“The Man of Commerce” is a detailed map that conflates human anatomy with the American transportation system.
Published in 1889 by the Land & River Improvement Company of Superior, Wisconsin, the map promotes Superior as a transportation hub and shows the routes of 29 railroads across the United States. The outline map of North America is superimposed by a cutaway diagram of the human body. The map’s metaphor makes West Superior “the center of cardiac or heart circulation.” The railways become major arteries. New York is “the umbilicus through which this man of commerce was developed.” The explanatory notes conclude: “It is an interesting fact that in no other portion of the known world can any such analogy be found between the natural and artificial channels of commerce and circulatory and digestive apparatus of man.”
Use of the human body as a cartographic metaphor dates back at least to the 16th century, to the anthropomorphic map of Europe as a queen in Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography (1570). This map may be the earliest application of this metaphor to North America.
(Source: wdl.org)
He was safer there than anywhere.
He was valuable to a lot of people. He was wanted.
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CIA Admits Using The Mainstream Media To Manipulate the USA (1950)
Today, 90% of American Media Is Owned by 6 Companies, all of which are filthy rich. Are you being told the news or propaganda?
“We came, We saw, We destroyed, We forgot” by William Blum
An updated summary of the charming record of US foreign policy. Since the end of the Second World War, the United States of America has …
1. Attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, most of which were democratically-elected.
2. Attempted to suppress a populist or nationalist movement in 20 countries.
3. Grossly interfered in democratic elections in at least 30 countries.
4. Dropped bombs on the people of more than 30 countries.
5. Attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.In total: Since 1945, the United States has carried out one or more of the above actions, on one or more occasions, in the following 69 countries (more than one-third of the countries of the world):
If you’re American and aren’t aware of why your government isn’t popular with the rest of the world here is why!
Looking at the invasion of Panama through the lens of Iraq
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Written by Peter Eisner
for World Focus
2010
State Department cables presented by President Ricardo Martinelli
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Cables del Departamento De Estado presentado por Presidente Ricardo Martinelli
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