Kicking Command and Control Blog June Archive blog.topic  

Leslie H. Gelb is one of those creepy Washington insiders who thinks the Vietnam War was a good thing, is a great fan of  Nixon and Kissinger as and cannot see why anyone should object to the USA exerting its influence in every country on Earth through being world's  number one military power.

Read more: Bad advice for Obama from US imperialist [click]

A systems-thinker's response to Anthony Lerman's question; What can religion offer politics?  Guardian 90626

Read more: Its the system, stupid, [click]

The precision and force of Simon's last column shows just how important he should have been to any newspaper that purported to be concerned to give its readers journalism of the highest quality.  Clearly, the Observer can no longer make such a claim with any semblance of credibility. This is a shameful day for the management of a once-great newspaper.

Read more: Simon Caulkin's Last Column [click]

Simon Caulkin is THE only British journalist working for a major newspaper (The Observer), who has made it his business to challenge Command and Control thinking.

Read more: Simon Caulkin vs Observers mis Management [click]

Europe News recently published a translation of an article they entitled "DEMOCRACY AND THE INTERPLAY WITH RELIGION', by the Danish philosopher, Kai Sørlander. The original had first appeared in Danish in Berlingske magazine. Sørlander argues that the fundamental beliefs of Islam are incompatible with the models of secular democracy that have evolved over the past four centuries in nominally or formerly 'Christian' societies.

Read more: Understanding Islam, Rejecting Multi-culturalism [click]

On Monday, an article in the Guardian illustrated perfectly the wisdom of Paulo Freires's description of leadership behaviours that de-humanised their followers and their causes. The subject of the article by Narasimhan Ram, the editor of The Hindu, was Velupillai Prabhakaran, the man who led a separatist movement for the Tamil people of Sri Lanka. Ram describes him as a former idealist who became the Tamils' Pol Pot, 'a paranoid tyrant who led his people to disaster'.

Read more: Paulo Freire's advice to revolutionary leaders [click]