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Baghdad and the Emergence of the New World Order, 1990 – 2003

“All these developments intend not only to destroy Iraq, but to eliminate the role of the Soviet Union so the United States can control the fate of all humanity.” (Hamid Hammadi, Culture Minister, Iraq, February 1991, in a conversation with Saddam Hussein) On January 1, 2011, Wikileaks published the full cable from the U. S.…

ByVijay Prashad

The Osage Vision in the Words of Agnes Lin

Agnes Lin is a merchandising magnate who grew up in Hong Kong. Starting out as an editorial assistant at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council she moved from merchandising for Swire, to an assistant editor of a garment trade magazine, to establishing Osage Merchandising, her own merchandising business which has taken her across the world.…

ByStephanie Bailey

Hong Kong’s Generation (Re) Generation

Art in Hong Kong has never had it so good. Aside from being the 3rd largest art market in the world after London and New York in terms of auction sales, complete with Christie’s, Sotheby’s and auction-driven Gagosian Gallery presence in the city, the local art fair has fire-rocketed into the upper echelons of art…

ByStephanie Bailey

On Philosophers, Violence, Humour & Tragedy

Simon Critchley Interviewed by Qalandar Bux Memon and Asif Akhtar (Portrait by Luca Del Baldo) Part One (Interview conducted June 2011) Part One: The Role of Philosophers, Violence and Resistance, and Humour. QM - You have claimed that the role and responsibility of the philosopher is, in part, ‘the production of crisis’. Firstly, could you unpack…

BySimon Critchley

Bol Magazine Issue 05

Below is a link to issue 05 of NP's other magazine Bol. http://issuu.com/naked_punch_review/docs/bolasiafinal05

Balochistan Betrayed

News on Balochistan continues to be shaped by the state's dominant narrative: Of a province that is, and always has been, rightfully Pakistani. But a cursory look at a Baloch version of events – rarely if ever (re)presented in the Pakistani media - paints another picture. A picture not of agreements and friendship. But of…

ByMahvish Ahmad

Journalism and Occupation in Kashmir

(Article first published by The Kashmir Walla) For obvious reasons freedom of the press in Kashmir is limited and constrained. Military occupation with its attendant curfews, roadblocks, checkpoints, searches, surveillance, wiretapping of calls and emails, and state-sponsored violence from custodial deaths and extrajudicial killings to torture and disappearances, produce immense pain and suffering among Kashmiris.…

ByDavid Barsamian

Cripple

Cripple Come, let's do something amazing: Let's vilify him some more The one whom everyone calls a tyrant Where my brother's hand is sowing the seeds of oppression As my father's hand harvests the crop of exploitation And my clan, on various occasions, through words or silence, has sided with murderer…

ByHassan Rehman

Faisalabad Power Loom Workers Case: A Miscarriage of Justice

Over 5000 people attended a jalsa in Faisalabad on Saturday to denounce the judgement by the anti-terrorist court that sentenced six power loom workers to 99 years each for demanding the implementation of the 17% wage increase announced by the government in 2010. Mian Qayyum, chairman of the Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM), a union of…