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 [...]