Sunday, January 30, 2011

No Man Is An Island!


There lived a farmer who grew super-quality, award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won several honors and prizes.


Hearing about this successive award-winner, a newspaper reporter sought to interview him and learnt something interesting about how he grew his corn.


The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his best seed corn with his neighbors which astonished him.


"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors as they too enter in the same competition with your each year?" the reporter asked.


"Why sir, "said the farmer, "don't you know that the wind picks up pollen from the ripening corns and swirls it around from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior, sub-standard, poor quality corn, then cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn too. If I am to grow good corn, its imperative that I must help my neighbors grow good corn."


The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His good corn cannot thrive unless his neighbor's corn improves.


It is so in all known dimensions. Those who wish to be in harmony must help their neighbors and colleagues to be at peace. Those who choose to live well should help others to lead a good life.


The value of life is measured by the number of lives it touches.

Success cannot happen in isolation.


It is very often a collaborative, collective and inclusive process.

Share your possessions, good practices, ideas, knowledge and information with your family, team members and neighbors.


No man is an island.


Thank you and enjoy the rest of your week-end.


Love,


Prof. Dr. Alex Abraham Odikandathil

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Are We Killing Ourselves with Cleanliness?


As the number of allergy sufferers soar, potential cures are more radical.
Alternative theories abound on why developed countries have such high rates of allergic reactions.

In a Boston hospital, people are eating whipworm eggs.

Too small to see, they're swigged in cups of tasteless, odorless clear liquid. Once swallowed, they lodge in the gut and produce larvae. They're parasites, known clinically as Trichuris suis. Are they the next big thing in allergy relief?

Pathologist Marie-Helene Jouvin, who launched this study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with allergist/immunologist Mariana Castells, hopes they are: and the sooner the better, as allergy rate is soaring these days. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of young people with food allergies soared nearly 20 percent in the last decade. Eight percent of children under six now have food allergies. The number of adults with allergies has risen too.

The Boston worm study stems from a scientific hot potato called the hygiene hypothesis, which holds that growing up in developed nations enfeebles our immune systems. When it's not constantly battling dangerous bacteria, "the immune system doesn't know what to fight against," Jouvin says, "so it fights against stuff that isn't supposed to be dangerous, like food.

"As the human immune system matures, normally it learns how to differentiate what is not dangerous from what is dangerous. If you raise children in too clean an environment, this distinction is missing."

In other words, we're killing ourselves with cleanliness.

Allergies are far more common in rich nations than in poor ones. Hygiene hypothesists believe that's because people in poor countries are riddled with parasites.

Studies in Africa and South America have tested groups of parasite-infected people and found them to have few or no allergies. These people were then treated with vermifuges. Once they became parasite-free, they developed allergies, Jouvin says.

"We don't know precisely how it works, but parasites have developed this very fine mechanism that allows them to survive in a host's body without killing the host and without the host killing them. The presence of parasites in the body acts on the immune system and somehow avoids an allergic reaction."

Because Trichuris suis flourishes in pigs' bodies but not human ones, the larvae that hatch after the eggs are ingested never fully mature in human subjects, who thus never become infected. The Boston study won't be completed for another few years; if it succeeds, FDA approval would be sought for Trichuris suis ova, aka, TSO.

"The eggs are the medicine," Jouvin says. "It's very easy, a clear liquid. You just drink it."

"This idea that you can infect yourself with these things so that your immune system gets too tied up with parasites to worry about allergens" is gaining traction, "but it's very radical," says allergist Andrew Engler, director of the Allergy and Asthma Clinic in San Mateo, California.

It's not as radical as the remedy that integrative-medicine guru Andrew Weil aired at the Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century conference in San Jose last April. Having been terribly allergic to cats all his life, Weil took LSD one day at age 28. While he was tripping, a cat jumped into his lap. For a split second, Weil froze. Just being near cats had always made his eyes itch and his nose run. If cats licked him, he'd always broken out in painful hives. But not this time: "I started petting the cat. I began playing with the cat. The cat licked me. I had no reaction to the cat. I have never had a reaction to a cat since - and that was almost 40 years ago. Now, that's pretty special. As a physician, I would love to know what happened there, and I would love to know how to make that happen for other people."

