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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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Originally published: Al Mayadeen on September 2, 2024 by Cyril Zenda (more by Al Mayadeen) | (Posted Sep 04, 2024) Agriculture, Climate Change, Human Rights, StrategyAfricaNewswire Namibia recently announced plans to kill 700 animals, including elephants, to feed some of its most vulnerable communities. It is the latest country in southern Africa to turn to the forest to alleviate hunger as the region reels under…
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Chima Sep 06, 2024 I. BACKGROUND: Ever since the Chinese government initiated a robust trade relationship with the continent back in the year 2000, the globe-spanning Euro-American corporate media have been working overtime to paint a cartoonish image of that milestone. In the virtual fantasy world created by the media propagandists, China is “colonizing a continent…
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21 January, 2024 [April 16th, 1917] Lenin arrives in Petrograd. Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). Vladimir Ilyich Ulanov (1870-1924) was known by his pseudonym – Lenin. He was, like his siblings, a revolutionary, which in the context of Tsarist Russia…
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In the dialectical spiral of culture, poems, songs, and stories inspire us to act and depict our actions, which in turn inspires others to do the same. 12 September 2024 Mahankali Parvati (left), Moturu Udayam (middle), and Chintala Koteshwaramma (right) perform an anti-war song during World War II with the group they led, Burrakatha Squad.…
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