Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
OK--let's go back and read The Good Earth--which I read in Burma when Iwas 10-12 years old--and The Thorn Birds which I read in America in the 1980s,while working on an Ivy LeaguePh.D.--
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Earth-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/0743272935/ref=asc_df_0743272935/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693409812949&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2663830802451019462&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-435415167115&psc=1&mcid=e3d80a4040723842bd290f439a6cb892&gad_source=1
Intel assessment warns against conflating legal anti-Musk protests with vandalism--
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/tesla-protests-vandalism-musk.html
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