August 2014
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Economy
False Dawn?
Noting Suzuki importing Indian transmission technology, the poster says the Indian economy is showing signs of life under Modi, compares him to the Pakistani Army as a stabiliser, and warns…
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Politics
Egypt shows the way
Responding to an American assessment of Pakistan’s protests, the poster argues the army is preferred over mob rule, as in Egypt and Thailand, and that Nawaz Sharif is finished partly…
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Politics
Soft coup-
A one-paragraph comment that the Pakistan Army has emerged as the winner of the political crisis, with democracy defanged but its legitimacy preserved.
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Culture
Zone One
The poster reads Zone One alongside World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, finding it slower and less plot-driven, and muses on the end of ‘multi-culti’ and the West’s…
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Soft genocide?
Commenting on the Khmer Rouge tribunal verdict, the poster argues that international law labels genocide selectively, since a majority killing its own is not counted while killing minorities is, and…
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Politics
We have a deal!!!
Citing a Wall Street Journal report that Nawaz Sharif struck a deal giving the army control of strategic policy, the poster says the army used Imran Khan to soften up…
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Society
COPS. Oh America!
The poster argues American police kill unarmed people, mostly black, at an unacceptable rate, links it to the war on drugs and gun fetishism, and says the left-liberals have the…
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History
Letter to India: what soldiers wrote in the first world war
Links a Caravan piece on David Omissi’s collection of letters by Indian soldiers in the First World War, and reproduces several of them.
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The “Great” is no more in Great Britain
Prompted by the British embassy’s tweet about burning the White House, the poster argues that Britain’s union is fraying, with Scotland likely to leave regardless of the September vote and…
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Politics
“We are here to stay”
Quoting Nawaz Sharif’s defiant ‘we are here to stay’ speech and Khan’s reported conciliation, the poster hopes Pakistan gets a decisive leader, neither a fire-breather nor a passive observer, as…
