Cultural Politics… On the Events in Egypt 11 Feb 201111 Feb 2011 I ride a train some mornings, hurtling south in darkness toward the port of Tacoma, past shadowed bridges, around fields glazed with frost, through tentative and unheard bird songs. Today,…
Sino-North Korean relations… Chess Match: North Korean Endgame in Toronto 28 Jun 201028 Jun 2010 Today in one of Germany's leading newspapers, the Suddeutsche Zeiting, underneath coverage of the G-20 meeting in Toronto (with optimistic headlines like "In the Canadian wilderness, Merkel and Obama demonstrate…
American Foreign Policy… China-Iran-Russia: Geopolitics and Soft Power 12 Dec 2009 Via Professor Juan Cole's groundbreaking Informed Comment website, an illustrated commentary on Sino-Iranian relations by Pepe Escobar in France (in English): Then, via Al Jezeera's English service, a short report…
American Foreign Policy… I Saw This Coming in 1935 24 Sep 2009 Scene: Kennedy-era Post Office in Tacoma, Washington. An overcast, cool day. People stand in line, shuffling through envelopes tangled with rubber bands and loopy writing. I am preparing a small…
Cultural Politics… Nazi Propaganda and Fox News 24 Aug 200924 Aug 2009 In researching a previous post, I became curious about the following image used by Glenn Beck in his bizarre equation of President Obama's health care legislation with Nazi eugenics policies:…
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