The medical community isn't investing tons of time or money in the wider applications of LSD. Nor does it consider acid - or anything else - an allergy cure. Symptom-soothers flood the market. Desensitization studies involving peanuts and insect venom offer hope, but nothing has yet been clinically proven to render once-allergic human bodies no longer allergic.

Thank you and enjoy the rest of your week,
Love,
Prof. Dr. Alex Abraham Odikandathil

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.


Keith Olbermann Announces Abrupt Departure From MSNBC: 'Countdown' to End.


News Breaking about the breaking!

More detail will undoubtedly follow, but for now, all we know is that Olbermann announced his departure on tonight's show. He didn't give any reason.

MSNBC announced on Friay night that its marquee "Countdown" anchor and talk show host Keith Olbermann is out. The network did not provide a reason for his abrupt departure.

"MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract. The last broadcast of 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC's success and we wish him well in his future endeavors," NBC Universal said in a statement.

Olbermann and his bosses have clashed in recent months. He was suspended in November for two days after revelations that he gave donations to a Democratic political candidate, which was a violation of the company's ethics policies for news employees.

More from the AP:

"This may be the only television program where the host was much more in awe of the audience than vice versa," Keith said. He thanked a series of people, including the late Tim Russert, but pointedly not Griffin or NBC News President Steve Capus.

Olbermann's prime-time show is the network's top-rated. His evolution from a humorous look at the day's headlines into a pointedly liberal show in the last half of George W. Bush's administration led MSNBC to largely shift the tone of the network in his direction, with the hiring of Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell for primetime.

MSNBC has announced the new shuffle of its schedule:

Lawrence O'Donnell's show now starts at 8 p.m EST. Rachel Maddow will stay in her regular slot at 9 p.m. The Ed Show" with Ed Schultz will air at 10 p.m.

Has it got something to do with WikiLeaks and its hero, Julian Assange?

Speculating.. but something is the rotten in the state of Denmark.

Thank you,

Love,

Prof. Dr. Alex Abraham Odikandathil

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The dismantling of motherhood, as we know it, is no more a paranoid futuristic fantasy.

Its here:

Wealthy Women Fanning Out Birth and Childrearing Responsibilities to the Poor..

Is Motherhood as we knew it, already over?

If you’ve read much science-fiction, you’re probably familiar with the idea that, at some scary point in the future, the various aspects of mothering will be separated, enabling wealthy women to farm out the component tasks to less privileged women. The Globalization of Motherhood: Deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care (Routledge, 2010) makes it clear that the day is already here. With a focus on cross-border movement in the areas of domestic labor, adoption, and assisted reproduction, the book shows that the individual tasks that used to be bundled as motherhood have been dispersed to women scattered throughout the world and stratified by race and class. The dismantling of motherhood as we once knew it is no longer a paranoid futuristic fantasy, but rather a mostly dystopic reality.

The collection of academic essays edited by Wendy Chavkin and JaneMaree Maher, professors, respectively of public health and women’s studies, lays out a big, breathtaking picture that’s most startling in its details. Take the Indian town of Anand in Gujarat, once famous for its dairy cooperative, which is now the “global surrogacy capital.” Or simply consider that women across India now collectively earn more than $450 million per year as gestational surrogates. Then there’s the fact that a Sri Lankan domestic worker considers the facility where she leaves her child while she cares for another family in Athens to be a “boarding school,” while Western parents interested in adopting children from that institution understand it to be an “orphanage.” And the complicated emotional reality of a young woman, born to Ethiopian parents and adopted by a Swedish couple, which reunites with her biological parents as an adult and decides that, “It doesn’t matter that we have been away from them for more than 20 years, because they gave birth to us and we are their children.” Or the Thai clinic’s website, which offers visitors this greeting: “Welcome to IVF Thailand: Combining a great holiday with IVF!” The anecdotes beg repeating as windows onto this bizarre moment, when technologies are seeping into the globalized world in advance of much planning or regulation.

