State of the World 2013: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky

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Sex, drugs and rock and roll: Australia's other boom

Australia: A poisonous year in politics

'How does one expel a penis ghost?'

Bliadhna mhath ùr! (Lang may your lum reek)

Trevor Brown
Happy Thirteen XXX

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Exile's End of Year List

2012
My top 5 albums:
#5-2
(in no particular order)
Swans: The Seer/Wadada Leo Smith: Ten Freedom Summers/Mark Lanegan Band: Blues Funeral/Scott Walker: Bisch Bosh
#1
Bvdub: All Is Forgiven
Best Box: Can's Lost Tapes
Best 12": Burial - Kindred
Embarrassment of the year:
Dexy's Midnight Runners comeback
Cover version of the year:

In depth quality journalism at its finest from Murdoch's flagship Australian paper

Dim Stars - Monkey/The Night Is Coming On (Live 1991)

Richard Hell - Thurston Moore - Don Fleming - Steve Shelly

Ghosts Of Abu Ghraib (2007)

Award winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy explores the human and political consequences of one of the most bitter scandals of the war in Iraq in this feature. In the 1960′s, a prison was built in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city west of Baghdad, and during the regime of Saddam Hussein it became a center of torture and abuse where political dissidents were subjected to agonizing punishment or death.
Following the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, the prison was taken over by American military authorities, and was used as a holding facility for prisoners of war and suspected terrorists captured by U.S. forces.
The prison's reputation as a site of widespread abuse rose again when journalists discovered photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and humiliated in an ugly variety of ways by American soldiers, a scandal which had a major impact on international thinking about the war.
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib offers an in-depth look at the story behind the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, featuring interviews with observers on both sides of the national divide. Ghosts of Abu Ghraib received its world premiere in 2007.

How The Huffington Post ate the Internet

To avoid further deaths like Nirbhaya's, here's what the political class must do

RIP Nirbhaya

Google India pays tribute to Delhi's braveheart
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Bollywood films sanctify pestering and stalking of women

10 reasons why India has a sexual violence problem

The gatekeepers?

...These figures present Israel (and the world ) with a very disturbing and frightening picture. It is no longer only Israel's detractors who are comparing the Israel Defense Forces with the Nazis. Now, albeit with certain reservations, Avraham Shalom is doing so as well. No longer is it only Israel's despised leftists who brandish the prophecies of philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz about the corrosive effects of the occupation and its power to turn Israel into a "Shin Bet state"; now, with certain reservations, Yuval Diskin admits it as well - and both Shalom and Diskin ignore the fact that they were among the parties who were responsible for the transgression.

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#FucktheNRA

Art Spiegelman

I did this New Yorker cover in 1993. Colombine happened in 1999, Newton in 2012, nearly 20 years later. My wish for 2013: let Newton be remembered as the turning point—I'm hoping that kids with guns can become ironic again.
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