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Jared Diamond: Those in stateless societies "enjoy" lives that are murderous and short by TokyoTom

Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance...

Harold Bloom: "The Fall of America" by TokyoTom

There's a short but good interview here of Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic (update: NOT to be confused with the long late Allan Bloom, author of Closing of the American Mind; my bad!): http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture...
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Goering and Madison on War by TokyoTom

Having just stumbled across places where Lew Rockwell and others have done me the honor of posting three of my favorite quotes on war, I'd like to repeat those quotes here in the hope of increasing the likelihood that others might see them. My favorite...

War-profiteering and "Parasitic Imperialism" by TokyoTom

I posted the following in response to a piece by Glenn Greenwald: War-profiteering is simply more Treasury-raiding by elites - at our cost and our children's. An economics professor at Drake (Ismael Hossein-zadeh, an ethnic Kurd from Iran, by the...
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