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Pakistan’s neo-colonial rule in Balochistan
POLITICS

Pakistan’s neo-colonial rule in Balochistan

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is urging the complete demilitarisation of occupied Balochistan, as a precondition for a negotiated political settlement to end six decades of economic neglect, ethnic persecution and military repression by Islamabad. Echoing the criticisms of Baloch national leaders, the HRCP says the Pakistan government’s current  peace and reconciliation package is…

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Poem – Untitled
Poetry

Poem – Untitled

he liked me in the way toyota-buyers do, carefully with no surprises everything he said and did was just as his face- manual advertised the kind of pamphlet, you don't need to open detailing love for mother and dog and country, a savings account and friday night movie with hand holding expecting the expected the…

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Socialized Media?
Philosophy POLITICS

Socialized Media?

Social networks and online media have become such an integrated part of our existence it is difficult to imagine what the political landscape would look like today in their absence. The culmination of an extraordinary leap in communicative technology, their role in faciliating dialogue between ideas, opinions, causes and fundamental beliefs has reconstructed the way we conduct…

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Interview of a Greek Rebel II
INTERVIEWS POLITICS

Interview of a Greek Rebel II

Are you an anarchist? No. Don’t be addicted to words; some people have an addiction to words because they need to belong somewhere. Some people see being an anarchist as a “profession” because they are defined by that and they adhere to it for their personal reasons, just like their counterparts do (no need to…

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Interview of a Greek Rebel
INTERVIEWS POLITICS

Interview of a Greek Rebel

Anonymous: Philosophy Student, Male, 32 Are you an anarchist? I am not an anarchist, but I am an educated person who won’t take it anymore. The anarchists, for their own good are taking advantage of the rage of the people; though some are just doing this to smash things, I respect that as a militant…

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(the url is: http://thecriticalattitude.wordpress.com/) Titled after Bertolt Brecht's poem: The Critical Attitude. Bertolt Brecht On the Critical Attitude The critical attitude Strikes many people as unfruitful That is because they find the state Impervious to their criticism But what in this case is an unfruitful attitude Is merely a feeble attitude. Give criticism arms And…

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Two Underdogs and the reconstruction of Gaga
ART

Two Underdogs and the reconstruction of Gaga

Consuming iconographic material via general media, one is often overwhelmed with the challenge of making meaning within the margins of celebrated personification. Messages are charmingly packaged within voluptuously orange cleavage, chiselled out mega-abdominals, and perpetually kitsch teleshoppery. Indeed, we have heard this neo-Marxist voice countless times. Such a mundane diatribe is not my intention here,…

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