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CounterPunch 

Break on Through: Finding The Doors

I was at university when I first heard the Doors.  It was springtime, coming on summer.  I was living on campus, my first year, and I was eighteen.  I was in a housemate’s room, waiting for him to get back for some reason I don’t recall now.  The building we lived in was a little More

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Cyprus Mail 

Most clear on Friday, chance of rain in the mountains

The weather is expected to be mostly clear on Friday, with some isolated showers set to affect eastern areas and the mountains later in the afternoon. The met office said that there will be increased cloud cover in the western areas of the island, followed by isolated storms in the mountains and in some eastern […]

Malawi Voice.com 

Pastor Hastings Salanje’s errand boy, Pastor Mlotha, starts serving 10-year jail term in S.Africa over stolen batteries

Pastor Mlotha Nelson Usale, a subordinate of Pastor Hastings Salanje at Gods Chapel Church, has begun serving a 10-year prison sentence in South Africa for his role in a network tower battery theft syndicate. The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court found Usale guilty of tampering with essential infrastructure and fraud, after he orchestrated the theft of batteries […]

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October 7 Has a Prehistory

In belatedly disposing of teaching materials long after retiring, I came across a cutting from the Guardian Weekly (that convenient pre-internet medium for far-flung colonials, comprising articles from the UK Guardian, the Le Monde and the Washington Post). The cutting was a review of David Montgomery’s The Fall of the House of Labor; the issue, 22 May 1988. But wait, there’s something on More

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Tasty Bacon or Fellow Being? The Paradox of How We Relate to the Intelligence and Emotions of Pigs

Pigs are fascinating animals. Science shows they can solve challenging problems, love to play, display wide-ranging emotions, and have unique personalities. In short, they are both intelligent and sentient—capable of feeling. It’s clear that it is illogical and immoral to treat pigs as mere objects. In 2015, I reviewed an essay notable for its summary and distillation More

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CounterPunch 

Trump IPOs His Presidency

Why does anyone think Donald Trump is actually running for president? Granted, he’s the Republican nominee and is on the ballot in all fifty states, but the only election day that interests Trump is the one around September 20. On that day (or perhaps a few days later) the lockout period on his Trump Media More

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Business Standard 

Sammaan Capital to raise Rs 30,000 crore via NCDs, bonds

Sammaan Capital announced that its board approved raising of funds through issuance of NCDs/ bonds, for an aggregate amount of upto Rs 30,000 crore, in one or more tranches, on a private placement basis.

Sydney Morning Herald 

The Manhattanisation of Sydney

Sydney’s city skyline is being transformed into a mini Manhattan with luxury residential towers soaring out of the ground to replace the increasingly embattled office skyscrapers.