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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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  • Inside the Feminist Revolution in Northern Syria

    A “utopian” society promoting gender equality continues to rise from the ashes of ISIS — despite ongoing Turkish attacks. BY ELIZABETH FLOCKMARCH 25, 2024 Elizabeth Flock is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who reports on gender and justice issues and hosts the podcast “Blind Plea.” This story is adapted from “The Furies: Women, Vengeance and Justice” (HarperCollins and Viking/Penguin,…

  • Lessons From Chile: How Not To Write A Constitution

    The task should fall to a citizens’ assembly instead of elected delegates. Ibrahim Rayintakath for Noema Magazine ESSAYFUTURE OF DEMOCRACY BY NATHAN GARDELSJANUARY 5, 2024 FacebookTwitterEmail Nathan Gardels is the editor-in-chief of Noema Magazine. “Constitutions need general acceptance so we can turn to their rules to manage our differences,” the former left-of-center Chilean President Ricardo Lagos told me in September…

  • Will the Cocos Islands become like Diego Garcia, highjacked by the U.S.?

    Originally published: Pearls and Irritations  on May 30, 2024 by John Menadue (more by Pearls and Irritations) (Posted May 31, 2024) Imperialism, Inequality, State Repression, StrategyAmericas, Australasia, Australia, United StatesNewswireCocos (Keeling) Islands, Diego Garcia, U.S. Military The 2000 residents of Diego Garcia were forcibly removed to make way for a giant U.S. military base. Will the same happen to the 593…

  • 5 Materials That Shaped the World And the legacy they left behind…    

    June 05, 2024   |   Read Online 5 Materials That Shaped the World And the legacy they left behind…       Read time: 5 minutes Iraq’s answer to the pyramids: the Great Ziggurat of Ur (before and after restoration) From the ruined walls of the earliest Mesopotamian cities to the skyscrapers of the…

  • The U.S. empire isn’t a government that runs nonstop wars, it’s a nonstop war that runs a government

    By Caitlin A. Johnstone (Posted Jun 03, 2024) Originally published: Caitlin A Johnstone Blog  on June 1, 2024 (more by Caitlin A Johnstone Blog)  |  Culture, Democracy, Empire, WarAmericas, United StatesNewswire It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the U.S. empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens…

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