As a result of a globalizing world economy, the inter-connectedness of derivatives-driven markets, resource-defined ecologies, rigged trade agreements, and shock-and-awe speculation, the West is once again violently crashing into the East—no thanks to the western mainstream media for having failed to stir up the dregs of rice bowls now empty of easily discarded truth.
Climate Crisis in Bangladesh
Photographs by Probal Rashid
A growing number of youths are spending their lives on the streets of Cambodia's cities and towns, trying to survive while desperately attempting to numb the pain of their pasts. The United Nations has estimated that as many as half a million people in Cambodia may be drug users. But rehabilitation often comes in the form of hard labor and military drills.
"As it would be for any nation struggling under the weight of government corruption—as well as the forces of an encroaching globalization... "the battle between man vs. man has been compounded exponentially by nature throwing its weight into the situation. "The people of Nepal, now living in tent cities, live in fear of landslides, chronic homelessness, water and food shortages, outbreaks of disease, aftershocks or, even worse, another earthquake."
Caracas has one of the highest murder rates globally and, since 2008, continues to reel from a flagging economy that is largely dependent on oil revenue. Venezuela is the original home of 19th-century liberator Simón Bolívar, but has barely survived the policies of both Presidents Maduro and Chávez. At street-level, livable standards are out of reach for far too many Caracans, and cases of violent crimes committed against ordinary people commonly remain unsolved by police.
Moscow: the name evokes an aura of poetic and historical connotations. A resident of the great city, photographer Nina Ai-Artyan captures its endless streets full of lingering history. The great filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein stated perhaps too accurately: "Language is much closer to film than is painting." Ai-Artyan captures those ineffable moods which the great Russian writers attempted to in words; alongside her images are the thoughts and ideas of the voices of the characters of Akhamatova, Dostoevski, Tsvetaeva, Chekhov, Berberova and Turgenev, as well as of the authors themselves.
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"I believe it is always necessary to remember and never forget the horrors of the second world war. This war is important for its survivors in order to describe the darkness and the limits of those who were not capable of acceptance."
— Nicoleta Gabor
“I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics... I am a Chilean who for decades has known the misfortunes and difficulties of our national existence and who has taken part in each sorrow and joy of the people."
— Pablo Neruda
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