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The Tragic Tale of a Flower that Wilted too Soon (Part 2 of 2)
Ruttie Jinnah and M.A. Jinnah IMAGE/Dawn Read Part 1. Drugs Ruttie’s rush to dash off to Paris was to get drugs. Mrs. Naidu’s letters from Paris and New York to Padmaja make that clear. While in Paris in 1929, Mrs. Naidu incidentally discovered from a princess (cousin of queen of Italy), who knew Ruttie, the […]
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Cowardice and Cancellation: Creative Australia and the Venice Biennale
Cowardice is the milk that runs in the veins of many event organisers, especially when it comes to those occasions that might provoke the unmanaged unexpected. The same organisers will claim to be open minded, accommodating to stirring debate, and open to what is trendily termed in artistic lingo as “provocations”. The dropping by Creative […]
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Philadelphia and the Darkside of Liberty
This planned investigation, titled Philadelphia and The Darkside of Liberty, is a deliberate examination into the cultural, economic, and sociopolitical foundations which undergirded America’s early colony and its newly birthed land of liberty’s class-stratified slave society – combined with a closer look at the contradictions which laid within the notions and/or paradoxes of early American equality, […]
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Messing with Minds
“Mind Games” explained by John Lennon. The post Messing with Minds first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Media Silent Over Israel’s Use of the “Hannibal Directive” on 7 October 2023
‘Hannibal Directive’ was implemented by Israeli military forces on 7 October 2023, the day of attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian fighters. There had already been strong evidence, including reports by Israeli news media, that Israeli forces killed many Israeli civilians, either in ‘friendly fire’ incidents or by implementing the deadly doctrine, intended to prevent […]
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Feeling Very Fine: Picasso the Printmaker at the British Museum
This is Pablo Picasso the way he is rarely seen – at least in so far as the hundred or so pieces at the British Museum’s Picasso: Printmaker have been displayed. The viewer is treated to dazzling marked draughtsmanship that also evinces a mastery of techniques: the use of drypoint and etching, lithographs, linocuts and […]
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China-Africa Space Co-op Shows Tech’s Multipolarization, Democratization Trends
Illustration: Liu Rui/GT In recent years, cooperation between China and Africa in the space field has deepened. However, some Western media outlets have tried to distort the nature of this cooperation. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that China is “building space alliances in Africa to enhance its global surveillance network and advance its bid to become […]
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Anti-Palestinian Racism on Campus
In the midst of growing repression faced by Palestinians and supporters of Palestinian freedom, the VP team has worked on a new visual that focuses on the repression of Palestinian students and students who express solidarity with Palestinians on college campuses. This visual was created in partnership with the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association. Special thanks […]
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