Monthly Archives: December 2010

The many accolades coming out following the sudden death on Monday of veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke and his death bed conversion in opposing the Iraq war have overshadowed his rather sordid history of supporting dictators, war criminals and military solutions … Continue reading →

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via voices.washingtonpost.com Neo-Conservativism is synonymous with murder on a small and large scale, and always heavily garnished with the indispensable American Exceptionalist political theology.Violence and sowing the seeds of its pernicious moral/political nihilism is the sum of its philosophical reach.

The Nation | El Espectador | Outlook India | Eurozine | London Review of Books | Magyar Narancs | Salon.com | Polityka | The Economist | Lettre International | openDemocracy | La regle du jeu | The New Yorker | … Continue reading →

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gtreality I liked this provocative paper discussing the implications of nonlocality from Nicolas Gisin http://arxiv.org/abs/101… 5 days ago reply via guidetoreality.blogspot.com

Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An essay on the necessity of contingency. Trans. Ray Brassier. London: Continuum, 2008 After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux This book written by a young French philosopher has been taken up with great enthusiasm by a small … Continue reading →

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http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/12/08/the-crisis-of-the-american-intellectual/ If you read this long article By Walter Russell Mead you must read the devastating reply by Frank, listed as reply #8. It is masterful. Frank is on his game, and takes the space that he needs to really … Continue reading →