America is awesome The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great.” Toward that end, the president issued an executive order declaring that the extra-constitutional prison [...]
Right! I’ve finally got round to posting some photos of the Silent Pictures Exhibition at the James Gallery of the Graduate Center of CUNY James Gallery Entrance . Silent Pictures entry & Small Zines by Robert Breer . lots of people . a bookshelf of Anthologies . Silent Pictures Programme booklet . Art Spiegelman’s collection [...]
Brilliant article on Kiwipolitico about the coarsening of American politics In the US, a return to primordialism. In retrospect, it seems obvious. Given the venomous attacks on Barack Obama in the 2008 election campaign, the move towards a “post-racial” society was never going to happen. Instead the reverse transpired, with race, religion and ethnicity now [...]
Mad, grim and funny. Koichi Toyama’s Candidate speech for the American 2008 Presidential campaign. Found via Undulating Ungulate, thanks Billy .
Alarmist agitprop about how America is falling behind the rest of the world. It does talk about how different ways of teaching kids effects their ability to be creative. I found these bits the most interesting. Having studied the childhoods of highly creative people for decades, Claremont Graduate University’s Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and University of Northern [...]
This is really interesting. What’s funny, it really doesn’t matter who you vote for in America; Democrat or Republican because they both long ago sold out the American people. Maybe, maybe that applies to most if not all Western Democracies… even here in New Zealand. Thanks Poltical Elites of the world. Thanks Tao Wells! and [...]
How America Criminalised Poverty. Grim stuff, but worth a read. What its like to be poor in the greatest nation that ever lived. Here is a quote: “Can you imagine?” asked Eric Sheptock, the homeless advocate (himself a shelter resident) who introduced me to Szekeley. “They arrested a homeless man in a shelter for being homeless?” And [...]
A fascinating article about America’s secret armies, a must read even. I find this article alarming there seems to be no transparent oversite. How is extra-legal “kill/capture” a good thing? Somewhere on this planet a US commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you’re done … for the day. Without the knowledge [...]
Lawrence O’donnell from MSNBC show The Last Word explaining how it is. Real interesting stuff especially towards the end where he looks at the wider issue of excessive police force in the States.
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