Event/Expo: May 1-Oct 31 2010, Shanghai World Expo

(from the expo website) With a long civilisation, China favours international exchange and loves world peace. China owes its successful bid for the World Exposition in 2010 to the international community’s support for and confidence in its reform and opening-up. The Exposition will be the first registered World Exposition in a developing country, which gives …

Review (Guest): Government of the Shadows–Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty (Paperback)

Review by Guido G. Preparata (Rome, Italy) 5.0 out of 5 stars Innovative and courageous social science June 8, 2009 Eric Wilson and Tim Lindsey (eds) In this recent volume by Pluto Press, Eric Wilson (Monash University) has assembled an all-stars team of politologists with the objective of changing the face of social analysis. This …

Review: How Terrorism Ends–Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns

Needs Inside the Book for Fifth Star April 3, 2010 Audrey Kurth Cronin If and when the publisher provides the table of contents and a sample chapter (easy to upload using the standard publishing tools offered by Amazon Advantage) or works with Amazon to achieve Inside the Book access, I will consider buying this book. …

Journal: Israel’s Government a Mutant Cancer

If the peace settlement does not include relocation assistance (economic), the settlers who want to relocate will be left ruined–at the same time that the government has ruined them, it plans to once again ruin Lebanon.  Apart from economic equity for the relocatable settlers, a regional water management treaty that is fully transparent and enforceable …