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Movie Review – ‘The Road’ – From Cormac McCarthy, Father and Son Bond After Disaster – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in November 24th, 2009 | no comment 
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The father and son, played by Viggo Mortensen and a wonderfully sensitive young actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee, drift through a world ruined by an unspecified cataclysm. A few flashbacks of ease and sunlight conjure the time before, when there was a mother on the scene, glowingly incarnated by Charlize Theron. Then something happened — Nuclear [...]

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The Next War of the World

Posted by Matt in December 23rd, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Middle East, Niall Ferguson, War, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Three factors explain the timing and the location of the extreme violence of the twentieth century: ethnic disintegration, economic volatility, and empires in decline.

What about the future?
Today, one region displays in abundance all of the characteristics of the worst conflict zones of the twentieth century.
“The Middle East”
The obvious conclusion is that a new “war of [...]

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Erosion of American Nuclear Superiority

Posted by Matt in September 22nd, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Military, U.S., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

OVER THE next ten to twenty years, the erosion of American nuclear superiority will have major ramifications for the global balance of power. It will place new constraints on our freedom of action and lead our friends and foes alike to doubt the credibility of all instruments of U.S. power. As a result, decades-old alliance [...]

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Is Putin’s Russia really ‘fascist’? A response to Alexander Motyl

Posted by Matt in March 26th, 2008 | no comment 
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In his articles Is Putin’s Russia fascist? published on the site of The National Interest Online on December 3, 2007 and Surviving Russia’s drift to fascism published in the Kyiv Post, January 17, 2008, Professor Alexander Motyl of Rutgers University seems to argue that Putin’s Russia can be classified as a fascist state.
Many observers of [...]

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