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From Asian Times Asia Times Online Asian news hub providing the latest news and analysis from Asia
A language for the worldAmartya SenNobel economist Sen sees no “clash of civilizations” in an increasingly polarized world, rather, he searches for common threads that unite seemingly divided cultures and laments that “the rhetoric of a clash of civilizations [...]
Posted in 9500 on November 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Interesting art on emotions. Strozzi
http://www.palazzostrozzi.org/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=274&idSezioneRif=165
Reading Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man. Good background on art and work.The Soul of Man under Socialism by Oscar Wilde - Project Gutenberg
Posted in 9500 on November 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Brezezinski’s views in The Grand Chessboard ends with
“In the course of the next several decades, a functioning structure of global cooperation, based on geopolitical realities, could thus emerge and gradually assume the mantle of the world’s current “regent,” which has for the time being assumed the burden of responsibility for world stability and [...]
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Resurrecting the Star Chamber No Comment (Harper’s Magazine)
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From Comment is free The age of Schlesinger Sid Blumenthal on ..Good background.
Schlesinger lived many lives, in academia, in politics and in cafe society. Of course, he was among the greatest historians of his generation, continuing the tradition of his distinguished father, the originator of the cycles of American politics, and his reputed ancestor, George [...]
Posted in 9500 on November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
On the economy and corporations
The problem with “democracy” as a marker of markets is that we barely have any democracies except media based ones of manufactured candidates and issues. Which is too bad because I think the democracy and markets are similar in that it’s free choices in production and consumption. These do not pertain [...]
Posted in 9500 on November 18, 2007 | No Comments »
China as a capitalist authoritarian nation is worth considering as the alternative model to the US slightly more loose economic arrangements. But real alternatives probaably exist in quieter places, like south America and south Asia. A very interesting aricle is The China Model — from The American, A Magazine of Ideas
China’s soft power offensive and [...]
Posted in 9500 on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
I will be in Berkeley Thursday and fri. Back on Saturday.
From Hendrik Hertzberg Online Only The New Yorker
Sid Ankles Pundit Gig for Hill Flack Pact
For the past five years, no one else has written about the current political dispensation with a brilliance more consistent, and a scorn more magnificent, than Sidney Blumenthal. Taken together, Blumenthal’s [...]
Posted in 9500 on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
I highly recommend reading this paper, precursor to a new book, on the system of the economy.Joseph Firmage - firmage.org
On Iraq and Congress.
From Open Left
Steny Hoyer on Iraq funding:
“We will and we must pay for whatever cost to protect the American people,” said House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. “But tragically, unfortunately, incredibly, [...]
Posted in 9500 on November 13, 2007 | No Comments »
55,000
The Independent - The human population arose from a single migration out of Africa 55,000 years ago, which replaced all other humans in Europe and Asia, a study shows.
Scientists have confirmed the “out-of-Africa” model of human origins with a study that combines genetic evidence with physical data from more than 6,000 [...]
