Utopias and Dystopias and Cooperation with China (tags)
Joe Biden and his foreign policy team are in many ways still entrenched in the Cold War era, and his administration has generally taken a far more antagonistic stance toward China than Obama.
for Walton
Karl Schroeder, scifi/fantasy writer (tags)
Interview with Karl Schroeder about scifi/fantasy, the end of the Modern/Postmodern age, Foresight Studies, health care, the world is getting better.
smart analysis of america as the war culture
Bush jr begins his second term between fantasy and reality6. More wars threaten instead of freedom and democracy.. Permanent war also prevailed in "1984". The "Ministry for Truth" was responsible for propaganda lies and torture.
a deep look at american society and its descent into a war culture
Protest Aesthetics- What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas (tags)
From Issue 3 of The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Street Theater and the left in general needs a new relationship with "the truth".
9/11: THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF INSANITY (tags)
DANGEROUS FANTASIES...
An imagistic statement on the condition of war and meltdown of the American Dream.
There is quite a bit of fantasy going on here about Islam. Time for a reality check.
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (tags)
Living in a post-9/11 cloud...
Twenty Years On, Sharon Is Up To No Good (tags)
Today, instead of 2,000 fantasy "terrorists", he's invented 2,000 fantasy missiles and has been telling the Americans the same rubbish about Arafat's "terror" links. In all seriousness, the Los Angeles Times yesterday carried a headline that Mr Sharon was "pitching retaliation" as a possible policy. Pitching? Policy? If Mr Sharon is looking for a "green light", he may get it.