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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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  • Death Is Optional

    A Conversation: Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Kahneman [3.4.15] Once you really solve a problem like direct brain-computer interface … when brains and computers can interact directly, that’s it, that’s the end of history, that’s the end of biology as we know it. Nobody has a clue what will happen once you solve this. If life can break out…

  • The Great Automatic Novelizer

    Posted on Thursday, Sep 19, 2024 7:00AM by Rebecca Baumgartner by Rebecca Baumgartner Carpets…chairs…shoes…bricks…crockery…anything you like to mention – they’re all made by machinery now. The quality may be inferior, but that doesn’t matter. It’s the cost of production that counts. And stories – well – they’re just another product, like carpets and chairs, and no one cares…

  • DEFEND DEMOCRACY PRESS

    Defend Democracy PressThe Newsletter of The Delphi Initiative Website Excerpts: League of Arab States strongly condemns Israeli attack on LebanonSep. 18, 2024 League of Arab States Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has strongly condemned the pager blast attack in Lebanon, which the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon announced was carried out by “Israel”. He also issued a warning about the potential for increased…

  • There Is Only One Night Left to Build Fortifications: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2024)

    Recent indications suggest that NATO may permit Ukraine to use Western-provided missiles to strike Russian territory. This would mark a serious escalation of the conflict. 19 September 2024 Niniko Morbedadze (Georgia), The Orange Clouds on the Boundary, 2018. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 13 September, at a conclave in…

  • Gaza, India, Bhagat Singh, and the right to violently rebel against imperial repression

    Filed: India  Nonviolence  Repression The Political Writings of Bhagat Singhby Chaman Lal and Michael D. Yates$26.00 / 978-1-68590-066-3 / 200 pages By Michael Yates, for Counterpunch Israel is waging a genocidal war against the people of Gaza, murdering in excess of 40,000 persons, with more victims almost certainly dead under the rubble left by relentless bombing. The British medical journal The Lancet suggest that if…

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