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Contributing Editor , aspiring peasant. Author: REBELS (2014)

Isle of Thanet
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    The "magic sphere of Helios", an ancient marble orb covered in strange symbols. Discovered in Athens in 1866, the purpose of the sphere is still unknown but it is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals. Acropolis Museum, Athens

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    11 hours ago

    I wrote for about the complex relationship between Islam and the Right, and how this manifests in dissident subcultures' support for the Taliban:

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    "He was a dairyman & about to get married."

    Thanks to social media this is one of the most famous battlefield relics from Napoleonic era. It captures the moment of a man's death. It is not a joke or a Monty Python sketch about a scratch. It might not seem so funny if we knew more about the man and his death. 1/10
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  4. 10 hours ago

    Pulling flax in Northern Ireland (Macmillan educational poster, 1950s)

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  5. 11 hours ago

    For things to stay the same, everything must change:

    A piece on the spiritual crisis threatening the future of the United Kingdom (featuring Butlin's, , The Leopard and much else...) The Dying Memory of Britain
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    Jan 4

    Looking over the top of the north Peloponnese, a few hours ago.

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    Jan 4

    It takes almost no training to recognize all but one word here, and the grammar is transparent except at the end. We always use Beowulf as our standard example of Old English, but that does a disservice to the real continuity of the language.

    Look familiar? This is an Old English version of the Romulus and Remus myth! The runes read: Rōmwalus and Rēomwalus, twēgen gebrōðera: fēdde hīe wylf in Rōmeceastre, ēðle unnēah: Romulus and Remus, twin brothers, a wolf fed them in Rome, far from home.
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    Problem: the US, including the military (eg F35), is currently about as dependent on TSMC as China is. Not sure that makes for robust deterrence

    “One key recommendation is for the U.S. and Taiwan to threaten to destroy facilities of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. -- the world's most important chipmaker and China's most important supplier -- if Beijing invades.”
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    Jan 4

    Someone asked me today what I want to do after I move on from , whenever that day comes (not in sight yet). This isn't a bad option

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    Jan 4

    The soldier wearing this body armour wasn’t wounded by the cannonball in question; he was totally eviscerated by it. He probably never knew what hit him and must have been quite close to the gun that fired the fatal shot.

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    Armor of a soldier wounded by a cannonball at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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    Serbia praises another arms shipment from Russia

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    Jan 4

    Mistaking the whole world as its sphere of influence during its apogee was surely one of the defining - and self-destructive - aspects of the Liberal International Order.

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    "Against the profiteers - vote Communist" — Poster published by the Communist Party of Belgium in 1954 showing politicians of the Liberal, Socialist and Christian Social parties gorging themselves on the great European Cheese.

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    Jan 4

    How close is America to a new civil war? connects ideas from , , , and :

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    With his support eroding, Erdogan faces a reckoning: in 2023, Turkey will hold an election that he is unlikely to win. But the Turkish president will do everything he can to stay in office, writes, and the opposition needs to be prepared.

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    Jan 4

    In "The Dawn of Everything," Graeber and Wengrow identify "three primordial freedoms": to move, to disobey, and to create or transform social relationships. But those who seem to value these freedoms now, I argue here, are not found on the anarchist left:

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    Jan 4

    Bull-leaping. Illustration by Rudolph F. Zallinger.

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    Jan 4

    Opposing "spheres of influence" is at best a way to refuse to recognize power realities, a naive insistence that US power is limitless, but it can also be a rationale for trying to upset or destabilize a local balance of power, which is quite dangerous.

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    Jan 4

    Twitter was invented so that I can read a thread about Kalmyks in Serbia.

    After revolution in Russia, many of the Russian White émigrés found their refuge in Serbia, among them were also Kalmyks. Thread:
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    Jan 3

    Become a China expert in 3 minutes.

    How to become much quoted and successful economic commentator on China. Follow these simple rules and you too can become a China pundit.
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