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"Socialist theorists like Bauer believed that national cultures could be enriched under conditions of equity. But if workers were to wage class war to rebuild those cultures, they needed to *care* about their culture first."
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To be clear, I intend to tell the full story of what happened here—one that is, first and foremost, about the terror inflicted on Umm al-Khair. What happened to @the_andrey_x, @AdeleShoko and me is secondary to the larger story. It will take a little time to put it all together, but it’s coming. And I will be naming names.
🚨 TODAY: Settler-terrorists attacked Andrey, Jasper and me. This video shows the assault.
Andrey was severely beaten and lost consciousness several times in front of police. Despite this, he was denied hospital treatment. He was put in an ambulance—but instead of being taken to hospital, he was taken to a police station.
He is still there, arrested and being denied medical care.
Jasper and I were also beaten. Jasper was then pepper-sprayed and arrested.
"In his description of the cure, he is explicit that he “pretended” to tremble, that “the alleged worm” of the sickness that he sucked out of the woman and spit into his palm was a mix of down and blood he’d hidden in his lip."
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"25,000 Kirghiz were massacred by ‘Alimqul and his allies in 1853 alone...It is not mysterious or any indication of infirmity that, when ‘Alimqul asked his Kirghiz soldiers to risk their lives for his benefit, they defected & deserted by the thousands."
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"Forstater’s monetary history of the colonial powers in Africa shows just how brutal and violent the process of imposing a tax obligation can be...Perhaps, Forstater suggests, because such importance flows from the barrel of a gun."
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"'The future does not look good for us. Almost every year we are now experiencing several devastating cyclones and storms. It was not like this a few years ago,' Alberto Luiz, a resident of Mozambique’s Beira city told me dejectedly."
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"So we asked ourselves, do we believe in armed struggle? We saw that the Panthers were armed...So we told them yes! The next day, we went down to the army surplus store, and we got our green army jackets—so we could fit in."
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"...a teenaged Ben Gvir threatening then-Prime Minister Rabin in his car, snapping off the Cadillac emblem on the hood, saying 'We got to his car, and we’ll get to him, too' – three weeks before Rabin was actually assassinated."
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"In the alleys, men whom Glanton called “shadow people” played craps. The boy had a vague sense that the things these men talked about—pink slips, layoffs, breadlines, evictions—were what had made them shadows in the first place."
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Very excited to see that Lisa Bendall’s long-gestating introduction to Linear B has finally been published by @CambUP_Classics.
"So, a phrase that held a connection to the Baha’i Faith ended up being admired and copied by Muslims. Its enduring popularity reveals several ways that weaknesses in the government’s oppressive grave inscription policy can be exploited."
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I have three poems in this issue which I like very much.
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We are proud to announce that Issue Six is forthcoming in early November.
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I just purchased an annual subscription to @strange_matters to support the work of writers I admire. And @jake_romm has poems in the forthcoming issue!
"Flan quivers yellow
In the underground
Where rats walk by
Nibbling on rodenticide
While humans scurry past
Huffing suicide"
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"If social media – and with it, an increasingly tolerant market – were the sole or even central cause of K-beauty and other East Asian cosmetics’ success, why has such success been so disproportionate?"
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"NFL jerseys have become a coat of arms for pro football’s distinct cultural tradition, which continually dramatizes the interplay between corporate patronage, the military-industrial complex, the spiritualism of fandom, & the stadium economy..."
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"She is not popular, nor upstanding, nor a leader. Nobody would describe her as a pillar of the community. But she is there, and this community must find ways to integrate her, to engage with her."
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"'They look upon it as a monstrous thing to be tied one to another without any hopes of being able to untie or break the Knot,' Lahontan wrote of Wendat attitudes towards the mandatory lifelong coupling of Christendom."
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