Red Rising Returns!

(Announcement by editor Rick Gunderman)

Dear readers,

It has been three and a half months since Red Rising’s last post. As the sole editor, my lack of solid access to a computer during the summer months (long story short: the college took its rental laptop back) unfortunately allowed me to let slip my duties.

A lot has happened in those three and a half months that I have missed golden opportunities to write about. Russia and Georgia fought a war over two separatist republics. The 2008 US presidential election is bound to produce either the first black president or the first female vice-president. Local elections in the United Kingdom saw a dangerous shift in the consciousness of the British working class. Guantanamo Bay has come under increasing scrutiny as a cesspool of injustice with the case of Omar Khadr. Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, using the time to showcase their rich culture (good!) and the magnificence of their capitalist-state bureaucrat partnership (bad). French President Nicolas Sarkozy has performed a series of foreign policy maneuvers, continuing the longstanding diplomatic influence of the French republic.

At last, I have got my laptop back, and I intend to be in full activity within a few days. I will start off posting a series of very good articles I have read over the summer, then begin mixing my own in with them to get back into form. Once again, I encourage anybody interested in writing anything to submit – unfortunately, any work you do will be unpaid. For what it’s worth, I’m working for free too.

Cheers,

Rick G.

~ by redrising on September 4, 2008.