Globistan

Something to check out.  It is nice to remember there are grown ups examining time and tide; you forget that listening to our government officials.  Our military is conversant with the real world, but it doesn't help when the president doesn't talk to them.


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Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving Into Liquid War
enlarge	Author: Pepe Escobar Publisher: Nimble Books LLC Category: Book List Price: $33.94 Buy New: $30.95 as of 9/29/2009 08:57 EDT details You Save: $2.99 (9%)

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Globalistan weaves three parallel and intersecting themes: globalization, energy wars and the Long War. It shows how globalization is not proceeding according to the myth of "everyone profits": instead, it is fragmenting the world into even more explosive inequality, into "stans" - some stans configured as fortresses, some stans at war with others. Energy wars, and the multiple intersections of globalization and war, only increase the polarization. Globalistan argues that the world is being dissolved into Liquid War - a natural consequence of "liquid modernity" , a concept formulated by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. The book is 80% based on reportage - from China to Central Asia and Russia; before, during and after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; in Iran and in the Middle East; in Western Europe, Western Africa and South America. Compounded with news analysis, it advances possible trends based on how geopolitics is developing now. It is also an Atlas - with maps - of the world in conflict.