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Riad Azar

The Clogged Capillaries of the Peruvian Amazon

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When one decides to take the trip into the jungle city of Iquitos – the largest city in the world inaccessible by road – there are two options.  The first is a flight by one of Peru’s many domestic airlines, 5 to 10 times per day, with a flight time of approximately 2 hours.  This…

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Still The Enemy Within

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The UK National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) strike of 1984-85 was an industrial action that could have changed the movement of history. Victory meant not only an opportunity to secure the production of coal and the staying of pit closures, but a fundamental threat to the success of Margaret Thatcher’s economic reforms. Failure, as we…

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Michael Gould-Wartofsky, The Occupiers

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Review of Michael Gould-Wartofsky, The Occupiers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Occupy was the largest political mobilization of my lifetime. The explosion of energy it produced gave the feeling of perpetuity, with thousands of volunteers supporting each other through donations of food and standing together in solidarity against the police. But as the encampments…

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