Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Myth of The American Political Intelligence

Posted on January 31, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

It would be hard to beat the chutzpah of this piece in Esquire by Tom Junod, link below. I think it has some interesting perspectives too, might even be right? But what it misses is the distinction I have made in … Continue reading →

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The Holocaust and its Other Victims

Posted on January 31, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

No site about conflict can ignore the horrors of the Holocaust. There is a difficult to find German language film on the Wannsee Conference, that planned the annihilation of the Jews, now available on You Tube (thanks to 3 Quarks … Continue reading →

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American Decline? Robert Kagan’s View

Posted on January 31, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I don’t always agree with Robert Kagan, who seems to me to pay insufficient attention to domestic American issues in his analysis of US foreign policy, but I think he is longish piece in ‘The New Republic’ (via 3 Quarks … Continue reading →

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‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’: Conflict Song

Posted on January 31, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

In this case, a great song, accompanied by footage of the march to the slaughter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9jRdPg_ZL8 Over 27,000 Irish men died, serving in the British Army in the First World War out of a total of 886,934 total British deaths. … Continue reading →

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Trade Not War: Peddar’s Way

Posted on January 29, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

This morning I was walking the Peddar’s Way, a 46 mile long, 3000 year old path, across Norfolk, England. It started life in the Bronze Age, and the basic alignment was later used by the Romans for one of their … Continue reading →

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‘Oh What a Lovely War!’ Conflict Movie

Posted on January 29, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

With the current focus on the recent Steven Spielberg movie ‘War Horse‘, I thought it might be appropriate to recall another film about the First World War: Richard Attenborough’s ‘Oh What a Lovely War!‘ Here are some clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wfIhl5mn5s&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUJ8ZnCKmI … Continue reading →

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Inverting the Economic and Status Pyramid

Posted on January 28, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I think I was fortunate to grow up in South Wales, on the edge of the coalfield, where I was taught that the people who risked their lives digging coal were to be admired. I was just in the graveyard … Continue reading →

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US Corporate Profits as Percentage of GDP

Posted on January 28, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

From the excellent Real World Economics site at: http://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/us-corporate-profits-after-tax-as-a-percentage-of-gdp/

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The Military-Political Complex: US Military Spending 1988-2010

Posted on January 27, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

Here are some numbers relevant to today’s posting on Dwight Eisenhower’s warning of the political-military complex:  This is what U.S. military spending looks like over a little more than 2 decades: (Data soure: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.) So much for … Continue reading →

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‘The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains’ by Nicholas Carr

Posted on January 27, 2012 by creativeconflictwisdom

I have been very concerned in recent years about our diminishing attention spans and tried to summarize my worry in my quote: ‘As our problems grow more complex, our attention span diminishes‘. Now Nicholas Carr has written an excellent book … Continue reading →

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