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Political Theater in Nepal Is Driving Citizen Flight

July 13/23 by Barbara Nimri Aziz With unwelcome regularity, every few months Kathmandu Valley experiences a nationally watched theatrical production. This month’s will surely be unrivalled. Yet, each…

A Short Conversation about Malcolm X

June 22/23 by B Nimri Aziz (also appearing in Counterpunch) “I’ve been rereading The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, I volunteered. It was a spontaneous announcement after Jim, my…

A Special Place on The Edge of Kathmandu 1983-2023

by Barbara Nimri Aziz, 06.19.23 (published in Nepal 06.17.23 by ekantipur) In 1983 when Sukanya Waiba and her sister Parijat Lama founded what’s now known as Amrit Secondary…

A Reality Check on Our Polarized Lives.

May 26, by B Nimri Aziz. also on Counterpunch and River Reporter Arriving for my bone density test at a downstate New York hospital, I’m delighted to again…

Syria, Alas. Is There Reason for Optimism?

May 15, 2023 By B Nimri Aziz Counterpunch We have a stingy agreement from most Arab League countries that Syria, one of its founding members, one of the…

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela Revisited

By BNimri Aziz 04/27/23 It was only when I started reading a collection of this remarkable African leader’s prison letters (records from 1962 to 1990) gathered in a…

Where should Palestinians Search for Justice?

by BNimri Aziz, March 8, 2023 (see also Counterpunch) A London hospital removes Palestinian children’s art because it upset some patients. Meanwhile, seemingly unassociated, far away in The…

Menacing Winter Wonder

by BNimri Aziz Feb 5, 2023 Counterpunch Those images from the December blizzard engulfing Buffalo in upstate New York were shocking. Hard to grasp the reality. That ghostliness…

Syria Held Hostage

by B Nimri Aziz, Feb 12, 2023 Counterpunch Perhaps the most agonizing experience for a family, for any bystander, even for humanitarian professionals, is a double tragedy—a death…

What Was That Biden Said About Ending the War?

an assessment of a president’s statement of wanting to end the war, with his announcement of giving dozens of Abrams tanks to Ukraine