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Interview with film-maker Michal Kosakowski

Naked Punch Contributing Editor and founder of Shoppinghour magazine Peter Eramian interviews Michal Kosakowski. Peter: Three movies that I’d like to discuss: “Just Like the Movies”, “The Heart of It” and “Fortynine”. In “Just Like the Movies” you basically reconstruct September 11th using footage from Hollywood blockbusters. This seems to me to be a statement about the fictionalization of certain political…

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The Trouble with House Arrest

One problem with house arrest is that you never quite know who’s in-charge. Or what you’ve been charged with. Or how the situation will be resolved. Between prisoner and jailor, who has the greater power? Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, Zhao Zhiyang in China, Habib  Bourgouiba in Tunisia, Sukarno in Indonesia, Mossadeq and Ayatollah Hossein-Ali…

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Those Struggling for a Different Pakistan

I.  Prologue Pakistan is in a state of crisis.  The history of Pakistan, looked at from a human perspective, has been a perpetual crisis since its birth.  The ruling elite have operated -- from the very beginning -- on cronyism, nepotism, and legal and illegal corruption.  They have always been inefficient and indifferent to the…

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'Naked Punch Review is looking for fresh voices in poetry, art and film criticism, philosophy and anything else that you think may interest our readers.  We would welcome your submission for our on-line version.  There is no limit in terms of words and form from our side except the technical limit of presenting material on-line.…

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The Withered State

Disaster is the only news of the day. It was providential that a sinkhole has opened up in Guatemala. It is 100-feet deep with a circular chasm of 66 feet. An act of nature, it is felt, is so much easier to deal with than the many, too many acts of human despoliation. Oil plumes…

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