"A republic, if you can keep it."
"A republic, if you can keep it."
Observation #1: A war is never about what the combatants say it’s about. War is more than people shooting at each other. It is a symptom of an underlying conflict that is usually complex and has political, social, and economic…
“[M]any of our intellectual weapons for peacemaking are hopelessly out of date… the way we make anti-war must reflect the way we make war.” –Alvin & Heidi Toffler (1993) As John Robb observes, we have entered into a time of…
Bob’s post, “Ecosocialism or collapse,” got me thinking about the challenge of global climate change in a new light. In the post, he quotes Richard A. Smith on “three principles for an ecosocialist economy to save us from collapse.” These…
In this month’s Smithsonian Magazine, former Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council Gregory F. Treverton writes about an interesting distinction between approaching a situation as a puzzle or a mystery. A puzzle is something that requires additional information to solve,…
“Civilians suffer horribly from mounting threats to their security, such as increasing numbers of roadside bombs and suicide attacks, and regular aerial bombing raids.” So begins yesterdays press release on the war in Afghanistan from the International Committee of the…