Chasing Dragons

Weekend Reading Roundup v. 44

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Waterboarding for Dummies' by Mark Benjamin at salon.com

• 'Phantom Eye Hydrogen Strato-Spy Drone Starts Building' by Lewis Page at theregister.co.uk (thanks to Martin Coward for the link!)

• 'The National Anthem' by Kyle Bachan at genderacrossborders.com

• 'Israeli Ad Riffs on Dubai Assassination' by Robert Mackey at nytimes.com

On a more positive note, Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums in the UK!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 43

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'The New Rules of War' by John Arquilla at foreignpolicy.com

• 'Social Networks and the War on Terror' by Martin Coward at martincoward.net

• 'The Year of the Drone' at newamerica.net [thanks to boingboing.net for the link]

• 'The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales' by John Hilton III and David Wiley at the Journal of Electronic Publishing [another find on boingboing.net]

And congratulations to David Campbell and Sharron Lovell on being awarded the 'Online excellence in projects for mid-sized websites' by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers at the 15th Annual Best in Journalism Competition for the multi-media project 'Living in the Shadows'.

Living in the Shadows: China's Internal Migrants from David Campbell on Vimeo.

Have a good weekend.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 42

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Israel Reveals New Drone Fleet That Can Reach Iran' at nytimes.com

• 'Explaining Broadly Understood' by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson at duckof minerva [or why mainstreamers in the discipline of international relations struggle with the concept (popular) culture]

• 'Lethal T-Square: Architecture, Violence, Renewal' by Keith Eggener at designobserver.com

• 'Death Wears Aqua Green' by Pete Brook at the always amazing  prisonphotography

Have a good weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 41

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• Hannah Arendt's 'Reflections on Violence'

• 'Yarl's Wood [Immigration Detention Centre] Children Face "Extreme Distress" Report Reveals' by Karen McVeigh from guardian.co.uk

• 'Are You Better Off than Your Parents Were?' by Catherine Rampell from Economix at nytimes.com (originally linked from sociologicalimages)

• 'Tout Augmente, Meme La Misere' at globalsociology.com

• Johan Gultang's 'Cultural Violence'

Some food for thought...

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 40

This weekend as a change of pace, we have a video roundup:

Have a good weekend!

Weekend Reading Roundup v.39

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Hamas: EU Must Stop Letting Israeli Spies Use Its Passports' by Leigh Phillips at the euobserver.com (thanks to Dr. Jocelyn Mawdsley for the link!)

• 'Born Poor?' by Corey Pein at the santafereporter (in particular, see the discussion of 'guard labour' based on research undertaken by Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev)

• 'Space: It's Still a Frontier' by Allison Arieff at nytimes.com (thanks to Dr. Matt Davies for the link)

• 'Superbowl History: "Our National Exaggeration" Through the Years' by Richard C. Crepeau at poppolitics.com

Have a terrific weekend (and go Colts!)

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 38

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Mad Men 2.0' by David Sirota at inthesetimes.com

• 'The Iliad and What it Can Still Tell Us About War' by Charlotte Higgins at guardian.co.uk

• 'Buying You: The Government's Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about "The People"' by Joshua L. Simmons, Columbia Law School via ssrn.com

• 'The Convoy to Nowhere' by Peter van Agtmael at wsj.com

Keep safe everyone.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 37

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Dudeism, the faith that abides in the Big Lebowski' by Ben Walters via guardian.co.uk

• 'Taki183 Interview' by Roger Gastman at ilovegraffiti.de (Taki183 was one of the progenitors of the emerging graffiti scene in New York during the early 1970s).

• Excellent discussions of media representations of the Haitian disaster, the role of photojournalism, and the political implications of both from bagnewsnotes, (notes on) politics, theory & photography, and duckrabbit.info

• 'Cricket Team Snub Reeks of Politics to Pakistanis' by Lydia Polgreen and Hari Kumar via nytimes.com

Have a good weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 35

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Why Playing in the Virtual World has an Awful Lot to Teach Children' by Tom Chatfield via guardian.co.uk

• 'In Sierra Leone, Pop Music is a Beat that Drives Politics' by Scott Craft via latimes.com

• An Interview with Prof. Barry Buzan via theory-talks.org

• 'Inside the World's Newest Police State' by Jeremy Kryt via inthesetimes.com

Have a good weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 34

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Cameron's plan to plunder the oeuvre of Simon Cowell' by Marina Hyde at guardian.co.uk

• 'Obama and Afghanistan: America's Drug Corrupted War' by Peter Dale Scott at globalresearch.ca (thanks to TransformDrugs for the link!)

• Canadian Prime Minister suspends Parliament in order to dodge investigations into a cover-up of Afghan prisoner torture and to fill Senate seats with patronage appointments unopposed at thestar.com

• 'How to Destroy the Book' by Cory Doctorow: Part I and Part II via thevarsity.ca

Have a good weekend and a happy new year!

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