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Circus Bazaar Magazine is proud to release the 2nd episode of the “Big Tent” Podcast series with Editor Shane Alexander Caldwell sitting down to talk with the Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, Chris Layne. Topics of discussion include the rise of China, whether the United States is in relative decline and the current state of global politics.
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Awaiting the outcome of his secret trial in a cold Soviet prison, the Old Bolshevik Rubashov reflects on a long and bloody career as Party revolutionary. In his meditations, Rubashov attempts to make sense of the arc of history.
Continue Reading Rubashov, Koestler, and the Theory of Relative Maturity
The war between Russia and Ukraine is not an ordinary conflict between two states. The men (and women) across the trenches speak the same language, share the same traditions, and their faces also look very similar.
In 1994, I hitchhiked to Ukraine. A long-haired high school student, I was eager to explore what my whole life had lain beyond the family’s holiday plans. For us, children of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was something colourless, menacing and intriguingly off limits.
Data isn’t going away. That much is clear. Short of a solar flare, societal collapse or extinction event, data will continue to underwrite the twenty-first century information economy.
Continue Reading The Cracks are Beginning to Show in the Big Data Monolith
Ukrainian identity is being reinvented by war. Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy…
Continue Reading Ukraine: trying to make sense of identity and war in the age of the smartphone
The conflict in Ukraine offers unexpected insight into a military construct which has previously been mostly theoretical. The scenario of Ukrainian ground forces fighting beneath an information domain dominated almost exclusively by American intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, while no US forces fight in the conflict, is what 1990s military theorists and strategists described as a ‘vertical coalition’.
France’s vocals are intent, holistic and purposeful. The lyrics are as they need to be, at times urgent, also reflective, on time or in the moment. The writing is mature and scripted and leaves openings for improvisation. The old school...
