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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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Read this fantastic book on Australian sub-imperial foreign policy in three hours. Learnt enormously about the contradictions of Australia’s role in the US imperialist world order. Fernandes draws the parallels with Israel very fruitfully. Immense achievement. The Wolvadoodles: A Review of Sub-Imperial Power Arena Quarterly no.13 Richard King Mar 2023 Sub-Imperial Power: Australia in the…
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Xiao Gongqin thought that, in moments of flux, a strongman could build a bridge to democracy. Now he’s not so sure. By Chang Che December 21, 2024 A large mural depicting current and former Chinese leaders: clockwise from top, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping, and Jiang Zemin.Photograph by Mark Schiefelbein / AP When…
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An intro to Paradise Lost… Culture Critic and Evan Amato Sep 14, 2024 John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost is an unchallenged classic for one reason — evil. Though he was far from the first to grapple with the problem of evil, Milton engaged it from a challenging angle: the perspective of evil itself. Paradise Lost retells the story…
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Lee Mordechai is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Photo supplied) By Owen Schalk (Posted Dec 19, 2024) Originally published: Canadian Dimension on December 14, 2024 (more by Canadian Dimension) | Inequality, Media, Strategy, WarAmericas, Canada, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, PalestineNewswireLee Mordechai On December 5, 2024, Israeli historian Lee Mordechai released a 124-page report titled “Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza…
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By Helena Sheehan (Posted Dec 11, 2021) The Soviet delegation at the International History of Science Congress in London, 1931: Nikolai Bukharin, Modest Rubenstein, and Boris Hessen in the foreground. Ideology, Marxism, Media, MovementsEurope, GlobalMonthly Review Essaysco-published, Featured This article is a co-publication of MR Online and Science for the People. At the recent conference of the Society for…
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