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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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  • Anton Chekhov’s 6 Rules for a Great Story

    BY MARIA POPOVA “Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted,” Kurt Vonnegut offered in the first of his 8 tips for writing a good story. “A good story and a well-formed argument are different natural kinds,” the pioneering Harvard psychologist Jerome Bruner observed in…

  • Sermon for Gaza

    in Palestine by Chris Hedges 29/04/2024 Share: Share onWhatsAppShare onFacebookShare onX (Twitter)Share onTelegramShare onRedditShare onEmail This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary. In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America,…

  • Asian ‘NATO’ encircles China

    Originally published: Morning Star Online  on April 25, 2024 by Fiona Edwards (more by Morning Star Online)  |  (Posted Apr 30, 2024) INTIMIDATION: Ships from the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and from the America Expeditionary Strike Group transit the South China Sea, 2020 Empire, State Repression, Strategy, WarAmericas, Asia, Australasia, Australia, China, Europe, United Kingdom, United StatesNewswireAustralia and United Kingdom and the…

  • Full Text | ‘Fairly Confident R&AW Ex-Chief Was Fully in Picture’: Gerry Shih on Pannun Murder Plot

    Karan Thapar 3 hours ago 5 min read ‘This was not a one-off, a rogue actor. This had higher-up approval from within the agency including from Mr Goel. Karan Thapar and Gerry Shih.On May 1, in an interview to discuss the April 29 story in The Washington Post, which he was one of the authors of, Gerry Shih said the…

  • The Age of Cloud Capital

    Capitalism is finished. What’s replaced it is even worse. APR 29, 2024 Madame Tussauds’ wax figure of Don Draper, February 24, 2021. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images.) By Yanis Varoufakis  Capitalism is now dead, in the sense that its dynamics no longer govern our economies. In that role it has been replaced by something fundamentally…

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