Guruprasad Kulkarni

🍉 Humanist first, then comes the rest 🍉
Views are my own and don't represent anyone else.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

An oil tanker heading towards Iran was struck by a US missile.

24 Indian workers were rescued.

Had it not been for Al Jazeera, we would never have known about it.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Israelis attack the director of the Israeli human rights organization "Peace Now", Lior Amichai, in the West Bank.

This is not a civilised society.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Google Chrome 150 marks the end of full support for Manifest V2 extensions, effectively removing the remaining workarounds that allowed the original uBlock Origin to continue functioning in Chrome.

Starting with Chrome 150 (expected in late June 2026), Google will complete its transition from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3. This means the powerful webRequestBlocking API used by advanced extensions will no longer be available for normal Chrome extensions.

As a result, the original uBlock Origin will no longer work at full strength in Chrome. It relies on Manifest V2’s ability to inspect and block requests in real time.

Under Manifest V3, extensions must use declarativeNetRequest, which requires them to rely on predefined filtering rules instead of dynamic blocking. This improves security and performance according to Google, but it also limits what ad blockers can do, especially against complex ads and trackers on sites like YouTube.

The developer of uBlock Origin offers uBlock Origin Lite, a Manifest V3 version that still provides ad blocking but with the restrictions imposed by Chrome. Other ad blockers have also released Manifest V3 versions with similar limitations.

Users who want the full power of the original uBlock Origin can switch to Firefox, which continues to support Manifest V2 extensions, or use Brave, which includes built-in ad and tracker blocking.

Google has been gradually rolling out this change since 2024, and Chrome 150 marks the final step in that transition.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Amnesty International drops a massive report confirming the Israeli government is actively funding and directing ethnic cleansing in the
West Bank.

They expose how the state uses soldiers as rogue settlers to systematically erase entire Palestinian villages.

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

On the day Narendra Modi celebrated a bogus landmark—and world leaders took advantage of his renowned and embarrassing susceptibility to flattery by getting staffers to draft tweets congratulating him—the US military killed three Indian sailors in a deliberate attack on a civilian ship.

Ships with Indian sailors were attacked the day before, and have been attacked again today.

This is the reality of the ‘comprehensive global strategic partnership’ with the US that Modi looks forward to working on—where the US does whatever it wants, including killing Indian nationals on the high seas or territorial waters of sovereign countries, or telling India whom it can and can’t buy oil from, and god knows what else, and Modi bows down and accepts it all.

You know what emboldened the US military? The fact that the previous day, it attacked a ship and placed 24 Indians in harm’s way and Modi’s officials were busy justifying the US action instead of condemning it.

Now that Indian soldiers have been killed, the MEA is going through the motions of summoning a US diplomat to protest but it knows full well that this is an empty gesture, meant to cover their tracks with the Indian public. The official MEA statement is unwilling to even name the country which killed the Indian sailors.

This is not the first time that Modi and @DrSJaishankar have behaved in such a craven fashion. When the Israeli military killed Col Waibhav Kale—a retired Indian Army officer working for the UN—in Gaza in 2024, there was no condemnation of this by the Modi government.

4400 days of ghulami, and counting.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

A New York Times investigation finds the United States struck two drinking water facilities in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. The report employed satellite imagery and video analysis.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

I'm sure we are all surprised to discover that the Israeli army flagrantly lied, once again, about what happened when its soldiers committed their latest atrocity: shooting dead a baby.

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

A cow suffering from Listeriosis disease was circling a field for 8 days

The villager instead of taking it to a veterinarian for treatment,started worshiping it like a God,applying tilak,doing aarti & kissing its body

No wonder the BJP wins elections by invoking religion & Cow

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

The award-winning historian Elizabeth Thompson, interviewed by @BeirutCalling :

"My first hypothesis is that the investigation of why the Arab world lacks democracy today must start with the extension of European colonization after World War I, not Islamic culture or the behavior of particular dictators since independence.

Second, a related takeaway is to ask new questions about the rise of authoritarian, violent, and religiously radical movements in the region. My current research explores the ways in which such movements were empowered after the violent destruction of democratic movements after World War I. This puts modern Middle Eastern political history in the same analytical frame of studies examining the rise of anti-liberal, anti-democratic movements in Europe during the same period."

