An article by Freny Manecksha on torture in Kashmir. One needn’t be a militant or a stone pelter to be arrested, brutally tortured or murdered in Kashmir by the occupying army. Qalandar Khatana is a double leg amputee due to torture sustained in prison for no identified crime.

https://thewire.in/147135/legs-cut-off-and-forced-into-begging-kashmir-man-recounts-severe-torture-by-security-forces/

What happened that Oliver Stone has completely lost his marbles over Putin? Stone has the resources to investigate the political character of Putin & the political conditions in Russia which are massively repressive. That makes his sycophancy entirely willful & from the point of view of Russian working people, utterly detestable.

His kid Sean is no better as a moderator on RT & ardent Assadist who interviews paid Assad propagandists like Eva Bartlett & know-nothing honoraria hounds like Rania Khalek for insight into Syria.

Their problem is not a lack of critical judgement but that in their political minds it is strong leaders who matter & make social change, regardless of their brutality, & not working people. The Stalinist & Maoist, the pro-Cuba & Venezuela movements are based on such groveling to power, an unseemly phenomenon which requires analysis. Exactly what is the appeal of kissing ass? The answers may lie more in class psychology than politics.

Haven’t watched the Putin interviews by Oliver Stone but this is an article I wrote on Sean Stone’s interview with Khalek on RT:

https://www.maryscullyreports.com/sean-stone-interviews-rania-khalek-a-confederacy-of-assadist-dunces/

Buckingham Palace is scheduled for a £369 million (US $472 million) refurbishment. The maintenance is bankrolled by taxpayers rather than the indolent Windsor clan. There is a backlog of necessary repairs like outdated wiring & leaks in the roof & the state rooms have not been redecorated since 1952.

Bankrolling the moochocracy is one reason there was no fire alarm or sprinkler system in Grenfell Towers. Neoliberal austerity economics are the double whammy for working people.

That’s why they don’t know the death toll, can’t identify all the bodies, & people are still looking for their loved ones.
When such a catastrophe happened to the Twin Towers in NYC nearly 16 years ago, the US started bombing Afghanistan in retaliation. What do the Windsor clan & British government suggest should be done now?

(Photo by Paul Hackett/Reuters)

Rapper Lowkey as cogent on the Grenfell inferno as he is on Palestinian justice:

https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/875667446677610497