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Mantas Balakauskas: letter from Rome

I’d really like to tell you everything
but there in the cities we once fully trusted
white noise dominates

November 13, 2025 · 2 Comments

Richard Horan: Notes from Il Campo

It’s carciofi (artichoke) season here in the Eternal City. Everywhere you go, those fat-stemmed, strongly evocative of Bacchus, violet-and-green buds are still-lifing the display tables out in front of every osteria and trattoria from Prati to San Saba.

March 4, 2023 · 2 Comments

Ramzy Baroud: Why the World Is Burning

Global warming is, in large part, the outcome of a destructive pattern instigated and sustained by capitalism. The latter can only survive through unhindered consumption, inequality, greed and, when necessary, war.

August 16, 2021 · 2 Comments

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