Dkos lay twin Golden Eggs (Update)
One Golden Egg by diarist SusanG and one by author Paul Starobin for his book “After America”. SusanG writes of Mr. Starobin:
This book is a must read for me and by this time next Sunday, I will be sitting on my porch doing just that. I do not read very fast so even if I have to finish it in a nursing home, at least I will have it to read. (Smile) SusanG made my day!
As always,
BB
Book review: Paul Starobin's "After America"
by SusanG
Excerpt:
For America's imperial class, accustomed to the primacy of Washington's global diplomatic agenda, a multipolar world will no doubt be seen as a retreat. Local powers will become, in effect, the policemen of their own regional neighborhoods; a power less needful of Washington's help is inevitably a power less inclined to take Washington's advice. For neoconservatives in the Henry Luce tradition, this will be an especially painful adaptation, and the suffering will be felt not only by national security policy mavens at the likes of the American Enterprise Institute but also by branches of the Washington-based national media. I am thinking in particular of opinion media, like the Luce-tinged editorial page of the Washington Post, which has spent much of the first decade of the twenty-first century railing against the departure of countries like Russia away from the American-style diplomatic model. At some point the lectures will cease as the role of global pedagogue assumed by America simply loses its force. The "students," as things are going, are already leaving the classroom, just as an earlier generation of learners did in the first half of the twentieth century when the British imperial model became tarnished.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/2/760206/-Book-review:-Paul-Starobins-After-America
(Update)
Restoring Democracy in Honduras
Thursday 30 July 2009
Excerpt:
Hillary Clinton's attempts to resolve the crisis in Honduras have failed. It's time for Latin America to take the lead.
The mediation effort that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton arranged to try to resolve the crisis in Honduras, which began when a military coup removed Honduran President Mel Zelaya more than four weeks ago, has failed. It is now time - some would say overdue - for the Latin American governments to play their proper role.
http://www.truthout.org/080109D
Indeed, in looking at his credentials, it seems he himself might be one of the finest examples of a member of a universal civilization this country can produce at the moment, and in After America, he makes excellent use of his experiences, skills and obvious talent to take a stab at predicting the wildly unpredictable global future.
This book is a must read for me and by this time next Sunday, I will be sitting on my porch doing just that. I do not read very fast so even if I have to finish it in a nursing home, at least I will have it to read. (Smile) SusanG made my day!
As always,
BB
Book review: Paul Starobin's "After America"
by SusanG
Excerpt:
For America's imperial class, accustomed to the primacy of Washington's global diplomatic agenda, a multipolar world will no doubt be seen as a retreat. Local powers will become, in effect, the policemen of their own regional neighborhoods; a power less needful of Washington's help is inevitably a power less inclined to take Washington's advice. For neoconservatives in the Henry Luce tradition, this will be an especially painful adaptation, and the suffering will be felt not only by national security policy mavens at the likes of the American Enterprise Institute but also by branches of the Washington-based national media. I am thinking in particular of opinion media, like the Luce-tinged editorial page of the Washington Post, which has spent much of the first decade of the twenty-first century railing against the departure of countries like Russia away from the American-style diplomatic model. At some point the lectures will cease as the role of global pedagogue assumed by America simply loses its force. The "students," as things are going, are already leaving the classroom, just as an earlier generation of learners did in the first half of the twentieth century when the British imperial model became tarnished.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/2/760206/-Book-review:-Paul-Starobins-After-America
(Update)
Restoring Democracy in Honduras
Thursday 30 July 2009
Excerpt:
Hillary Clinton's attempts to resolve the crisis in Honduras have failed. It's time for Latin America to take the lead.
The mediation effort that US secretary of state Hillary Clinton arranged to try to resolve the crisis in Honduras, which began when a military coup removed Honduran President Mel Zelaya more than four weeks ago, has failed. It is now time - some would say overdue - for the Latin American governments to play their proper role.
http://www.truthout.org/080109D
posted by BB at 2:39 PM
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