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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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  • An interview with Annie Jacobsen, author of ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’

    By Michael Mechanic | April 1, 2024  Photo credit Hilary JonesShare This article was originally published by Mother Jones. Nuclear war is a topic few care to think about. We sometimes call it unthinkable. But we need to think carefully, and to talk—particularly with high-ranking foreign officials whose motives we may have reason to distrust, just as they distrust…

  • America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.

    We rarely consider the dangers these days, but our existence depends on it. ANNIE JACOBSENMARCH 27, 2024 This article was adapted from Nuclear War: A Scenario, published March 26, 2024, by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright 2024 by Annie M. Jacobsen. Nuclear war is madness. Were a…

  • Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes on ICC seeking arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu: Why we need humanity’s law

    Reaction to International Court seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders shows international order is beyond even the redeeming comforts of organised hypocrisy Written by Pratap Bhanu Mehta  Updated: May 22, 2024 11:54 IST Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Yoav Gallant during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel…

  • Fanon the Universalist

    Susan Neiman Adam Shatz argues in his new biography of Frantz Fanon that the supposed patron saint of political violence was instead a visionary of a radical universalism that rejected racial essentialism and colonialism. June 6, 2024 issue Archives Frantz Fanon/IMEC Frantz Fanon, front, at a press conference during the Congress of Writers, Tunis, Tunisia,…

  • For the defense of the Alliance of Sahel States

    Originally published: Hood Communist  on May 9, 2024 by The Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa (more by Hood Communist)  |  (Posted May 16, 2024) Nigeriens demonstrate during a rally at the Place de la Concertation in front of the headquarters of the National Assembly on 20 August 2023 in Niamey. They are supporting the National Council for the Safeguard of…

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