Third Superpower

bq. Outside the US, most people believe the planet recently suffered a massive, bomb-flinging breakdown in the new world order. The news is worse: There never was any order to break down. If the war in Iraq had gone badly for the US, the world would now be staring into an abyss, a pit of [...]

bq. As the Bush administration sought global support for its attack on Iraq, the New York Times wrote, “The fracturing of the Western alliance over Iraq and the huge antiwar demonstrations around the world this weekend are reminders that there may still be two superpowers on the planet: the United States and world opinion.” But [...]

!http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/images/corriewithflag.jpg(Rachel Corrie burning flag in effigy)!In “Slander(Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right)”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400046610/qid=1052593163/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-9620095-2164842?v=glance&s=books&n=507846, Ann Coulter talks about how many people think of White Supremacists (like “David Duke(David Duke: In His Own Words)”:http://www.adl.org/special_reports/duke_own_words/duke_intro.asp and “Robert Byrd(More Congressional Dems Defend Byrd’s KKK Ties)”:http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2002/9/27/11633) as some sort of an extreme right wing branch of the Republican Party, even [...]

Adam Greenfield has written something called a minimal compact.

Perhaps those who are seeking to create a “Second Superpower” could learn something from the thriving community created around the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, “Everquest(An ethnographic study of EverQuest by Florence Chee)”:http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/flo/archives/001088.html.

This press release by Greenpeace, “Momentum Builds for New UN Peace Resolution(Momentum Builds for New UN Peace Resolution)”:http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0303/S00377.htm, contains the sentence “We’re part of what the New York Times has called the ‘new second superpower’: world opinion, and it is time our voices were listened to.” Another interesting sentence to me is this one: “32,015 [...]

Andrew Orlowski “notes (Bored and confused by the PC Internet – world turns to phones)”:http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30334.html that the growth of people using the Internet in the United States has “stalled(Internet not a necessity for some)”:http://news.com.com/2100-1032-997140.html. And not for economic reasons, but rather due to lack of interest. He notes that the situation is far different in [...]