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Immunity to Economic Recession: The Killing Business Fighting The Wrong Kind...
So says the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in this newly published report: “The far-reaching effects of the global financial crisis and economic recession appear to have had...
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New Wars Uncovered – The Afghan War Logs
I am not done going through this but it is a must-read: the leaked Afghan War Logs, leaked to the Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel by Wikileaks. Beyond a detailed account of how war is...
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Book Review – Brave New War
John Robb ‘s Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and The End of Globalization (Global Guerrillas Blog) adds a few concepts to the topic of new wars and the changing nature of warfare. At the...
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The LRA is The Worst Armed Group in the World
Truly, it is. See below the fold why… if you have the stomach for it.
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The Visuals Du Jour – War and Peace
The great French magazine Alternatives Internationales (the international version of the equally great Alternatives Economiques) has a whole issue dedicated to globalization. One of the articles...
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While taking a break from my last grading marathon of the term, I watched this episode of Wide Angle on PBS on the failed coup against the government of Equatorial Guinea: Part 1: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4...
View ArticleMichael T. Klare on The New Thirty Years’ War
Here. Why the comparison to the original Thirty Years War? “From 1618 to 1648, Europe was engulfed in a series of intensely brutal conflicts known collectively as the Thirty Years’ War. It was, in...
View ArticleUrban Space… The Final Frontier
I know, I know, but I couldn’t help it. Anyhoo, in her inimitable style, Saskia Sassen updates her ideas regarding global cities with different items. First, the ‘smart city” and urbanizing...
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The Visual Du Jour – Stealth Conflicts
Stealth conflict is, of course, a concept borrowed from Virgil Hawkins, denoting conflicts that are by and large ignored by Western media for a variety of reasons (as opposed to chosen conflicts). As a...
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