Some of the most memorable stories emerge in a chapter about couples who travel to and through Dubai as “reproductive tourists.” In one example, a Syrian woman who had come from Lebanon for fertility treatment worries about having a Hindu, as opposed to a Muslim doctor, even as she has a child in the care of a Filipina (non-Muslim) nanny. In another, a Sunni Muslim couple goes to Beirut (where there is a Shia majority) for egg donation, since that practice – along with sperm donation, embryo donation and gestational surrogacy, has been banned by a fatwa in Sunni-dominated Muslim countries.The couple then seeks the eggs of a mid-Western, white American because, as the father-to-be explains it, “I want a white baby to look like me.”

The Globalization of Motherhood (an academic text, which with a cover price of $125, is likely to be most widely read in the classroom), does a great service in documenting these stories, which remain largely unexplored in the mainstream media. In the end, though, the book’s greater contribution is discerning patterns and significance among such intriguing specifics. The bigger picture that emerges is one of new technologies generally exacerbating existing global inequities, with privileged women often relying on less-privileged women for their reproductive services, body parts, and labor (both in the traditional and child-bearing sense). Together, the essays make the disturbing case that the progress of women in developed countries has been made possible, in part, by the services, or perhaps exploitation, of other groups of women.

But, the sociologists, lawyers, demographers and social theorists contributing to this volume largely stay away from blame, instead describing and dispassionately analyzing the global trends that have led women in the developed world into their particular relationship with motherhood. Chavkin’s introductory essay is especially helpful on this front, pulling out the structural forces that have led many women to delay childbearing – and have thus brought on the “fertility crisis” that’s spawned the growth of international surrogacy and reproductive tourism. Among these, she lists “the pressure on women in advanced economies to obtain education and secure employment first; the shortage of housing and social supports for young couples, the delay, the decline and the precariousness of marriage.”

None of these facts of modern, developed life will be reversed any time soon. Nor should anyone expect the technologies that have shaped the new globalized motherhood to go back into their bags. Instead, we’ll have to use existing international human rights tools to address the injustices that have sprung up in the process - a strategy Joanne Csete and Reilly Anne Willis smartly outline in their chapter. Before that can happen, though, we’ll need a full and nuanced understanding of the problem. Luckily, The Globalization of Motherhood has already achieved that critical first step.

Thank you and enjoy the rest of your week-end.

Love,

Prof. Dr. Alex Abraham Odikandathil

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

How to face death due to heart attack.



Let's say it's 6.15 p.m. and you're going home (alone of course),
after an unusually hard day on the job.

You're really tired, upset and frustrated...

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your
chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up
into your jaw. You are only about five miles from the
hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't
know if you'll be able to make it that far. You may have
been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the
course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

How To Survive A Heart Attack When You Are Alone.

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart
attack, the person whose heart is beating irregularly or
improperly and who begins to faint has only about 10
seconds left before losing consciousness.

However, these victims can help themselves by coughing
repeatedly and vigorously. A deep breath should be taken
before each cough, and the cough must be deep and
prolonged.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two
seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart
is found to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths provide oxygen into the lungs and coughing
will squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps regain
normal rhythm of heart beat. In this way, heart attack
victims can get to a hospital or survive until help arrives.

This little knowledge may help you or another have an extra lease of life..

Thank you and enjoy the rest of your week.

Love,

Prof. Dr. Alex Abraham Odikandathil

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Team Work


This is a powerful message to the modern society at a time when we seem to have lost our sense of direction... especially those little people who have a little power.

The narration goes like this:

An young, academically bright person went to apply for a managerial position in a famous company.

He passed the first interview, the director himself did the final interview...

The director discovered from his resume that the youth's academic achievements were excellent all the way,
from the secondary school level until postgraduate research- never was there an year when he did not outperform.


The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarships in school?"

The youth answered, "None".

The director asked, "Was it your father who paid for your tuition?"

The youth answered, "My father passed away when I was a one- year- old, it was my mother who paid for my school fees."

The director asked, "What does your mother do for a living?"

The youth answered, "My mother works as a clothes cleaner.

