Author name: Anna Chen

UK writer and broadcaster Anna Chen challenges stale empire narratives with original insights and a dash of wit. A politically informed artist, poet and pioneering China commentator, she has led successful strategies to raise consciousness and run over dogma with her karma. Cultural breakthroughs include: UK’s First Chinese Punk, First To Take A Show To The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Published Poet At 14, Orwell Prize Shortlisted, TED Speaker, BBC Writer And Presenter, Dissenting Journalist, Critical Thinker And Political Analyst. A lifetime of political analysis & cultural response in published articles, radio, videos, blog and poetry.

Obama placates angry Asians: How politics works

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President-elect Barack Obama’s appointment of pugnacious banker Rahm Emanuel as his Chief-of-Staff couldn’t have been more controversial, what with Rahmbo’s volunteer service in the Israel Defence Forces, his support of Bush’s Iraq war, and advocacy of compulsory “universal sevice” for all young Americans. But then Obama nominated New Mexico governor Bill Richardson for commerce secretary, […]

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Things We Hope Are True: the Blagojevich Emanuel wiretap

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Wiretap on line 312-XXX-XXXXNovember 10th, 200812:42 PM Eastern Time Rush transcript: RAHM EMANUEL: This is Rahm. ROD BLAGOJEVICH: Hey Rahm, yeah it’s Rod. EMANUEL: Uh-huh. What’s going on governor, I’m busy. BLAGO: Well, it’s about that Senate appointment… EMANUEL: We already gave you the list of people we like. BLAGO: Yeah, I been looking the

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Artists copy Damien Hirst in advance: breadhead sues over diamond head

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John LeKay, Spiritus Calidus 1993 Damien Hirst, For The Love Of God 2007. Who knew you could spend £50 million in H. Samuel? News via Popbitch, Adam Macqueen and Private Eye that the Art World’s richest living ideas man, Damien Hirst, is suing a 16 year-old graffiti artist who used an image of Hirst’s diamond

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