Myanmar’s Junta Appears to Be in a Death Spiral as Resistance Fighters Gain Ground
Nearly three years after seizing power, the military has lost control of most of the country.
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Showdown at COP28
Buckle up, fireworks will be going off in a couple weeks in the pristine complex known as Dubai. World leaders, climate scientists, environmentalists, and fossil fuel producers will clash over the outlook for climate change and the impact of global warming, or should it be called global heating?
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The Scariest Climate Plot in the World
The actions we take now will determine Earth’s climate for 5,000 generations.
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Headscarf Issue Should be Evaluated in Context of Basic Human Rights and Not Justified from Theological Perspective
Seyma Akin, who teaches at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the Necmettin Erbakan University in Konya, Türkiye, speaks on the history and politics of women’s clothing in Türkiye.
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Physiological and Archaeological Evidence Rewrites Assumptions About a Gendered Division of Labor in Prehistoric Times
There is a growing body of physiological, anatomical, ethnographic and archaeological evidence to suggest that not only did women hunt in our evolutionary past, but they may well have been better suited for such an endurance-dependent activity.
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Ravana’s Women: How Warrior Women are Forgotten in Hindutva’s Version of Ramayan
The Ramayana is projected as a battle between men—Ram and Ravana. Women here play a subordinate role; the victim is Sita. In doing so, we forget the other warrior-women we encounter in the epic, of whom at least four are on Ravana’s side, defending him.
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The Powada in Marathi Literary and Performative Tradition
Radical as always and original in his invention of new forms or reinvention of existing literary forms, Mahatma Phule is almost certainly the first person to employ the powada as a satire and an interrogation of Brahmin hegemony.
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We are Spartacus
There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
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Letter to the Children of Gaza
“We have failed you.”
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The Warsaw Ghetto and Gaza: Understanding History
Zionists say they do not understand why Palestinians take up arms, and that their insurgency is terrorism. Let them read their own history. Where it says Jews put Palestinians, where it says Warsaw put Gaza and where it says Nazis put Zionists. Maybe then they will understand.