The director then requested the youth to show his hands. The youth showed a pair of hands that were smooth and perfect.

The director asked again, "Have you ever helped your mother wash clothes" The youth answered, "Never, my mother
always wanted me to study and read more books. Further, my mother could wash clothes faster than me."

And the director said, "I have a request. When you go back today, go and clean your mother's hands and then see me tomorrow morning."

So when he went back, he requested his mother to let him clean her hands.

His mother felt strange, and with mixed feelings, extended her hands.

The youth cleaned his mother's hands slowly. Tears flowed down his cheeks as he did so...

It was the first time he noticed that his mother's hands were so wrinkled and there were so many bruises in her hands. Some bruises were so painful that his mother cried when they were cleaned.

This was the first time the youth realized that it was this pair of hands that washed the clothes everyday to enable him to pay the school fee. The bruises in the mother's hands were the price that the mother had to pay for his graduation, academic excellence and his future.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother's hands, the youth quietly washed all the remaining clothes.

That night, the mother and son talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went back to the director's office.

The Director noticed tears in the youth's eyes and asked:

"Can you tell me what you have done or learned yesterday?"

The youth answered, " I cleaned my mother's hands;
also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes".

The Director asked, " please tell me your feelings about it."

The youth said:

Number 1: Now I know what appreciation means. In the absence of my mother, there would not have been the successful me today.

Number 2: In trying to help my mother only did I realize how difficult and tough it is to get things done.

Number 3: I have come to appreciate the importance and value of family relationship.

The director said, "These are exactly the qualities I am looking for in my manager.
I want to recruit a person who can appreciate help rendered by others, a person who knows the sufferings of others to get things done, and a person who would not put money as his only goal in life. You are hired."

Later on, under his leadership every employee worked diligently as a team.

The company's performance improved tremendously and continuously......

A child, who has been protected and habitually given whatever he wants,
would develop an 'entitlement mentality' and would always put himself first.

He would be ignorant about his parent's efforts or hardships. When he starts work, he assumes that every person must listen to him.

And when he administers,

he would never know the sufferings of his employees or appreciate their good work.

These people may be successful for a short while but will eventually fail due to the disgust of the employees.

He will grumble and will be full of hatred and will finally collapse under pressure. You will find these people in all work places, whether colleges or factories.

So the most important quality of a 'person in charge' is to appreciate the effort and hard work others put in and to achieve the ability to work with others to get things done in a timely fashion: what is well-known in modern management as the concept of 'TEAM WORK'.

Thank you and enjoy the rest of your week-end,

Love,

Prof. Dr. Alex Abraham Odikandathil


Saturday, January 8, 2011

Hey, get rid of your in-law.


Once upon a time in China, a girl named Lu-Li got married and went to live
with her husband and mother-in-law. In a very short time, Lu-Li found that
she couldn’t get along with her mother-in-law, however she tries.

Their personalities were quite different, and Lu-Li was angered by many of her
mother-in-law’ s habits. In addition, she criticized Lu-Li for any and all reasons.

Days passed, then weeks.
But Lu-Li and her mother-in-law never stopped arguing and fighting.

Still what made the situation worse was that according to ancient Chinese
tradition, Lu-Li had to bow to her mother-in-law and obey her every wish.
All the anger and unhappiness in the house was causing Lu-Li’s husband
great distress, to the point of frustration and even depression...

Finally, Lu-Li could not withstand her mother- in- law’s bad temper
and dictatorship any longer and she decided to do something about it..
She turned to her father’s good friend, Mr. Chuang who sold herbs for a living.

She told him the situation and asked if he would give her some poison so that
she could solve the problem for once and all.

Mr. Chuang thought for awhile, and finally said, "Lu-Li, I will help you solve
your problem, but you must listen to me and obey every word I tell you".

