The reason last June’s massacre at Barrio Chino caused a scandal wasn’t that so many died there, it was that Spain can’t credibly distance itself from the deaths. That isn’t a problem when the bodies disappear beneath the waves. As Aimé Césaire once wrote, ‘Europe is indefensible.’
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My will to preserve the faint aura of mystery surrounding early Duras at the height of the vogue for ‘écriture féminine’ responded to something essential in her late life persona as the grande dame of French letters, namely her constant myth-making, her blending of truth and fiction.
Stone hides itself in itself and thinks itselfInvisible. Its breathing is the near-death rhythmOf hibernation. There is nothing of this in the word stone; and everything. The word of God is stone....
In The World and All That It Holds, Aleksandar Hemon wants to show how the monolithic lays waste to the macaronic – and how the macaronic, in the form of the resilient Pinto, manages to survive. Yet Hemon is seduced again and again by the universal.
Garry Haldane shared posts by far right group and attacking women’s mental health – but Starmer’s Labour thinks he’s a fit candidate Right-wing Labour figure Garry Haldane has proclaimed his delight at being shortlisted by the party in the parliamentary selection for Dunfermline and West Fife/Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath: However, in 2017 Mr Haldane was discovered […]
1. Flowers. Just a shit ton of flowers. Preferably exotic-looking ones like orchids, not pedestrian flowers like daisies—that would be confusing.
2. Chopsticks displayed in an artful (and respectful) way. Rice isn’t necessary, but it doesn’t hurt. Mind you, this works even when the book has absolutely nothing to do with food. Like, food doesn’t appear once in the book.
3. Tigers. Ditto the above—tigers don’t actually need to be referenced in the book. There’s just something about tigers that screams “East Asian,” you know? Depending on the book’s content, you can substitute tigers with cranes and/or koi fish.
4. Landscape of a rice paddy field or a tea estate. This works well for historical fiction—it recalls a nostalgic “colonial” mood that our readers enjoy. Obviously, the only appropriate font for this kind of cover is Papyrus.
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Josiah Mortimer talks to a leading lawyer who took part in the 2003 ricin trials on the terror cell that never was
Paul Vallas has raked in $1.6 million from executives at financial firms that could be hit by his progressive opponent’s proposed tax on speculative trades.
Before obtaining the required permits, Diversified Energy began installing cryptocurrency mining infrastructure on one of its thousands of well pads.
A potential visit with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen "seriously violates the One China principle, harms China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and destroys peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait," said one official.
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Summer School on “Modern Monetary Policy and European Macroeconomics” (Maastricht, July/August 2023) 31 July – 4 August, 2023 | University of Maastricht, Netherlands Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics This course provides an introduction to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). During the course, students will examine the balance sheets and transactions that are relevant for understanding […]
By Lucas Berenbrok, Janice L. Pringle and Joni Carroll / The Conversation On March 29, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Narcan for over-the-counter sale. Narcan is the 4-milligram nasal spray version of naloxone, a medication that can quickly counteract an opioid overdose. The FDA’s greenlighting of over-the-counter naloxone means that it will be available for […]
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The Ukrainian leader told AP his country will lose without US support.
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By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy announced this week that for the first time in US history, renewable sources generated more electricity in 2022 than did coal. Renewables also outstripped nuclear power generation, for the second year in a row. In fact, […]
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By Jenny Brown / Labor Notes Starbucks projects the image of an employee-friendly company, but its workers have been exposing the contradiction between the company’s words and its actions. On March 29, they’ll get some help from the U.S. Senate’s HELP Committee, chaired by Bernie Sanders. The Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has called […]
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Anna Paulson, director of research at the Chicago Fed, talks about the collaborative nature of economic research at the Federal Reserve.
The bank panic is proving to be an exercise in class warfare that may well wind up further strengthening the right.
A nice protective blanket of TV.
Biden pushes for an assault weapons ban.
About that militia.