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 in one of the relatively stateless area of the...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Apr 30 2008
Filed under: state, rent-seeking, war, cognition, vengeance, hostility, manipulation, justice, Jared Diamond
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/73720/?comments=view&cID=811026&pID=810862#c811026
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 quotes on war are from Hermann Goering and James...
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TokyoTom
on Mon, Dec 10 2007
Filed under: state, war, goering, demagoguery, Madison, quotes, president
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 way) has some interesting and relevant thoughts in...