Lu-Li said, "Yes, Mr. Chuang, I will do whatever you tell me to do.”
Mr. Chuang went into an ante-room and returned in a few minutes with a
package of herbs. He told Lu-Li, "You can’t use a quick-acting poison to
get rid of your mother-in-law because that would cause people to become
suspicious. Therefore, I have given you a number of herbs that will slowly
build up poison in her body. Every other day prepare some delicious meal and
put a little of these herbs in her serving. Now, in order to make sure that nobody
suspects you when she ultimately dies, you must act very friendly towards her.
Don’t argue with her, obey all her wishes and treat her like a queen."
Lu-Li felt immensely happy.

She thanked Mr. Chuang and hurried home to begin the process of murdering
her mother-in-law.

Weeks went by, then months and every other day, Lu-Li served the specially
treated food to her mother-in-law. She remembered what Mr. Chuang had said
about avoiding suspicion.. she controlled her temper, obeyed her mother-in-law,
and treated her like her own mother.

After six months, the whole household changed. Lu-Li had practiced controlling
her temper to the extent of never getting mad or upset. She hadn’t had an argument
with her mother-in-law for six months because she now seemed to be much kinder
and easier to get along with. In short, she was successful in managing her anger.

The mother-in-law's attitude towards Lu-Li changed too, and she began to love her
like her own daughter. She kept telling friends and relatives that Lu-Li was the best
daughter-in- law one could ever find. Lu-Li and her mother-in-law were now treating
each other like mother and daughter, on the way realizing the worth of self-respect.

Lu-Li’s husband was over-joyed to see what was happening.
It was yet another day when Lu-Li came to see Mr. Chuang again and asked for his
help one more time. She pleaded, "Dear Mr. Chuang, please help me to prevent that
poison from killing my dear mother-in-law. She’s changed into such a nice woman,
I love her like my own mother. She shall not die!"

Mr. Huang smiled and nodded his head. "Lu-Li, there’s nothing to worry about. I never
gave you any poison. The herbs I gave you were vitamins to improve her health. The
poison was in your mind - it was in your attitude towards her but that has all been
washed away with the love you lavished on her. Go home peacefully."

Do you realize that you will be treated the same way you treat others?
There is another famous Chinese saying:
"The person who loves others will be loved in return.”
God might be trying to work in another person’s life through you...
Hence spread the POWER OF LOVE.

Thank you and enjoy the rest of your week-end,
Love,
Prof. Dr. Alex Abraham Odikandathil

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Bonhomie, Luv Ya, Peace!
Feel free to visit my web site at http://www.alexodikandathil.blogspot.com

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Hypocrisy!


Earlier this month, audio tapes from the Nixon White House were revealed to the public that captured a shocking exchange between Nixon and the then Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger. In the tapes, Kissinger responds to an appeal made by Israeli leader Golda Meir to Soviet leaders to allow the emigration of Russian Jews to her country. He tells Nixon that the “emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”

Since these comments were revealed to the public, there has been an uproar in the media, with the New York Times writing that the tapes showed that Kissinger was “brutally dismissive” of human rights concerns related to Soviet Jews.

The former secretary of state has gone on a media offensive, attempting to save his public image among the media furor. In an op-ed piece published Sunday, Kissinger wrote that he was sorry he “made that remark 37 years ago,” and argued that it was taken out of context. Curiously, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman, while condemning the comments, also rose to Kissinger’s defense, saying, “I think what Kissinger said is horrendous, offensive, painful, but also I’m not willing to judge him. The atmosphere in the Nixon White House was one of bigotry, prejudice, anti-Semitism.” David Harris of the American Jewish Committee offered a similar defense: “Perhaps Kissinger felt that, as a Jew, he had to go the extra mile to prove to the president that there was no question of where his loyalties lay.”

