Posts in Politics

House Passes BailOut of Insurance Companies Bill

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... [+]

Identifying MacroStructual Trends in Asian Economies

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... [+]

On/Off – Imperialism by Leon Kuhn

The best new media political work I have seen this week: Courtesy: Leon Kuhn

North Korea Is Not a Threat – Unveiling Hegemonic Discourses

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,... [+]

One year on … Ode for the broken wrist and the crisis of our healthcare system

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... [+]

B-I-T-C-H – A Personal Statement on International Women’s Day

“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’... [+]

Brand Obama - No You Can't

Brand Obama – No You Can’t

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... [+]

ICE Detaining Ukrainian Woman...

ICE Detaining Ukrainian Woman Willing and Paying to Leave the United States

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... [+]