Reality Check: Is Japan committed to peace under PM Sanae Takaichi? In her #UNGA81# speech, PM Takaichi claims Japan to be a “contributor to peace” under its “exclusively defense-oriented” policy. The Reality under the current Japanese administration: ⚫️a constant denial and glorification of Japan’s wartime history ⚫️a series of moves to rebuild Japan’s war machine ⚫️acceleration of remilitarization ⚫️attempts to discard the three non-nuclear principles ⚫️attempts to revise the pacifist Constitution A true peace-loving nation with a war-crime past would repent over history and make a clean break with militarism. Time for the Takaichi administration to stop challenging the postwar order and jeopardizing the region’s peace and stability.

Reality is stranger than we think. | Philosophers try to tame its paradoxes, but as Eric Schwitzgebel argues, the deeper we dig, the weirder it gets. Even materialism hides monsters.

REALITY CHECK: last remaining Bofors case dismissed by the courts. So after 40 years, N0 major political figure or prime accused ever jailed in the Rs 64-crore Bofors pay-off scandal that cost Rajiv Gandhi his govt and haunted the Cong for years. Another ‘feather in the cap’ of our ‘premier’ investigative agency CBI! 😡