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Richard Holbrooke never walked away from a global hot spot which defied easy solution — he thrived on the hard, gritty diplomatic challenges that, to put it bluntly, either led to war or peace. Continue reading →

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 to complex political problems. Continue reading →

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.

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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