In both the looting and the aftermath, a prompt to re-imagine our democracy
18 July 2021 - 00:01
And here endeth the lesson for a naive young democracy whose self-defeating economic structure and spineless, venal politicians sustain an island of prosperity amid a teeming sea of desperate, jobless people...
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