Sunday, June 29, 2008 Diagnosis: Mass Media Overdose
Hypermediation: (or. French, c. 1980) meaning "too many Big Macs for the eyes and ears is bad for the brain"
Saturday, June 28, 2008 Buying Power: The Sale of the Empire (9 comments)
"But where was the Roman people to be found? Not surely amongst the mixed multitude of slaves and strangers that filled the streets of Rome; a servile populace, as devoid of spirit as destitute of property."
Monday, June 9, 2008 The Urgency of Impeachment (2 comments)
As the Democrats are now coalescing around the Obama camp, discussing VP candidates and mending fences with Clintonians, it is important that we take care not to overlook the activities of the Cheney administration and their apologists in the supposedly Democratic Congress, ignoring the all-too-obvious signs that neo-conservatives (and their neo-liberal counterparts I might add) are scrambling to make sure that the military conflicts raging in Central Asia and the Middle East continue unhindered by the next administration and under the close supervision of war profiteers and predatory global financiers and institutions, who could undermine the next president in the region as they are the ones who directly manage and oversee the perpetuation of conflict.
