The importance of the Strait of Malacca for Chinese Trade
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Twofer: Duran Duran 🎶
Don’t Forget Iran’s Importance on the Chessboard
Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?
Twofer: Avicii 🎶
January 19, 1863: This Week in History

Read More »On January 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to textile workers in Manchester, England, a city with deep ties to the slave trade, thanking them for their sacrifice and solidarity in supporting an embargo on cotton harvested by enslaved workers.
Explaining Spoon Theory to Someone With/Without a Chronic Illness
I’m all out of spoons for today.
ExxonMobil Was Looking for a Handout
Bodybangers Twofer 🎶
Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilisational Factors in CPC Governance

Class must be prioritised in any analysis.
But over centuries and millennia, the collective “recipes for living” (Clifford Geertz’ famous definition of culture) that emerges from particular conditions and trajectories does become a force which also shapes history.
Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilisational Factors in CPC Governance

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