Meltdown

During this week the dynamics of Iran conflict as an operation not WAR unfolded. Military strategy, economic resources, regional/global implications, social and cultural dynamics, historical context, human and environmental costs, public opinion are factors. Assuming capabilities remain unchanged during wars is not advisable, it is a variable as war unfolds, re-calibration is critical. Keep in mind, there is no end game except shaking up the existing order from its foundations, as a possible most likely outcome. As this war despite its ramifications is an attempt to push a regular existing conflict( happened last year) zone for systemic shake up. It is a big factor. Big factor two : The shelf life of postures and deterrence available to regional powers has eroded and escalation by great power is the name of the game. The 'super' powers have the strategic wherewithal to breach the threshold of deterrence of lesser powers and have shown increasing inclination to do so. Location ...

Last post brought the google indexed pages from 40 + to single digit and then to zero. A break/glitch in Google search index was also reported during this duration.   Some supporters/readers were keen that other avenues and platforms is explored or pursued, the link toward that direction is pasted below:     abhibhayakti.substack.com/p/the-illusion-of-digital-inclusion   Migration post from the migrant?  Click, read, share, whatever!

Case : Whether Google holds a monopoly in the search(2020) and advertising markets( 2023)? Amit Mehta, Judge, Ruling : Google is a monopoly in the search antitrust case,  September 2023. Two years ago. The ruling  ordered remedies not a split. Remedies are behavioural and specific, not STRUCTURAL. Amit Mehta recommended other remedies, they are :  Google is largely banned from entering into exclusive default search engine agreements with browser developers like Apple and Mozilla. Order imposed restrictions on monopolistic consolidation. It must make it easier for users to switch their default search engine. It must provide more transparency and access to its ad tech tools for rivals . In the separate adtech Anti-trust case the trial began on September 9, 2024, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, with Judge Leonie Brinkema presiding. On April 17, 2025, Judge Brinkema ruled that Google is liable for  "willfully acquiring and maintaining...

Alasdair MacIntyre engaged with Marxism, Liberalism and Christianity. He has written books on these subjects. As a learner and thinker he was open towards available forms of thought and has an unique capability to influence modern ideas and thought. What a philosopher rejects, abandons or eschews should be read and discussed with what they profess and propound? Students, learners and followers were struck by his diagnosis of modernity, and his presentation of predicaments that spawned the emergence and expansion of modernity. The individual and individuality is central to the modern project. The modern relies and rests on individuals who have social roots. The ‘eking and carving’ out of an individual through volition, self-determination and agency severs and loosens the social roots and ties of modern individuals. There is no getting around or away from these modern predicaments. The deficiencies of individual rationality and prevalence of in-commensurable theories a failure of the e...

Once a war begins and hostilities and the hard military options pan out, the other avenues of pursuing interests, ensuring stability while maintaining an order based on principles remains active. Wars, at least immediately, do not bring peace. Once war ensues, a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities is the best bet and the immediate goal. Conflict and war in middle-east Iran-Israel do not share a border but their broader and immediate Geo-strategic interests and positions cast them as arch enemies and they had exchanged fire twice last year. It has been brewing for years, but the events of Friday the thirteenth were shocking and caught most by surprise, except of course Israel. A fragile and temporary ceasefire has somehow taken hold. The 1967 Arab-Israeli war lasted for 6 days and 1973 for 19 days, this round of conflict between Israel and Iran for 12 days. Emboldened by the success Israel has with Hezbollah and ongoing Gaza blockade,(tacit acceptance by world) Israel initiated a pl...