by Chen Dongshu, Zhou Hanqiu After passing through rows of jungle, one arrives at Sanjeewanie Dewanarayana’s handicraft workshop, nestled among lush tropical grasses and trees in Pasyala, about 60 km away from
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by Xinhua writer Zheng Bofei The British government has announced a 2-billion-pound (about 2.59-billion-U.S. dollar) reduction in its Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget, reducing foreign aid spending from 0.58 percent of Gross
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Paradox of Power: Militarily it is a unipolar world of U.S. hegemony; economically it is a multipolar world with U.S. leadership; but on many transnational issues – such as international terrorism, the
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[Foreword excerpted from ‘Interventions: Selected Political Writings’, by Dayan Jayatilleka] ‘The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so free, that your very existence is an act of rebellion.’
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This essay is taken from Slavoj Žižek’s latest book Against Progress, part of the new Žižek’s Essays series, which published on October 31st by Bloomsbury. Images of the end of the world, imagined and otherwise, pervade
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The sun sets, but we all know it will rise again in the morning. The moon rises when the sun sets and sets when the sun reappears. In other words, something that
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