Category Archives: Socio-Politico Rants

Mobile posting. Just had a thought about its been so long since glutter had one of those everyone comes out of the wood works and snipe politely at each other for days while busting out obscure words theories and writers socio political debates. Which i always so so appreciate because it reminds me how myContinue reading “So what will make all of you come out and argue?”

Socio-political rants I am currently reading John Gray’s “Al Qaeda and What it Means to Be Modern” and one of the ruling premise of the book is that “modern thought” is a purely western paradigm -a holdover from enlightenment. It has left many of us and most notably Americans feel that technology will create aContinue reading “What if the 90s was just an anomaly and we are destined for a conservative future?”

Recently I have been thinking a lot about Canada, it’s a democracy, it has free speech, it has socialized medicine, clean water, extremely left and liberal, not many gun deaths, according to Michael Moore, people can leave their doors unlocked. Most of the Canadians I have met tend to be chilled, polite, genial and easyContinue reading “So why exactly does Canada have to be COLD?”

The recent links on Times of Tibet, EastSouthWestNorth and salon blogs have sent over some new readers, who are adding perspectives on things that the glutter crew usually digs their teeth into. Here are the two most interesting conversations that is going on right now. Hopefully by putting them back up on top we canContinue reading “Conversing on Orientalism.”

Socio-political rants. Lately I have been having a change of mind about the American occupation in Iraq. With the assassination of the Izzedin Salim . It reminded me how those who used to be in power would always use force, assassination and fear to keep themselves in power. And as I watch China approach andContinue reading “I changed my mind and support the invasion of Iraq…”

Social Political Rants This Easter I realized that it’s not that I don’t believe in god. I truly feel there is a greater force than myself and each person. It’s just that I refuse to have anything to do with religion and definitely will never convert the Christianity. And much like my relative who triedContinue reading “Easter Epiphany”

Today is the first anniversary of the “fall” of Baghdad. Rahul Mahajan, an American writer and activist, is blogging from Iraq until April 25. http://www.empirenotes.org One of the writers for Merging Boundaries is Raed Jarrar. He is a 26 years old Iraqi-Palestinian architect working for an NGO and living in Baghdad with his family. HisContinue reading “On the Ground in Iraq”

Have some extra server space? Want to help out Banned China bloggers? ADOPT A BLOG! Introduction The Adopt a Blog project began in response to the second major blocking measure taken by the government of the People’s Republic of China against blogging services. The first such measure was taken against Blogger’s free Blogspot hosting serviceContinue reading “ADOPT A BLOG PROJECT”

Typepad blocked in China: an update Guardian We Blog March 29: I’ve just heard from Typepad (Mena Trott, via a Sixapart PR) that, as was suspected, Typepad sites in China are being blocked by the government (see March 26), ruling out a technical problem at the provider end. Typepad is ‘working to get the blocksContinue reading “Typepad Admits to Banning in China”