Sure. But normally a headline tells you who did what. That’s the point of a headline.

Active sentence construction is one of the first skills they teach in journalism.

“Carcinogens Cause Cancer in Cows” not something useless like “Cancer is Caused In Cows.”

“Settlers” isonly weird to you if you discount all the other times settler colonialists stole land and committed ethnic cleansing and genocide.

That country is sleepwalking into full fascism.

“Civil war” is a ridiculously polite way of putting it. It’s an attempted genocide.

He got the Peace Prize for his alliance with Eritrea, the North Korea of Africa.

He them teamed up with Eritrea to genocide some of his own countrymen in north Ethiopia.

Polio used to kill or paralyse about a million people a year. It is highly infectious and once you get it, it has no cure.

The world had almost suceeded in eradicating polio. It is easily preventable with vaccination. The fact that it is likely to be allowed to roam through the population of Gaza is disgusting.

Well that’s annoying. No more wearing Adidas.

Go ahead and make me pleasantly surprised.

Ah, the honeyed words of the local Sealion.

This part broke me.

“The dog attacked him, biting his chest and then his hand. Muhammed didn’t speak, only muttering ‘No, no, no.’ The dog bit his arm and the blood was shed. I wanted to get to him but I couldn’t. No-one could get to him, and he was patting the dog’s head saying, ‘enough my dear enough.’ In the end, he relaxed his hand, and the dog started tearing at him while he was bleeding.”

The Times also reported that doctors at the facility were instructed not to write their names on official documents or address each other by name in the presence of patients, for fear of being later identified and charged with war crimes at the International Criminal Court.

Thank you, I was not disappointed.

The gastrointestinal tract is a Hamas tunnel.

Peer review process? Also Hamas.

I look forward to watching the Hasbara trolls try to discredit one of the world’s leading STEM research journals.

No on both counts.

What part of “no matter who does it” did you not understand.

I’m embarassed for you.

I think arseholes are distributed evenly too.

If 5% of all people are arseholes, everywhere, then a country with 50 million people has 2.5 million arseholes. But a country with 1,428,000,000 people has over 71 million arseholes. This is why they seem to be over represented by the large nations.

You are right that we are more likely to notice them if they travel near us or communicate in a language we understand. This is why Estonians are more likely to think badly of Finns whereas South Africans are more likely to think badly of Nigerians.

Killing civilians doesn’t avenge anything, no matter who does it.

One of the largest countries in the world and a hell of a lot of ethnic diversity, so it’s hard to make generalizations. Kerala and, say, UP are very different. But here’s my attempt.

Geopolitically as an entity it’s currently suffering from some of the same things the world’s other largest countries (China, US, Indonesia) are suffering from - namely: populist leaders and a large group of poorly educated people in the population propping them up.

Consequently there is way too much militant nationalism and complacency about aggression towards other nations, territorialism, persecution of certain ethnic minorities, religious fundamentalism. All the biggest countries have those traits at the moment, so it’s not specifically a reflection on India.

In terms of resource and development it’s dealing with a similar situation to other ex colony LICs - years of resource exploitation left it with a low GDP per capita and consequently major challenges when it comes to provision of infrastructure (eg pollution management), health, education, living standards etc.

India has made huge strides in the past but the current wave of populism relies on leveraging social conflict (as it does elsewhere in the eorld) so I think that growth has slowed. For the same reason the fault lines along ethnic, religious, caste lines - which colonialism entrenched or deepened within the region - are still a big aspect.

My personal experiences with Indian people is that just like from anywhere else there are good and bad. Cultured, well educated people are easier to deal with because there is more shared knowledge. Statistically speaking, many of the world’s worst arseholes you are going to meet are going to be from India, China and the US, and that holds up.

I don’t think anyone is surprised. It was well known. It is surprising that the court made this ruling, though.

I like hypotheticals myself, but not when they are used to mislead.

Chiquita was the entity calling the shots and the death squads were killing and intimidating anyone who went against their commercial interests, including politicians.

For that reason, the hypothetical above reads like an attempt to pretend Chiquita was somehow a passive participant.

Speechless that two people have come in here to defend United Fruit Company/Chiquita for its well known use of death squads.

Remind me not to post about Nestlé.