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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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Over the past year, the United States has provided Israel with a record $17.9 billion in military aid as it commits genocide against Palestinians. 10 October 2024 Ayman Baalbaki (Lebanon), Untitled, 2020. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 1 October, US Representative Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign…
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Challenge Magazine Today marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest and most influential socialist nation. Prior to the founding of the PRC, China had suffered through the ‘Century of National Humiliation.’ Foreign powers seized… vast amounts of Chinese territory and drove the Qing government into immense…
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Dear friend, 1978. 1982. 2006. 2024. Once again Israeli military forces muster to the North, preparing to invade Lebanon. On Wednesday, Herzi Halevi, the head of Israel’s military, set out the plan to his troops in plain terms. “Your military boots,” he said, “will enter enemy territory.” And on Saturday, Israel warplanes assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of…
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by Jingyi Zhang (Sep 01, 2024) Topics: Capitalism Feminism Inequality Marxism Political Economy Places: Asia India Jingyi Zhang is a PhD student at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. Smitha Radhakrishnan, Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022), 272 pages, $27.95, paperback. Microfinance has become a salient sector for poverty reduction in the developing world since its inception in the…
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