But what both the press that is reporting about Kissinger’s comments and what his most passionate defenders are omitting is that these revealed remarks are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the former secretary of state’s complicity in human rights violations. The mentality revealed in his remarks about Soviet Jews are not an aberration but a major feature of his approach to foreign policy: disregarding human rights in pursuit of other strategic goals. Kissinger has a long history of complicity in major human rights abuses in every corner of the globe, one that is rarely reported on in the press in its reports on the former secretary of state. Here are just a few of these abuses:

  • Bangladesh: In 1971, Bangladesh, which was at the time East Pakistan, declared its independence from Pakistan. The Pakistani military responded with a brutal military campaign that included massive killings and the estimated systematic raping ofnearly 200,000 Bangladeshi women. When Daka Consul General Archer Blood and other American diplomatic staff began to protest the Pakistani army’s behavior to Washington, Nixon and Kissinger had him dismissed. During the height of the atrocities, Kissinger sent a message to Pakistan General Yahya Khan, congratulating him on his “delicacy and tact” in his military campaigns in Bangladesh. When Kissinger received word that massive famines were going to spring up in the country in 1971, he warned USAID to try to avoid helping, saying that Bangladesh was “not necessarily our basket case.” Soon after becoming secretary of state, Kissinger downgraded the American diplomatic staff who had signed onto a protest of Pakistani atrocities in 1971.

  • Cambodia: Kissinger was one of the chief masterminds of the Nixon administration’s secret and illegal bombing campaign of Cambodia — he wanted the bombing of “anything that flies, on anything that moves” and warned that it must be secretly done to avoid congressional scrutiny — the extent of which was not discovered until President Bill Clinton declassified related documents in 2000. By the end of the American bombing campaign of Cambodia, the country was perhaps the “most heavily bombed country in history.” The bombings killed more than a half a million people, and were a major factor in the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge.

  • Chile: In 1973, Kissinger aided and abetted a right-wing military faction that deposed the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. The faction then installed the dictator General Augusto Pinochet, who went on to torture and/or murder tens of thousands of peaceful dissidents in the country. “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its people,” Kissinger said in rationalizing his actions, falsely accusing Allende of being a communist and essentially declaring that the United States should have the power to decide Chile’s government. Due to his complicity in bringing Pinochet to power, Kissinger was summoned for questioning and has arrest warrants out in his name in Chile, Argentina, and France. Since the warrants were issued he has not returned to any of those three countries.

  • Indonesia and East Timor: In 1975, President Gerald Ford and Kissinger met with Indonesian’s leader, General Suharto. During the meeting, Ford and Kissinger essentially gave “full approval” to Suharto to invade neighboring East Timor. In the resulting invasion, hundreds of thousands of Timorese civilians were massacred. Kissinger repeatedly denied that he had such conversations with Suharto, but these denials were found to be false after the declassification of government documents in2001.

  • Iraq: In 1975 Kissinger both encouraged a Kurdish revolt against Saddam Hussein and then abandoned the rebels to be killed following invocations from the Shah of Iran. Bob Woodward’s book State of Denial revealed that Kissinger was a major Iraq policy advisor to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. He warned Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson of the same analogy he used during the Vietnam years, that troop withdrawals would be like “salted peanuts to the American public; the more U.S. troops come home, the more will be demanded.” Woodward writes that when Gerson asked Kissinger why he supported the war, he replied, “Because Afghanistan wasn’t enough,’ … In the conflict with radical Islam, he said, they want to humiliate us. ‘And we need to humiliate them’ … In Manhattan, this position got him into trouble, particularly at cocktail parties, he noted with a smile.”

  • Vietnam: Kissinger, in a possible violation of the Logan Act, helped scuttle peace talks in 1968, prolonging the Vietnam War to advantage Richard Nixon in the presidential election. This extension of the war cost thousands of American lives and those of more than a million people in Indochina.

Viewed within the context of Kissinger’s actions while he was a senior official in multiple American administrations, his comments about Soviet Jews are hardly surprising. Unfortunately, most of the major media’s reporting about Kissinger’s comments does not include this history of complicity in human rights abuses.

In fact, despite his complicity in these abuses, the former secretary of state continues to be a lauded public figure in India and abroad. He is regularly uncritically featured on major news programs, was recently honored at the American State Department, and was even cast as a cartoon character’s voice on a children’s TV show. If history is any judge, this latest revelation about Kissinger will soon be forgotten by major media and elites in the public sphere. But that does not change the actual facts and Kissinger’s long, sordid history of complicity in human rights abuses.
Enjoy the rest of your week,
Love,
Prof. Dr. Alex Abraham Odikandathil