November 2006

An alternate cover for GLOBALISTAN. Less subtle than the other “night lights’” image, but vivid and eye-catching.

I love this stuff.

Map of the day:

Amazon.com: Globalistan: How the Globalized World Is Dissolving Into Liquid War: Books: Pepe Escobar

Globalistan: How the Globalized World Is Dissolving Into Liquid War

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Fearless Voices | Bella DePaulo: Barack Obama for President? Who’s the Decider? | The Huffington Post

Colin Powell, had he run in 2000, was poised to be the ultimate uniter. He was a Republican embraced by Democrats, and an African-American adored across the lines of color and creed. In a nation never quite at peace with issues of race, the mere presence of an African American atop the Republican ticket could have offered hope for a better and less fractious country. Instead, the 2000 election split the electorate nearly down the middle, and the candidate with the short end of the popular vote took the White House. Four years later, even more Americans were passionate about politics, but as many seemed driven to the polls by scorn for the opposing candidate as by unmitigated devotion to their own.

When I hear scholars and pundits claim that single men lead “warped lives” until they marry and become magically transformed, and when I read that bachelors “eat poorly, carouse too much, drive too fast,” and when I am treated to the thousandth rendition of the morality tale of how a young and foolish George W. Bush was saved from a life of alcoholism and recklessness by the firm admonitions of wife Laura, I remember Colin and Alma Powell. I think about what might have been, had it not been for the restraint of a spouse.”

This is absolutely ridiculous. So it’s Alma Powell’s fault? Because she asserted herself in an eminently sane and humane way?

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Frederick Douglass excoriated President Polk’s administration for “grasping ambition, ...3] USIRAQ EXIT STRATEGY: CIVIL WAR By Pepe Escobar ... East Editor for Foreign Policy in Focus, remarked on the Democratic Party’s 2004 platform: . ...

By Pepe Escobar http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GF10Ak03.html The plan [to break up Iraq] was allegedly conceived by David Philip, a former White House adviser working for the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC).[…] ...

IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE WAR, TAKE THIS QUIZ Axis of Logic, MA - 16 minutes ago ... imperial ambitions even greater.". Pepe Escobar of Asia Times describes what he calls "the logic of extermination.". "This logic of ...