Review: The Second World–Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Tour of the world in concise but precise terms, March 30, 2008
Review: Daydream Believers–How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
Together with a Few Other Books, All You Need to Know, March 21, 2008 Fred Kaplan The author is kinder to the protagonists than they merit. I give the author high marks for making the case early on in the book that the world did NOT change after 9-11, and that what really happened was …
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2007 Global Knowledge Summit (Malaysia)
Global Knowledge Partnership and the Global Knowledge Summit are a uniquely Malaysian initiative and offer some interesting views that are all the more valuable for their seeming ignorance of the World Information Summit, which we speculate has lost credibility among those who wish to move more efficiently and purposefully. We speculate that Malaysia, which has …
Review: Day of Reckoning–How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart
One of A Handful of “Must Reads” for Christmas December 13, 2007 Patrick Buchanan Amazon ate my earlier review, probably because they did not like all the links I included to make the point that while Patrick Buchanan is dead on target as an individual minds, there is a *huge* convergence of public opinion from …
Review: Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Superbly Crafted Primer on “The Next Step” October 19, 2007 Steve McIntosh My first note is: “the next step.” The two Appendices are, in my view, a better starting place for the book as a whole. The author synthesizes natural sciences, developmental psychology, political thought, philosophy, and spiritual traditions. I have a note later in …
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Review: What We Say Goes
5.0 out of 5 stars Dick Cheney Pulls Noam Chomsky to the Center (Relatively Speaking) October 18, 2007 Noam Chomsky Edit of 15 Jun 09 to correct factual error in original review (nuclear deal with Iran under Gerald Ford, not Ronald Reagan, in 1974). Chomsky is actually starting to win over the balanced middle with …
Review DVD: March Or Die
Military Honor and Cultural Understanding in Face of Political Treachery September 7, 2007 Gene Hackman This is one of the movies I turn to when I am in dispair over the nakedly amoral and utterly treasonous behavior of Dick Cheney. Gene Hackman excels in this movie made very early in his career, as an honorable …
