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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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“This is a remarkably articulate report with astute political commentary . . . an important social document.”—Library Journal First published in English in 1978, Monthly Review Press is now reprinting the story of Domitila De Chungara–an indefatigable fighter for the families of Bolivian miners, an everyday, singular rebel with an irrepressible sense of conviction and…
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The real reasons behind Israel’s assassination of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh Thomas Fazi Aug 04, 2024 Are you wondering what the hell is happening in the Middle East? I’ve selected two articles that explain very well the real strategy (if you want it to call it that) behind Israel’s brazen killing of Hamas’s political…
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The Neck and The Sword Let’s start with the present, not just in the sense of the horrors being inflicted on Palestine right now, but the present as part of Palestine’s still-active past. The brutal Anglo-Zionist repression of the great Arab Revolt of 1936–39 was followed by the Nakba of 1948, the Six-Day War in…
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EPISODE 1➡️THE 1950s. “My son’s jaundice is relentless,” told the elderly man. At two hospitals that he took him to, the doctors were baffled, unable to find a cause for Nitin’s sudden onset jaundice. “They say he may need a liver transplant, but it’s a burden we can scarcely bear,” the old man continued, his…
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Israeli human rights organisation says “the Israeli apartheid regime must come to an end” Thomas Fazi Aug 06, 2024 B’Tselem, the main Israeli human rights organisation, has just published a horrifying report, tellingly titled Welcome to Hell, on the systematic abuse and torture in Israeli prisons since October 7. The report, based on the testimonies of…
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