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Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story
Lecture and film presentation by Winchester authors Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould.
Their book "Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story" will be published in January 2009.
Introduction by Noam Chomsky
City Lights Publishers
From the Boston Globe, July 30, 2008:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/0...
About their book: read more »
Hot Topics in the Melting Arctic
“The melting Arctic is the proverbial canary in the coal mine of planetary health and a harbinger of how the warming planet will profoundly affect U.S. national security.“ Thanks to global warming, the Arctic icecap is rapidly melting and melting fast. Last summer, the area covered by sea ice shrank by more than one million square miles, reducing the Arctic icecap to only half the size it was 50 years ago. This process—unstoppable by now—will open up access to massive natural resources and create shipping shortcuts that could save billions of dollars a year. read more »
The Limits of American Power
BU Professor Andrew Bacevich explains why the time has come for the United States to get its own house in order rather than vainly trying to fix the world's problems.
From The Boston Globe, July 1, 2008:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/0...
About his new book:
"The Limits to Power: The End of American Exceptionalism"
From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nation's problems. read more »