Chasing Dragons

Weekend Reading v. 135

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Airforce Drone Operators Report High Levels of Stress' by Elisabeth Bumiller at nytimes.com

• 'Against All Odds: How "Crazy" Kim Jung Il Outfoxed the World' by Howard W. French at atlantic.com

• 'Social Media in the 16th Century: How Luther Went Viral' at economist.com

• 'Smoke Screen' by Charles C. Mann at vanityfair.com

Peace on earth and goodwill to all humans.

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 92

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Shia-Sunni Schism Explained from Lebanon to Bahrain' by Haroon Siddiqui at thestar.com

• 'How to Make Anything Signify Anything' by William H. Sherman at cabinetmagazine.org

• 'Drug Poliy: Lessons Learnt and Options for the Future' by Mike Trace at idpc.net

• 'Just How Damaging Will the Coming Cuts Be? Ask the IMF' by Duncan Weldon at falseeconomy.org

• 'Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on US Senators' by Michael Hastings at rollingstone.com

Have a good weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 72

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press' by Jay Rosen at pressthink.org

• 'The Pope and the Axis of Terror' by Adam Curtis at themedium_andthemessage

• 'State Secrets Again' by Jeremy Crampton at opengeography

• 'Three Challenges for Ed Milliband' at leftfootforward.org

• 'What Christian Game Developers Consider Success' at gamepolitics.com

• 'Unmanned Drones May be Used for Police Surveillance' by Owen Bowcott and Paul Lewis at guardian.co.uk

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 69

This weekend, in the reading roundup:

• 'Spin War Shift: NATO Now Bragging About Afghan Airstrikes' by Spencer Ackerman at dangerroom

• 'The Source of the Deficit' by Michael Burke at leftfootforward.org

• 'Hallowed Ground, Wordly City: Ground Zero and the Struggle for Lower Manhattan' by James Sanders at designobserver.com

• 'God and Politics, Together Again' by Sam Tanenhaus at nytimes.com

• 'What Britain Could Learn From Portugal's Drug Policy' by Peter Beaumont at theobserver

• 'Tony Blair: Everybody's a Critic' at themediablog

For those in North America, enjoy the long weekend!

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Weekend Reading Roundup v. 51

This weekend in the reading roundup:

• 'Standing Up to Standing Up' by August J. Pollak at someguywithawebsite.com (one of the most sensible commentaries on the Danish cartoons/South Park controversies. Plus the accompanying comic is aces too)

• 'Calypso Magic' by Mukul Kesavan at thehindu (a treatise on West Indian cricket by an Indian supporter. Sports writing at its best).

• 'UK Media and the Election' from the mediablog.co.uk

• 'UK Media Bias: BBC and Channel 4 beat SKY and ITV for political balance' again from the mediablog.co.uk

• The Vigilante Journalist conducts an investigation into how a photojournalist managed to capture images of alleged Ugandan child sacrifice victims. The results raise a series of ethical considerations (here and here)

Have a good bank holiday weekend!

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