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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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  • The lower middle class isn’t middle-class anymore

    Time to stop the twin flywheels of inequality JEROEN VAN BAAR FEB 3, 2024 I attended a fascinating symposium at the Urban Institute yesterday. Urban is a non-profit research organization and think tank in Washington, DC focusing on issues of economics and social policy. Yesterday’s session was about the “forgotten middle”, a term that refers to the lower…

  • A Word like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War: The Seventh Newsletter (2024)

    FEBRUARY 15, 2024 Erik Bulatov (USSR), Horizon, 1971–72. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 January, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announced the start of a massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 that will continue until the end of May. Over 90,000 troops from NATO countries (and one partner country,…

  • Israel declares war on Rafah, the last safe zone in Gaza

    Israel is going ahead with its all out assault on Rafah despite strong condemnation by world leaders and aid organizationsFebruary 12, 2024 by Peoples Dispatch Photo: WAFA News Agency Despite repeated warnings from scores of world leaders, international institutions, and aid agencies, Israel has significantly intensified its bombardment in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, where currently…

  • Syncretic Past

    THOMAS SLIWOWSKI 09 FEBRUARY 2024HISTORY During the Russian Revolution, few groups experienced wilder twists of fate than Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war. Born into the serenity of Habsburg rule and enlisted in an imperial army that erased national distinctions, they returned to a Europe of independent states and competing ideologies. Many were radicalized by the ordeal.…

  • FEBRUARY 14, 2024

    There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go BY VIJAY PRASHAD Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City. Photo by Naaman Omar apaimages. On February 9, 2024, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his army would advance into Rafah, the last remaining city in Gaza not…

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