Journal: The Arrogance of Ignorance in Afghanista (inter alia)

A Roadmap to Folly in Afghanistan The Arrogance of Ignorance By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/spinney05172010.html Nisos Kos, Greece A report by Jonathan Landay and Dion Nissenbaum for McClatchy Newspapers provides important insights into our rapidly diminishing prospects for success in Afghanistan, some direct, others inferential: First, the direct: the Qandahar operation that General McChrystal …

Review: Of Centuars and Doves–Guatemala’s Peace Process

Absolutely a Core Work for the Region and the UN Role in Enabling Peace–Future Oriented as Well April 3, 2010 Susanne Jonas I am stunned not to find numerous reviews of this excellent work, a fleshing out of the author’s highly-regarded (within the United Nations and global peace-process circles) “The Mined Road to Peace in …

Journal: Multi-Lingual Social Networking, Arabic First

 Site Hopes Automatic Arabic-English Translation Translates into Peace A new site hopes the seemingly simple idea of eliminating the language barrier, letting you write in English and be read in Arabic — and vice versa — will cultivate citizen diplomacy between the Middle East and the West. It aims to reduce tensions at the …

Books: Collective Intelligence Translated

Our colleagues in Brazil and Chile are in the process of securing both the local translations for the entire book (harnessing collective intellingence and hundreds of collaborators via a web-based “page at a time” endeavor) and also securing appropriate Foreword and Professional Preface sponsors.

Search: “translators without borders” scam telelanguage fraud

This pair of searches is of concern. To the best of our knowledge, both Translators without Borders and Telelanguage.com are reputable organizations and have nothing to do with fraud or scams.  We happen to think very highly of Telelanguage.com, which among many other innovations made its software “open source” for potential future expansion.  Both of …