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Adam Tooze in Foreign Policy: 2022 has been a year of dollar power—power that manifests itself in both overt and subtler forms. In the spring, the financial sanctions slapped on
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Gentlemen, I’m putting the two of you on the hot seat with me. I want that third alternative!—Captain James T. Kirk, USS Enterprise, Stardate 3289.8 by Michael Liss at 3QuarksDaily:
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Polly Morland in The Guardian: Most of us over the age of 30 can remember the family doctor we had when we were kids. They met us as babies and watched
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Pankaj Mishra at Paris Review: I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi in the mid-nineties, when she was an editor at Oxford University Press and I had just published
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IRSHAD SALIM — Pakistani pyrotechnic team won the top slot in a major competition on 14th August in Moscow. The (video below) captures their ten-minute performance. Watch after 2min 15
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IN KARACHI “water provision is “more lucrative than drugs”…competition for control of the city’s water includes water mafias and formal institutions…it is a source of intense economic and political competition.
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Curated by Irshad Salim, Karachi (Aug. 16, 2022)
THEN: Guangzhou, the port city in southern China, in the late 18th century. Because of its position at the meeting point of inland rivers and the South China sea, it
Relatively little has been known about the President’s father, whose story reveals a family’s fraught relationship with money, class, and alcohol. “All children are shaped by their parents,” Adam Entous
ANWAR ABBAS — Since my childhood, celebrating ‘Independence Day’ was always the most fascinating event. We used to hoist national flags at the rooftop of our home and small flags
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Written in 1944, Feeling Is the Secret resounds with the full power of Neville Goddard’s mystical vision. One of the great metaphysical teachers of the 20th century, Goddard with total
What does our national anthem mean in our national language Urdu, as the lyric is in Farsi (Persian)? A video share in January this year helped understand what the anthem’s
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