- Scocca : Would a No-Fly Zone Over America Save the Democracy Movement in Bahrain?
- The helpful thing, if you're overwhelmed by so much news going on at once, is that Bahrain is roughly the same story as Libya—only instead of pro-democracy protesters being murdered by a terrorist-sponsoring monster of a dictator who has been on America's enemies list for ages, the pro-democracy protesters are being murdered by a government that is America's very own dear ally. And where Qaddafi brought in foreign mercenaries for support, King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa of Bahrain brought in troops from our even more vital ally, Saudi Arabia.
- Baby Camel in the Minnesota Snow
- [ZooBorns - Andrew Bleiman]
- Will Attack the Block’s British accents get subtitles in the U.S.? Director Joe Cornish answers!
- [io9 - Meredith Woerner]
There's been a lot of controversy surrounding Joe Cornish's UK-based alien adventure film Attack The Block lately. Specifically, will his working class British characters need subtitles for American audiences? We asked the director directly…
- Narrative warfare: Operation Sockpuppet
- [Futurismic - Paul Raven]
It’s all coming out about Operation Sockpuppet, sorry, Operation Earnest Voice, the Pentagon’s online psyops software grab … I’ll look forward to the concise explanation of how this is totally different to the sort of state espionage upon civilians that goes on in China (which I expect will boil down to “it’s bad because it’s Them doing it”).
…That’s pretty much an open admission that modern warfare is fought with stories for weapons. Granted, a close reading of history will show you that’s always been the case, but the internet provides unprecedented new opportunities for weaponizing narrative… which means we need to wrestle ownership of the world’s narrative back from those who want to write hackneyed and blood-spattered rise-of-the-Roman-Empire stories over and over again.
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- Bernadette Devlin
- [About.com Women's History]
Northern Ireland's radical activist and feminist Bernadette Devlin was the youngest woman elected to the British Parliament when she was first elected in 1969.
- Nearly all of Texas’ anti-abortion subcontractors are Christian groups | The American Independent
- [I'm shocked. -L.]
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