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2012/03/15

Berto Jongman: Humanitarian Aid & Forgotten Conflicts

Some important connections drawn between aid, corruption, and positive change; and also important omissions — conflicts out of the news where paying attention could make a difference. Singling Out Forgotten Conflicts The ISN Blog, 15 March 2012 A popular method for identifying which conflicts necessitate more attention from the international community is to estimate the …

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2012/03/122012/03/12

Theophillis Goodyear: Truth is Not a Singularity

Truth Is Not a Singularity One thing I learned from Joan V. Bondurant’s book The Conquest of Violence, is that Gandhi was in search of Truth with a capital T. But I eventually realized that it was SOCIAL Truth he was looking for. And there is no single social truth, because every person’s experience is valid …

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2012/03/072012/03/07

Worth a Look: Dr. James Wilk, Change Agent

Personal Page at Oxford EXTRACT: Armed with this conviction about “where the action is,” I found my philosophical research invariably led me into study and research within each of the scientific fields with which my conceptual inquiries shared a sufficiently long border, including inter alia neuroscience, cybernetics, complexity theory, semiotics, perceptual control theory, communication theory, …

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2012/02/26

Berto Jongman: War and Peace Reporting

New media report confirms violence to be much more important than peace A new report by Media Tenor and the Institute for Economics and Peace shows that violence still outrules peace in the international TV media. Yet, certain aspects of the study are questionable – how to measure peace quantitatively? By Jan Oberg and Ida …

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2012/02/192012/02/19

Marcus Aurelius: Slouching Toward Persistent War

COMMENT: Only a couple of things wrong with the scenario described below: (1) Vickers works for a POTUS, Administration and Congress committed to emasculating the National security operation IOT underwrite the incompetent/unindustrious/etc.; and (2) not always possible to be optimally surgical. Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2012, Pg. 30 Slouching Toward Persistent War Even as our …

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2012/02/042012/02/04

Gary North: Administrative Law (New World Order) versus Democracy (Live Free or Die)

The Crucial Pillar of the New World Order by Gary North LouRockwell.com, February 4, 2012 One of the most alluring temptations that face men is the desire to enter the inner ring. C. S. Lewis wrote a wonderful essay with this title. It should be part of every person’s rite of passage into adulthood. The desire to …

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2012/01/172012/01/17

Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman 4.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Feelings About This Book,January 17, 2012 As one who was brought up with Herbert Simon and”satisficing,” I have mixed feelings about this book. As an intelligence professional I know for a fact that corrupt politicians have zero interest in the facts, only in what will profit them …

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