Overall, a rich and fascinating interview.
https://t.co/wm9Doy1W98

[The Intercept @theintercept]

One top military officer provided a plausible explanation, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, The Intercept has learned. In the briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Nothing to see here, just Israel using a Palestinian quite literally as a human shield.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Imagine advertising luxury villas in Nazi Germany during Holocaust. That's the level of tone-deaf we're witnessing

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Let’s stop calling it settler violence. It is settler TERROR. These criminals roam the West Bank with impunity, and the world stays silent.

[Hala Jaber @HalaJaber]

Netanyahu asks Lebanese if they remember the days when Lebanon was called the “Pearl of the Middle East.”

We do.

We also remember who invaded Lebanon in 1982, besieged Beirut, occupied the south for nearly two decades, bombed our cities, carried out massacres, assassinations & repeated wars.

Interesting how Hezbollah is blamed for everything, including Lebanon’s decline, while the Israeli invasion, occupation & destruction that predated Hezbollah’s very existence are simply erased from the story.

Hezbollah did not invade Lebanon. Israel did.

Hezbollah did not create the occupation. Hezbollah emerged because of it.

You also speak as though Hezbollah is not Lebanese. Whether one supports it or opposes it, Hezbollah represents a significant segment of Lebanese society. It has MPs in parliament, ministers in government, & a constituency that cannot simply be wished out of existence. Millions of Lebanese cannot be erased because that makes for a more convenient Israeli political narrative.

The arrogance of telling Lebanese to “free themselves” from other Lebanese while Israeli forces occupy Lebanese territory & Israeli aircraft violate Lebanese airspace daily is difficult to miss.

You speak as though Lebanon’s problems began with Hezbollah & Iran. That is historically illiterate at best & deliberately dishonest at worst.

Lebanon has suffered from corruption, sectarianism, foreign intervention & political failure. But it has also endured repeated Israeli invasions, occupations, bombardments, assassinations & wars long before Hezbollah became a major force.

And now the man whose military has spent months bombing Lebanese towns, flattening homes, killing civilians, displacing entire communities & threatening the country with “another Gaza” wants to present himself as a concerned friend of the Lebanese people.

The audacity is staggering. It would be impressive were it not so grotesque. The historical revisionism is even worse.

You must be getting desperate if this is the story you are trying to sell.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years."

Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan.

The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people.

So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state.

Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (https://t.co/WLoDpGzc2W).

Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause.

It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (https://t.co/2SnUNevFbX).

The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years.

But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight.

This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this.

Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water."

Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (https://t.co/GBgBybBPoE). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China.

In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence.

Src for screenshot: https://t.co/qav4muNkij

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a widely respected doctor held without charge since December 2024.

There is no civilized system of justice that allows for the imprisoning of people indefinitely without charge. He is a hostage, his crime was writing an oped for the New York Times.

[Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳 @mshahi0024]

Oh bhai..😭😭

Today I was watching Dhurandhar-2 in Hotstar and burst out laughing.

Humza informs that ₹60,000 crore fake currency is coming for the UP elections.

So our Great Visionary leader immediately takes action and announces Demonetisation.

Meanwhile, just a few seconds later, Humza burns all the fake currency.

Bhai, jab burn hi kar diya tha, toh Demonetisation karke desh ki GDP growth 8.5% se 4% kyun gira di?

Meanwhile,1% GDP loss is roughly ₹2.5 lakh crore.

UP Corruption free ho gaya..

Mandir tak mein Ghotale ho rahe hai..

🤣🤣🤣

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: "Greater Israel" is now marketed in London. Like in Montreal and in New York.
Apartheid without borders.

P.S. This explains why criticism of Israel is being restricted (and "anti-antisemitism" laws keep appearing). Apartheid is not only a crime. It is a business model.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

This is one of the most heart-wrenching videos I have ever seen. It shows the immediate aftermath of an Israeli soldier shooting a 7-month old Palesinian baby in the head, stealing his life.

It shows that the car with the Palestinian family had stopped. Yet the Israelis shot.

The father is holding his infant son in his arms as he bleeds to death from the shot to his head. It tears you apart.

This is the daily life of Palestinians under Israel's US-supported occupation.

You never know when you will be shot in the head. It can happen any time, for any reason.

And the world approves.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Video from a court in Jerusalem shows Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya appearing by video link and attempting to speak with his lawyer before Israeli court security blocked the screen and cut the connection, preventing journalists from filming.

His attorney repeatedly told the court he could neither see nor hear Abu Safiya after the video feed was cut, saying his captors had “turned off the camera,” further fueling concerns over the imprisoned Gaza doctor’s treatment after he appeared emaciated and bore apparent signs of physical abuse.