Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games. Eric Walberg. Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., 2011. The many stages of imperialism are often brought into debate about whether the current U.S. foreign...
Read MoreThis documentary presents a powerful and evocative discussion at the personal level of the changing and challenging nature of Jewish values in the United States. Outside of the Jewish community, for anyone interested in...
Read MoreOn May 02, 2011, Canadian electors voted in a majority government for the former minority government of Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party. The Conservatives won 157 out of 308 possible seats, although statistically,...
Read MoreAfter Empire: The Birth of a Multipolar World. Dilip Hiro. Nation Books, Perseus, New York, 2010. Modern history and current events are aligned in this excellent text from Dilip Hiro. Beginning with a short, concise back ground...
Read MoreMonsoon – The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, New York, 2010 When I first read Robert Kaplan, it was shortly after 9/11, when a whole library of books became available about...
Read MoreDeadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institute Press, Washington, D.C. 2011. Given the nature of events reported in the regular media, this work is a timely and...
Read MoreIn its Fortieth Anniversary special issue, Foreign Policy magazine (now owned by the Washington Post) presents a series of articles titled “Unconventional Wisdom.” According to the editor’s letter, Foreign...
Read MoreIt is common within early U.S. history to describe the communications from the white settlers to the indigenous population as being done with a “forked tongue,” as described clearly by Wikipedia: The phrase “speaks with a...
Read MoreThe situation in Egypt remains highly unsettled and the eventual outcome is still an unknown, but two things are clear: first that Obama is a failure, in spite of all his record of fine sounding rhetoric; and secondly, the...
Read MoreA World Without Islam. Graham E. Fuller. Little, Brown, and Company, N.Y. 2010. A title for a book is frequently the set of few words that creates a significant first impression and attracts the purchasers’/readers’ eye in to...
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