, issues stunning new statement on “democracy” “Democracy is what put us through school shooter drills and schools shootings. It’s what’s put us...
“I lie sleepless … in Jena, Louisiana, far from my wife, Noor, who will give birth to our baby in two weeks,” he wrote. In a letter from an immigrant detention center in Louisiana, pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil has pleaded for his case to spur the public into action against the rapid erosion of civil...
AFP Little more than 19 months after the bloodless coup that brought an end to more than five decades of rule by the Bongo family, the people of Gabon are about to head to the polls to choose a new head of state – bucking a trend that has seen military leaders elsewhere in Africa...
BBC Yasin Akgul, a photojournalist for AFP, was arrested at his home It was early morning on 23 March when the police came to Yasin Akgul’s door in Istanbul – while his children were still in bed. Just hours before, the Turkish photojournalist had returned home from covering mass anti-government protests. Now he was a...