This is the second of a series of posts on free culture and podcasting. I’ll be pulling out some of my favourite podcasts for discussion and highlighting some of the best podcasting available in the commons. [One: Canada's Robert J. Sawyer on TVO's Big Ideas]
Free Culture Podcasts: Two
Linda McQuaig on Canadian Voices 3: Holding the [...]
Empire or Humanity? at Mother Jones brings us the words of Howard Zinn in his essay, “What the classroom didn’t teach me about the American empire”. It is the week of publication for his new book A People’s History of American Empire, a new graphic novel treatment of his “People’s History” series.
I first [...]
Make that, what everyone should know about the Middle East.
Daniel Miessler has put together a very succinct and basic collection of facts about the Middle East. I imagine none of this comes as a surprise to this blog’s readers… but it’s incredibly clear and worth having on hand to forward when needed.
The first folks [...]
Trailer for Standard Operating Procedure a new Abu Ghraib documentary by award-winning Fog of War director Errol Morris.
S.F. Activists Use Twitter, Pirate Radio to Manage Anti-War Protesters: ‘What’s new in the last four years is the addition of the text messaging,’ says Taylor. ‘In the past, (street protest organizers) have had walkie-talkies out there and a bullhorn, but the people with the radios would always get arrested by the police.’
Via Threat Level
When Omar Khadr was 15, he was kidnapped and illegally imprisoned (pardon, extra-judicially detained) by the United States military. He has been held in Guantanamo Bay, as the last Westerner, since 2002 — after his seizure at an Afghanistan firefight between militants and U.S. troops. The (then) young Khadr was accused of throwing a grenade [...]
William F. Buckley Jr. is dead.
The man arguably founded neoconservatism. He should especially be remembered for that.
Founder of the National Review and binder of economic liberalism with classical conservatism. Buckley created the hypocritical paradox, bizarrely called neoconservatism, that now governs the continent It is a paradox that violently struggled, under his guidance, to [...]
Will.i.am and friends released the popular celebrity-grassroots “Yes We Can” Obama video. (I wrote about it here). The video, a quick viral sensation inspired lots of political remixing among non-celebrities (who apparently can still vote in the United States), both positive and negative.
The campaigns themselves are choosing political remixing as an effective way to [...]
Hey! Southern Neighbours! Thanks so much, Mr. President, for shooting down your highly classified spy satellite full of toxic hyrdazine over our Pacific Coast. Even though the risk to humans was infinitesimally small, we all know that you’ll pay any price to protect people from harm — not matter how remote or unlikely. [...]
2008 Statistics on American Politics on Facebook - Impressively thorough and well-researched.
Political prediction markets bet on Obama, Huckabee wins in Iowa - Clinton still leads in the general though… sigh.
Jamais Cascio on Geoengineering and Climate-based Warfare - Uh… happy new year?
Sydney Morning Herald has “Ten things that will change your future” - and [...]
