United States
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Greenland, Trump, and the Comfort of White Intermediaries
X.T.M argues the Greenland debate is really about a pattern across settler-colonial societies, where Indigenous political power is mediated by white-presenting figures who are legible and safe to Western capitals,…
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Bollywood, Brahmins, Parsis & WASPs:
X.T.M argues that elites are reproduced by property, institutions and networks rather than blood, so intermarriage is usually a merger, not a threat, citing English aristocrats and American heiresses, Parsis,…
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Venezuela as Pakistan: A Template, Not an Accident
X.T.M argues that Venezuela is being remade into a ‘Pakistan’: a regime form kept unstable, securitised and dependent, but intact enough to sign contracts and serve as leverage, reached through…
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Brown Venezuela to be Invaded
Sbarrkum reposts excerpts from a Naked Capitalism article arguing Trump’s demands over Venezuelan oil amount to an open colonial confession, and that Exxon-funded think-tank experts are helping to market military…
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Love Jihad Zohran
X.T.M jokes that Zohran Mamdani is a product of ‘Love Jihad’, citing an Indian Eye interview where Mamdani described growing up in an interfaith family.
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The Broken Compact
The author argues that the incremental Indian and American Dream, in which education and merit lead to mobility, has expired for a generation. He sees a new South Asian left…
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Zohran Mamdani open thread
Open thread on Zohran Mamdani’s election victory, which the author calls a huge deal, bigger than Sadiq Khan’s; readers are asked to post links, including an Urdu pop song about…
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Orlando. Stochastically predictable?
After the Orlando attack, the author argues that classical shariah-based Islam endorses violence against gays, yet practical tolerance of homosexuality in the Islamicate world was long very high, so a…
