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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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Destruction begins with ideas 1. The Colonial University The professor’s place is the classroom, we are told; and to this there is only one exception—when the professor is advocating more loot for the exploiters who pay him his salary. —Upton Sinclair, The Goose-Step: A Study of American Education (1923) GENOCIDE BEGINS WITH THE IDEA OF GENOCIDE. So…
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The moral truth of Israel’s war against Gaza is not difficult to grasp From time to time, language dies.It is dying now.Who is alive to speak it? —Fady Joudah, [. . . ] THERE IS NO PROPER ENTRANCE to an essay that undertakes things which should never be uttered, which have already been said. There is no…
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Afterward to the Second German Edition[Abstract] [….] Whilst the writer pictures what he takes to be actually my method, in this striking and [as far as concerns my own application of it] generous way, what else is he picturing but the dialectic method? Of course the method of presentation must differ in form from that…
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AMERICADAVID CAMERONRUSSIAUKUKRAINEWAR Thomas Fazi APRIL 12, 2024 6 MINS It’s hard to imagine a better metaphor for the miserable state of UK politics than David Cameron flying across the Atlantic in the hope of convincing America to continue funding a bloody war on Europe’s doorstep — only to fail miserably. Over the past few days, the…
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Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language.By Louise Matsakis MARCH 26, 2024SHARESAVE Listen to this article 00:00 10:58 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. A few days ago, I watched a video of myself talking in perfect Chinese. I’ve been studying the language…
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