TheseLongWars
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I'm the blogger TheseLongWars (TLW) from these-long-wars.blogspot.com and this is my Blue Sky and back-up account.
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Why are Southasian youth taking to the streets against their governments? The simplest answer would be the lack of economic opportunity, write AnupamDebashis and Rishija Singh
The overlapping factors behind Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s uprisings
ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, three Southasian nations underwent political transitions. In 2008, Nepal became a federal republic, ending 250 years of monarchy. Bangladesh
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October 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Why are Southasian youth taking to the streets against their governments? The simplest answer would be the lack of economic opportunity, write AnupamDebashis and Rishija Singh
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As Pakistan’s government restarts a debate on resource sharing between the country’s centre and the provinces, concerns emerge on fiscal recentralisation, writes Salman Rafi Sheikh
Pakistan’s struggle to reshape its fiscal federalism
A recent proposal by Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan’s federal minister for planning, development and special initiatives, has exacerbated deep-seated fears in the countr
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October 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
As Pakistan’s government restarts a debate on resource sharing between the country’s centre and the provinces, concerns emerge on fiscal recentralisation, writes Salman Rafi Sheikh
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Hey, Darren Aronofsky made a nice lowdown genre movie I enjoyed!
*pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
*pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
Caught Stealing Is a Wild and Violent Romp
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era ...
jacobin.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Hey, Darren Aronofsky made a nice lowdown genre movie I enjoyed!
*pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
*pigs begin flying all over the world*
jacobin.com/2025/09/caug...
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Yep! My family has always been Republican; I think I still have some “kids for McCain” and “hottest governor from the coldest state” buttons from the 2008 election
July 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Yep! My family has always been Republican; I think I still have some “kids for McCain” and “hottest governor from the coldest state” buttons from the 2008 election
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the new York times awards anonymity to a racist kid who breaks computers with magnets
July 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
the new York times awards anonymity to a racist kid who breaks computers with magnets
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California Protesters throw rocks at ICE
June 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
California Protesters throw rocks at ICE
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The lifting of the Jamaat-e-Islami ban comes after the acquittal of a party leader previously sentenced for war crimes during the 1971 war. However, the BNP, a key political player, continues to distance itself from Jamaat. Out now in Southasia Weekly: bit.ly/HimalNewslet...
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June 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The lifting of the Jamaat-e-Islami ban comes after the acquittal of a party leader previously sentenced for war crimes during the 1971 war. However, the BNP, a key political player, continues to distance itself from Jamaat. Out now in Southasia Weekly: bit.ly/HimalNewslet...
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#Podcast: The anti-CAA protests for us was a breathing space where we could just be and with our identity on the street and resist and articulate this resistance in our own terms, says Afreen Fatima to Harsh Mander
Afreen Fatima & Harsh Mander: Bulldozers, the hijab and Muslim rage in Modi’s India
Himal Southasian Podcast Channel · Episode
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June 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#Podcast: The anti-CAA protests for us was a breathing space where we could just be and with our identity on the street and resist and articulate this resistance in our own terms, says Afreen Fatima to Harsh Mander
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FOTUS is deploying the military to attack citizens who are peacefully protesting. Just like millions of us will be doing for NO KINGS Day next Saturday. He is using this tactic to scare us. No way! We will not be deterred. See you on the streets America! #FOTUSIsACriminal
June 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
FOTUS is deploying the military to attack citizens who are peacefully protesting. Just like millions of us will be doing for NO KINGS Day next Saturday. He is using this tactic to scare us. No way! We will not be deterred. See you on the streets America! #FOTUSIsACriminal
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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If India, with its suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, has given Pakistan a window to renegotiate the agreement, sealing off toxic drains from Indian Punjab might be a place to start, writes daanibhai.bsky.social: buff.ly/o5QNOUP
Pakistan loses nothing from India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty
Everyone in Pakistan, with a few exceptions, will disagree with me when I characterise the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) as more of a tragedy than a lifeline for th
himalmag.com
May 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If India, with its suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, has given Pakistan a window to renegotiate the agreement, sealing off toxic drains from Indian Punjab might be a place to start, writes daanibhai.bsky.social: buff.ly/o5QNOUP
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Virginia Giuffre, who was the first of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims to go public — accusing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of recruiting her to join their sex trafficking ring — and who sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault, died on Friday. She was 41.
Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41
She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their sex-trafficking ring and sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Virginia Giuffre, who was the first of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims to go public — accusing Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell of recruiting her to join their sex trafficking ring — and who sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault, died on Friday. She was 41.
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