Newtopia | Issue #12 - July/Aug 2003: "Empires"
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INTRODUCTION: The American Empire by Charles Shaw A detailed primer for this issue examining Pax Americana. |
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THE CRUDE TRUTH by Charles Shaw & Henry Quentin Jones World trade is now a game in which the US produces dollars and the rest of the world produces things that dollars can buy...like oil. This is the story of the Petrodollar, the true Governor General of the Empire, and the force that makes the US supreme. |
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THE BUSH EMPIRE by Charles Shaw How four generations of arms, oil, fascism, and US Govt. defiance made America's First Family |
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THE RUSE OF EMPIRE by Dianna and Michael Weinstein We've got a new word - actually a very old and tired one -to fix the zeitgeist and relieve ourselves of the need to think. EMPIRE. |
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IS TIME ALMOST UP? by Nancy T. Robinson The Fall of the New York Times |
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TWILIGHT OF THE AIRWAVES by Michael Calerone Deregulation and the American Media Empire |
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RED DUSK by Veronica Khokhlova A Ukrainian Expat takes a train ride through the remnants of the Soviet Empire. |
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HOLY WARS by Brian Clardy, PhD The Truth About Evangelicals and Compassionate Conservatism |
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1929/435: EMPIRE BY REPRESENTATION by Bryan Brickner, PhD Representative Government was America's invention. Too bad she never practiced it. |
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KAHLIL GIBRAN by Rajgopal Nidamboor 80 Years After the Prophet |
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DYNAMIC COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES by James H. Bath A Worldwide Revolution in Progress |
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SAMORI ET TURNER: THE SCOUNDRELS GLORIFIED by Akin Olatidoye Revisiting The Lone Heroes Of Black History |
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THE HEART OF A SATURDAY NIGHT: AMSTERDAM by Colin Shea Former slave trading Empire is now progressive vice colony populated by mindful internationals. |
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THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION IN THE WORLD'S NEWEST EMPIRE by Gene Hetzel Prostitution in Nevada |
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MAGNUM DICTUM: THE VICEROY'S SIESTA by Marcus Reichert Feature Poetry by poet-in-residence Marcus Reichert |
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LIBERALISM AND LITERATURE by Daniel Green The real damage that has been inflicted by the academic left lies in the extent to which it has managed to simplistically politicize academic scholarship. |
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OF SYNTHESIS AND EMPIRICAL METAMORPHOSIS by Hiren K. Bose The Mughal Empire |
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THE EXHAUSTED DREAM by Glenn Brigaldino The cliché of the "American Dream" is an ideological concept that has long surpassed its zenith |
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 INTIFADA JOURNALS: A Voice From Jerusalem From the shattered streets of Israel and the Occupied Territories comes a vivid account of one man's anguish and determination to make sense of a conflict seemingly without end. Living at the very heart of East Jerusalem, Henry Carse, writer, practical theologian, scholar, and father of four children living amidst the mayhem, ventures out to engage with Israeli and Palestinian friends alike to starkly reveal the desperation and hope that thrive in that barren place. |
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X. - PERFECTLY SAFE RUBBLE |
 COVERING THE CREATIVE ECONOMY |
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II. - WHAT IS THE CREATIVE ECONOMY? |
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FIVE MEDITATIONS ON THE NEW AMERICAN EMPIRE by Ronnie Pontiac |
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IGNORE THE GATE by Jeff Conant |
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VOICE LOST AND FOUND by Shalaka Patil |
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THE EMPIRE WRITES BACK by Rajgopal Nidamboor Review of Lawrence James' "Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India" |
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SIDE EFFECT by Greg Everett Fiction by Greg Everett |
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TODAY'S EMPIRE by Michael Calderone Niall Ferguson' Empire lauds Britain's influence upon the modern world |
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BUZZWORDS WEST by Greg Farnum Cultural news and scenes from across America |
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AZERT IS! by Alan C. Baird ("Despite everything..!") |
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CINEMASHRINK by Dr. Jane Alexander Stewart An Essay on Y Tu Mama Tambien |
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THEY'RE HERE, THEY'RE QUEER, THEY'RE APPLE PIE! GET OVER IT! by Kim Nichols, with photos by Charles Shaw How Influential is the Gay community? |
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POSTER PROJECT INSPIRED BY THE DESIGN OF CHARLES WILKIN by Kim Nichols An Open Call To Graphic Designers |