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IRSHAD SALIM — A few transgenders I had met at a markaz (marketplace) in Islamabad during February thru March 2022 are happy campers. They’re willing to learn, acquire skills, become
Continue readingTransgenders Julie, Mannat and Sapna (Video)
Best political cartoons pick weekending April 24, 2022: More here.
The five permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council (UNSC) – UK, US, France, China and Russia – have exercised their veto powers primarily to protect their own national
By Robin Wright for The New Yorker: In his Nobel Peace Prize speech, in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, pronounced that “the risk of a
Continue readingNuclear Deterrence and Russia’s War in Ukraine
IRSHAD SALIM – Imran Khan has successfully Oscar Tangoed the overall concept of Tosha Khana to the country’s top court, which has reportedly sought -in public interest, the 20+ year
An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. Karen Hao in the MIT Technology Review: My husband
Continue readingArtificial Intelligence is Creating a New Colonial World Order
Rents continue to rise at the fastest pace in decades, making housing costlier than ever for many Americans. Here’s how rent has changed in 1,500 counties across the United States
Continue readingRents Are Rising Everywhere in U.S. and in Australia
Benjamin Mueller in the New York Times: “We’re doing a really terrible job of communicating risk,” said Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at
Deglobalization by Marco D’Eramo: ‘The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades’. Thus spoke Larry Fink, CEO of
Continue readingWill Russia’s Invasion Fracture the World-System?
TARIQ ALI: Over the Pakistani airwaves, sports commentators frequently groan that the national cricket team – which most people follow with religious fervor – is ‘once again in trouble’. The
Maria Rubin in The NY Review of Books: IT IS DAUNTING to write a biography of Tolstoy. Hundreds or even thousands of books have already put each detail of his life
Continue readingA Genius on the Wrong Side of History: Tolstoy’s Conflicts and Contradictions
Glenn Greenwald in his Substack newsletter: If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing US/NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous