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Category: Nationalism
Critique of Borders – Canada no longer visible from Derby Line, Vermont
Since this site is called ‘No Borders and Binaries,’ lets revisit the philosophy behind that term. The creation of a bordered world is a deliberate attempt to divide, contain and isolate communities, to forget about arbitrary and ‘disorderly’ origins, in Read More …
The Invisibles that Made the Beijing Games – Dark Side of the Olympics
I mentioned earlier that the computer-generated 55-second video footage of giant fireworks on film at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was pure simulacrum–with no relation to ‘reality.’ It turns out that there was more “staging” than meets the Read More …
No Building a Wall Through the Middle of a College Campus
Lets set aside the larger issues concerning the construction of the $49 billion border fence along U.S.-Mexico; pretend for a moment that debates over efficiency, cost, the environment, property rights, detrimental political and symbolic messages just do not exist when it Read More …
Study – Majority legal residents were "illegal" at one time – California
It appears that most things don’t happen in a STRAIGHT line (neither do brain waves and heart beats FYI). After my constant repetition of “undocumented or illegal is not a permanent immutable characteristic” this past week, the Public Policy Institute Read More …
Truths and (then some more truths) – Immigration and Neo-Liberalism
I found this written as a letter to the New York Times. Lets put my intellectual disagreement with grand truths and meta narratives aside for the moment. Truths: (1) The United States cannot support the rest of the world. (2) Read More …