Take Action
Categories
- Academic Conferences
- All things LGBT
- Anti-Capitalism
- Canada
- CODEPINK
- Desi-Indian
- DesiPundit
- Discourse Studies
- Ebooks
- Education
- Environment
- Ethnic Studies
- Fiji Coup Coverage
- Gender
- Home Mortgage Crisis
- Human Rights
- Immigration
- Law school
- Moron of the Week
- Nationalism
- Political Theory
- Politics
- Quote of the Week
- Racism
- Site Updates
- Sports
- travel
- Videos
Posts in Politics
House Passes BailOut of Insurance...
November 7, 2009
The House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962 (Affordable Health Care for America Act) known here as a bailout for private insurance companies, in what is lauded as a victory for Obama and health care in America. I’ll be damned. The only worthwhile compromise is that the... [+]
0
07Nov
Identifying MacroStructual Trends in...
October 28, 2009
This post recognizes the error in assuming that all Asian countries are undergoing similar socio-cultural-economic processes and placing diverse Asian countries on the same trajectory of development. That said, when identifying and ranking important macro-structural trends in Asia, one must keep in mind the larger context... [+]
0
28Oct
On/Off - Imperialism by Leon Kuhn
June 11, 2009
The best new media political work I have seen this week: Courtesy: Leon Kuhn
0
11Jun
North Korea Is Not a Threat -...
April 5, 2009
That security is socially constructed does not mean that there are not to be found real, material conditions that help to create particular interpretations of threats, or that such conditions are irrelevant to either the creation or undermining of the assumptions underlying security policy. Enemies,... [+]
5
05Apr
One year on ... Ode for the broken...
April 3, 2009
It’s one whole year today since the fateful day that someone broke my wrist. Maybe it is a good thing that I don’t even remember who it was and precisely how it happened. All I was doing is blocking a close range shot and ’snap.’ The... [+]
2
03Apr
B-I-T-C-H - A Personal Statement on...
March 7, 2009
“You are an AAPI. But you are not a model minority. You talk back. And, you are queer.” And I am also a womyn, which matters a whole lot. Lets set aside those dry, boring intellectual blog posts for a moment. How do you get someone to ‘obey’... [+]
2
07Mar
Brand Obama - No You Can't
February 2, 2009
President Obama’s popular appeal makes him a dream for marketing companies looking to siphon profits by using his image and rhetoric. So it should come as no surprise that the White House is looking into copyrighting “brand Obama.” “Our lawyers are working on developing a... [+]
0
02Feb
ICE Detaining Ukrainian Woman...
December 30, 2008
This one should outrage every American taxpayer. She served jail time for a conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. She had a detainer placed on her by ICE, so after she was done serving this time, ICE came to the jail and took her to Fairfax, VA... [+]
11
30Dec