Current Affairs
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45 Years
American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. – I Have a Dream “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, delivered 28 August 1963, at the…
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It’s the End of the World
R.E.M: It’s the End of the World – as interpreted by George Bush and the Americans… so to speak
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Indian Ocean, 26 December 2004
Latest Death Toll: 110,000 and rising… Photo via Heterotopias The Indian Ocean Earthquake is proving to be the event that finally turned the World Wide Web into THE mainstream media. All those books that we’ve been reading finally begin to make sense: The Tipping Point, The Wisdom of the Crowds and Small Pieces, Loosely Joined.…
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Indian Ocean, 26 December 2004
Latest Death Toll: 110,000 and rising… Photo via Heterotopias The Indian Ocean Earthquake is proving to be the event that finally turned the World Wide Web into THE mainstream media. All those books that we’ve been reading finally begin to make sense: The Tipping Point, The Wisdom of the Crowds and Small Pieces, Loosely Joined.…
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Democracy Matters
Image from the excellent “Ukraine Revolution” weblog. More pictures are now on Flickr. You can also find them if you search using the “Ukraine” tag
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“Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” — Theodore Roosevelt
Beacon: Paul D. Kretkowski This struck me as a pretty useful analysis of International Politics – but one that also has implications at a much broader level; I suspect that we have all played with Hard and Soft Power – if only with our children… Hard power is easy: Do what we want. If you…
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About Iraq…
These two links made me laugh. The first is a “version” of U2’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” as covered by George W Bush The second, a very nice piece of TV coverage from Jon Stewart. I found both links thanks to a prompt from David Smith at Preoccupations who was actually pointing me at “Jupiter” –…
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About Iraq…
These two links made me laugh. The first is a “version” of U2’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” as covered by George W Bush The second, a very nice piece of TV coverage from Jon Stewart. I found both links thanks to a prompt from David Smith at Preoccupations who was actually pointing me at “Jupiter” –…
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Blog This: New voices running the election
Times Online, Andrew Sullivan The two sides remain entrenched, their rhetorical sallies increasing in ferocity, their claims and counterclaims ricocheting through the political landscape. Democrats and Republicans? Nope: that’s so 2000. This time the war is between the new and the old media, between established pillars of journalism and a bunch of new, ornery and…
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Blog This: New voices running the election
Times Online, Andrew Sullivan The two sides remain entrenched, their rhetorical sallies increasing in ferocity, their claims and counterclaims ricocheting through the political landscape. Democrats and Republicans? Nope: that’s so 2000. This time the war is between the new and the old media, between established pillars of journalism and a bunch of new, ornery and…