The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hilton Root 5.0 out of 5.0 Stars Complexity thinking that shifts the paradigms of international relations By J. P. Massing on December 5, 2013 In ‘Dynamics Among Nations’, Professor Hilton Root convincingly challenges the propositions of the liberal international consensus and re-frames the prevailing conceptualisation of development by introducing complexity thinking to the fields of …
After Liberalism – Complexity in the Governance of a Networked Global Society Hilton Root World Financial Review Below, in an excerpt from Dynamics Among Nations: The Evolution of Legitimacy and Development in Modern States, Hilton L. Root argues that the linkages between liberal internationalism and modernization theory fail to provide convincing explanations for variations in …
War For Dummies Sorry for the headline if it got you hoping for a quick 1-step guide on how to bomb a country without breaking a sweat. I didn’t actually mean that I could teach a dummy to wage a war. I meant that only dummies want to wage wars. Need proof? Check out a …
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America’s Homegrown Terror Plagued by poor infrastructure, climate denialism, and a patchwork of unregulated fracking wells and nuclear waste sites, the U.S. is poised to topple itself with self-inflicted wounds. By Emanuel Pastreich and John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus, 7 April 2014 The U.S. security complex is up in arms about cyberhackers and foreign …
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Leftward Shift by Conservative Cleric Leaves Saudis Perplexed Robert F. Worth New York Times, 5 April 2014 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — When this country’s ultraconservative clerics make news, it is often for embarrassing reasons: unleashing fatwas against soap operas, for instance, or declaring Mickey Mouse to be a “soldier of Satan.” Lately, however, one of …
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Todd Pierce has produced a tour de force that is crucially important to your appreciation of the increasing possibility of Cold War II. Related subjects not discussed include (1) the role of domestic politics in shaping the systematic expansion of NATO in violation of our promises to Gorbachev as a quid pro quo for ending …
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America – a failed state? By Johan Galtung Transnational.org, 3 April 2014 Depends, of course, on the criteria. A state has an inside towards its citizens, and an outside toward the state system. Depends on domestic and foreign policy, in other words. That means it can fail in two ways, by not catering to its …
