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The Gun-Slave Cycle
The prisoner sits across from me in the cramped airless cubicle behind the plexiglass hands gently folded during this middle passage between life and death wrists ringed by steel forged by Smith & Wesson It is an old story of guns and slavery Into the lower decks of the ships the European merchants loaded chests…
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Is Britain complicit in human rights violations in Balochistan?
Balochistan, bordering Iran to the West and Afghanistan to the North, was an independent country before the British attacked and invaded it in 1839. The Baloch ruler, at the time, Mir Mehrab Khan along with hundreds of Baloch fighters died while defending Balochistan. Later the British draw two artificial lines (borders), the Goldsmith Line (1871)…
POLITICS
Journalism Between ‘Red Lines’
Journalists in balochistan are not journalists.  They are jugglers and acrobats.  Dancing to the tune of various groups.  Let me state it more clearly, Journalists in Balochistan have to tread a fine line vaguely defined by religious militant outfits, nationalist separatists and operatives of intelligence agencies. Each group has its own red lines that if…
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A Case for a ‘Feminist foreign Policy’ for South Asia
A Case for a ‘Feminist foreign Policy’ for South Asia J. Ann Tickner begins her essay Hans Morgantheau’s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation with “international politics is a man’s world, a world of power and conflict in which warfare is a privileged activity”. In all wars or conflicts it is women, who bear the real…
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Shu Arab Spring?
(Naked Punch Review Issue 16 Editorial by Vijay Prashad Published 9/4/14) I. Tornado. A tornado seems to have swept through the narrow Gaza Strip. Every few years (2014, 2012, 2009, 2006….) this tornado makes its appearance. It lashes the day, lasts weeks and creates devastation that takes months and years to repair. Names are given this…
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Greece, ‘Preferring Not To’
The YES/NO Greek referendum vote announced on June 25th by the Syriza government, taking place today, is a call for the Greek people to grant the country some ground in negotiating a proposal for the restructuring of the European political and economic system. Since the announcement of the referendum the country has split into YES and…
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Modernity is a Fable
Modernity may be the name for our current historical epoch, allegedly characterised by unfettered progress, liberty, and the conquest of religion and superstition in the name of truth and science. But it is also a story, a fiction. Specifically, it is a fable – a linear morality tale: ultimate redemption in the face of, in…