There’s this grand mythology of the US VC model as a uniquely unparalleled innovation engine but the reality is it was just harvesting DARPA R&D for commercial uses and only looked like it was the primary driver after the state backed part of America’s innovation system died.

Swamiji : We need to eat Cow dung everyday for good health... Anchor : Can you eat it now.. We brought some for you... Swamiji : 😭🤮

We were raided by the Israeli army and settlers last night. Here is what happened (and what it has to do with pseudoarcheology) 📍Tuwani, Masafer Yatta, Palestine

The rich don’t hide money. They hide ownership. The $100M mansion? A shell owns it. The $500M yacht? A trust in Panama. The cash? A foundation “hired” them to spend it. Here’s how the ultra-wealthy vanish millions and why no one can stop them:

🇨🇳 Students admitted to the Beijing University of Chemical Technology receive an admission letter made of a lightweight carbon fiber composite invented at the University. It's used in space launch vehicles and orbital stations. They like to celebrate by cutting up a watermelon.

🇨🇳🤝🇵🇰 Pakistani and Chinese scientists have teamed up to create a new hybrid rice seed, PU786, that can boost per-acre yields from 1,600kg to an impressive 5,600kg. Developed over ten years by Punjab University and Wuhan University and cleared by the Pakistan Agricultural

What could be more Turkish than this?

🚨Heartbreaking Moment: A child takes his final breaths after being critically wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Photojournalist Abd Abu Salama, who captured the scene, says: “I saw him through my lens… he didn’t move, didn’t cry, he just stared. A haunting stillness in

The second article of Iron Brothers series is out: I write about China-Pak relations during the Cold War. It was in this period that both countries learned lessons about the limits of ideological alignment and the importance of pragmatic statecraft. dunyadigital.co/columns/from-c…

bollywood quite literally exists to fulfill these kinds of fantasies

while starvation is used as a weapon in Gaza, imperial mouthpiece turning to Iran’s food sovereignty reveals their anxiety over failure to fully control circuits of life in Iran despite systemic efforts through war/sanctions/neoliberal sabotage to target agri knowledge & trade

PAF broke them

🇱🇧 Southern Beirut (Dahye) The streets are packed, roaring with defiance. A sea of bikes and bodies flooding Dahye sends one message: the resistance is not up for debate.

Of course one photo alone doesn't adequately capture women's representation in government, but it's a sad reality that women's parliamentary representation in Pakistan fell in the 24 election, in part because of multiple popular female candidates being rigged out of their seats.

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba says his country is going to discuss the recognition of Palestinian statehood.

As I have been saying for 30 years - people can laugh all they like, but they will have to face the truth eventually. In fact, they already are with the world they live in. 'Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world' - Arthur Schopenhauer.

When traveling abroad, I'm able to freely use positive Putin-themed GIFs on Whatsapp. But in Global South countries (including my own), Whatsapp pushes pro-Zelenskyy & pro-Biden GIFs on you when you search for "Putin" - & it does not allow you to search for happy images of him🥲

Words fail me at this inhumanity and devastation in Gaza. In the language of our Liturgy, I just cry out: Kyrie eleison Christe eleison Kyrie eleison

Very few people in the West understand how far ahead China really is. Every time I visit, I see a national project that is at the very threshold of history.

If China's development strategy in the 1990s followed the theory of comparative advantage, they wouldn't be making batteries, EVs, drones, AI chips, or robots today. China illustrates why successful economic development ultimately entails *defying* comparative advantage.