Dilip Simeon's blog

Dear Readers Thank you for reading my blog for the past eleven years. (This is a link to the new one) During this time it has had nearly 1.7 million hits; and I have posted over 9500 posts covering a variety of themes. From July 11 to 19, 2022, my blog was withdrawn by the Blogger administration on account of what its machinery suspected to be 'Impersonation'. It took over a week and the efforts of several well-wishers to get it back online I thank them all for their kindness and goodwill  My blog has always been - and remains - non-commercial. I have used it for academic purposes; and to foster a culture of debate and informed commentary in civil society. Because it contains a large amount of material gathered and collated for over a decade, I cannot afford to lose its contents. I hope it will remain undisturbed now and function as an archive. However, I have decided to use a new blog on WordPress as a platform for my newest comments and posts The new blog is titled After the...

NB : The flag of 'freedom and democracy' is wearing a bit thin on Western shoulders. The list of criminal interventions on other countries + nuclear tests in the Pacific + war crimes is very long indeed. Vietnam (1963-75); Iran (1953); Bikini atoll and Marina islands; Chile (1973), Argentina (support of military dictators); wars in Iraq; long standing support for the apartheid regime in South Africa; support for Yahya Khans military genocide in Bangladesh (East Pakistan, 1970-71); the assassination of Mujibur Rehman - these a re just a few of the prominent examples. And their permanent alliance with the brutal Saudi Arabian regime shows that democracy is not exactly on top of their diplomatic agenda. As to the CIA involvement in the global heroin trade , the less said the better. Maybe the freedom to die of heroin addiction is included in the western list of liberties Meanwhile the totalitarian disdain for justice, human rights and truth has been exemplified by the Soviet (and ...

Dear friends and readers, m y blog is back online after having been invisible for 8 days. Here is why: On Monday July 11, I received a message - highlighted in green below - from the administrators of Blogger. Someone or some 'bot' discovered that I was impersonating myself (the message was sent to my email, and my blog is titled in my name). I responded as below, and sent a message to their support desk, which sent me a standard reply via another automaton. The 'review' link responded with an assurance of review within two days.  Hello, As you may know, our community guidelines ( https://blogger.com/go/ contentpolicy ) describe the boundaries for what we allow – and don't allow – on Blogger. Your blog entitled ' http://dilipsimeon.blogspot. com/ ' was flagged to us for review. We have determined that it violates our guidelines and have made the URL  http://dilipsimeon. blogspot.com/  unavailable to blog readers. Why was your blog removed? Your content has ...