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By the Waters of Babylon: 10 years later
Author's note: I first posted this a few days after September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, it seems just as relevant today.MORE »
Mubarak and Murdoch: The Arab Spring gives way to the Anglo-American Summer
Picture it: a pair of aging despots, each in his 80s.
One of them has already witnessed the previously unthinkable unraveling of his evil empire. The other is witnessing the first irreversible steps in the previously unthinkable unraveling of his evil empire.MORE »
Independence Day for Thai Women: The luck of Yingluck Shinawatra
On Sunday, July 3 something truly remarkable happened in Thailand. The country woke up a venerable patriarchy and went to bed having elected the first female Prime Minister in the nation's history.
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Red Black and Blue: Anarchists get behind state GOP’s lawsuit
A new organization of radicals calling itself the Coalition for Restoring Anarchist Principles has come out with an endorsement of the Minnesota GOP’s lawsuit asking the State Supreme Court to order a shutdown of all Minnesota state government functions in the event that the Minnesota Legislator, controlled by the Republican Party, and DFL Governor Mark Dayton cannot rMORE »
Out of the closet: Michele Bachmann as new American boogeywoman
Over the past few weeks as Michele Bachmann’s star has risen in the firmament of GOP presidential hopefuls, I have been reading a flurry of emails, blogs, and Facebook status updates from fellow Minnesotans of a leftish bent decrying Bachmann not only for her extremist ideology but for being “insane” or “crazy.” Last week she was even treated to MORE »
The Recline of the West: striking out at Wat Po
A few days ago, I made a trip to Wat Po, a huge complex of Buddhist temples, stupas and learning halls attached to the Royal Palace in the center of Bangkok. I was there not to gain enlightenment, however, but a Thai massage. In the end, I got some of both.MORE »
The Ferry Godfather: a Bangkok misadventure
She was a young farang -- or Westerner -- and I could see that she was failing to make herself understood by the security guard at Bangkok's Thammasat University where I am newly installed as a research fellow.MORE »
Viva la Muerte: Mobs and Power in the US of A
In his masterpiece, Crowds and Power, Elias Canetti proposed that one of our primal fears is of unwanted contact with strangers. Out in public places, he observed, to be touch, jostled, even brushed against, can trigger something akin to panic.MORE »
Reflections in a Dark Mirror: GWB and OBL
Even before the sudden passing of The World’s Most Wanted Man, I was struck by how many parallels there are between the life and crimes, the individual and cultural pathologies, of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden.MORE »
From Fort Sumter to Fort Knox: The Slave Power shall rise again
April 2011 marked the anniversary of the two most seminal events in American history.
Naturally enough, both involve violence.MORE »
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