"THE US EMBRACES OPEN SOURCE WARFARE?
Independent The dollar's decline: from symbol of hegemony to shunned currency The decline of the dollar, symbol of US global hegemony for the best part of a century, may have become so entrenched that some experts now fear it is irreversible
The dollar may recover, but the world will be different By Hamish McRae
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Afghan farmers say no to opium, yes to pot
by jkeating@ceip.org (Joshua Keating)
Foucault on tape plus full text of Hermeneutic of the Subject
by Jeremy
I see the Foucault Archives have updated their site a little. You can now listen to a tape recording of Foucault delivering the first lecture of Hermeneutic of the Subject (1981-82) at the Collège de France, plus a Word document with the full-text transcription of this lecture. I believe previously only the facsimiles of the lecture [...]Habermas on Richard Rorty: memorial address at Stanford
by Jeremy
Jürgen Habermas has delivered a memorial address at Stanford University for Richard Rorty. The address was given on Friday November 2, 2007 and will appear in a special issue of New Literary History on Rorty. The first part is here. The address was entitled “. . . And to define America, her athletic democracy.” The Philosopher and [...]
A third new paper: Foucault’s Analytics of War
by Jeremy
Another new paper is available in an interesting-looking new journal: “Michel Foucault’s Analytics of War: The Social, the International, and the Racial” by Vivienne Jabri, King’s College London Abstract The absence of the international as a distinct socio-political sphere in Michel Foucault’s work forms a major part of the postcolonial critique of his writings. The absence of the international has [...]
New Paper: Re-evaluating Foucault’s legacy
by Jeremy
New paper: Agency and Change: Re-evaluating Foucault’s Legacy Raymond Caldwell, Birbeck College, University of London, London, UK Michel Foucault’s work marks an important break with conventional ontological dualism, epistemological realism and rationalist and intentional notions of individual action and human agency. In these respects his ideas have had an enormous influence on postmodern [...]The Nobel Prize for Literature: A Victory For Science Fiction
M.G. Lord, author of Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science celebrates the fact that a science fiction author, Doris Lessing, just won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The hip-hop generation in decline Lionel McPherson: The enduring racism of US society is not enough to explain the economic inequality and downward mobility hurting black Americans
WINEP How to Handle Terrorist Suspects: No Easy Answer Efforts to handle terrorism suspects within or outside of the criminal justice system have run up against significant obstacles. The mixed record of trial convictions, and popular and legal disputes over extrajudicial proceedings make clear that there are no easy answers for how to treat suspected terrorists.
Chavez and the King
by Jackson Diehl
For the past week, the press of the Spanish-speaking world has been abuzz about a verbal slapdown of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez by King Juan Carlos of Spain. Incensed by Chavez's ceaseless insults and interruptions during an Ibero-American summit meeting in Chile, the normally temperate Juan Carlos turned to Latin America's self-styled "Bolivarian" revolutionary and blurted: "Why don't you shut up?"
The Discipline Of the Dollar
by David Ignatius
See if you can identify the following country: Its currency is falling sharply in global markets; its speculative real estate bubble has burst; its financial sector is weakened by bad loans and lack of transparency. This economy is teetering on the edge of recession, and, thanks to borrowing so heavily abroad, its economic future is at the mercy of international creditors.
A Test of the Global Balance of Power?
by Nikolas K. Gvosdev
If the UN Security Council fails to agree on a new set of sanctions to pressure Iran on its nuclear program, France and Germany have suggested that the EU as a whole might move to adopt stringent new sanctions that would parallel what the U.S. has adopted.
No Way to Expand an Alliance
by Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Reports from Brussels are suggesting that a number of Western European countries are planning to use the latest crackdown in Georgia as the fig leaf for "delaying" a membership action plan for NATO. Reuters reports that diplomats at NATO headquarters are concluding that the events of the last two weeks "may have given hesitant Western European allies the grounds they need to block a step they fear would exacerbate rising tensions between NATO and Russia."
THE US EMBRACES OPEN SOURCE WARFARE?
by John Robb
The US military is on the slow path to the realization that nation-building -- from reconstruction to other forms of traditional COIN dogma that serve to return legitimacy to the government -- doesn't work. Politics and populations in our new global environment fragment faster than they can be assembled into cohesive entities. What does work to slow the spread of temporary autonomous zones and open source insurgencies are open source militias. While messy (and many times as bad as what they replace), these militias do work:- Colombia. The AUC blunted the spread of the FARC and other revolutionary groups.
- Sao Paulo, Brazil. Neighborhood militias have purged neighborhoods of the PCC (a criminal drug gang).
- Iraq. Anbar awakening and other militias have radically diminished al Qaeda's operational sphere.
Who Is Who in Automobile Industry
by hahanu
Cool scan of a chart showing the global picture of the automobile industry in the world. Crossed lines are either engine usages or some other kind of partnership. Some interesting information you might not know before. This is for you, Mr. Chocho. Click to enlarge. Thanks to Christian for this submit. See also who is who of the media networks.
Jacobo Fernández Serrano’s Illustrations;Some cutie sketches and illustrations can be found at Jacobo Fernández Serrano’s Flickr account. Click on the images to enjoy.
