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How Can Palestinian Writers Resist Consumption by Colonial Narratives? Palestine

How Can Palestinian Writers Resist Consumption by Colonial Narratives?

The year 2019 marked, for better and worse, a heightened visibility of Palestine in the american media and collective consciousness. After 71 years of colonization in Palestine and 12 years of blockade on Gaza, we arrive at a cycle that is familiar—essential, even—to america’s imagination: disproportionate israeli brutality in response…
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March 6, 2020
5 ways the global coronavirus is entangling the nationalist Trump Mexico Border Wall

5 ways the global coronavirus is entangling the nationalist Trump

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday that China had “taken social distancing to its farthest extreme” — to an extent that couldn’t be replicated in the U.S. “Places that have controlled this … have a mix of authoritarianism and competence,” said David…
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March 6, 2020
See These Missiles? This Is How North Korea Could Attack with Nearly ‘No Warning’ Nuclear Weapons

See These Missiles? This Is How North Korea Could Attack with Nearly ‘No Warning’

Key point: The new super-large MLR extends the range and explosive force of Pyongyang’s existing non-nuclear arsenal.North Korea on Oct. 31, 2019 fired two rockets from its new “super-large” multiple rocket launch system, potentially escalating tension between Washington and Pyongyang as talks over North Korea’s nuclear-weapons program stall out.The projectiles launched…
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March 6, 2020
Siligi and her seven cubs Mass Tourism

Siligi and her seven cubs

Print edition : March 13, 2020 T+ T- The five-year-old cheetah, Siligi, with her litter of an unprecedented seven cubs in the Masai Mara reserve in Kenya. Photo: Sumesh Sankarathodi. Siligi and her cubs became a global sensation, attracting several wildlife photographers to Masai Mara. Photo: Dileep Anthikkad Siligi, ever on the…
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March 6, 2020
The Clone Wars Gets Into a Man Versus Machine Debate, With Some Explosions Star Wars

The Clone Wars Gets Into a Man Versus Machine Debate, With Some Explosions

Tech examines the damage wrought upon Echo by Tambor’s experiements.Image: LucasfilmThe conflict of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is, quite literally, man versus machine: droids and clones, durasteel and synthetic flesh and bone, hurled at each other at the behest of one shadowy architect. Sometimes, that means those tools of…
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March 6, 2020