I’m posting this video because I thought Women and War might find it interesting, and I think I’ll pick this up myself. Band of Sisters is a new book by Kirsten Holmstedt on female combatants in the Iraq War.
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So what do we call terraforming gone wrong?
Terraforming: the transformation of one kind of space into another, non-native form. The intersection of material power and imagination. Manifest destination.
Strange Maps comes with another fabulous map, this one of “US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs.” It got me thinking on how many of the realities that shape our lives, particularly large-scale ones, are often difficult to grasp because some phenomena just have have too many strands, or are simply too abstract for conscious recognition. We can intellectualize them, and might have some vague sense we are affected by them, but the what of it– that’s the hard part. Read the rest of this entry »
Speaking of dreaming for a better world, and how hard the world makes dreams: Cindy Sheehan has announced that she will no longer allow herself to be the face of the anti-war movement. Here is the beginning of her letter, reproduced here from her online diary @ Daily Kos
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