If you haven't noticed the new tab in the menu running across the top of this website titled Holstad — Conversations With AIs, consider checking it out. I've had a lot of downtime this year because of injuries, post-op complications and a host of other horrors, and while that hasn't eliminated all of my various obligations, …
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Street Without Joy by Bernard B. FallMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent. Superb! Everything I had heard about it. If you're a student of, or even just interested in, the French debacle in trying to recolonize Indochina, as well as subsequently the failure of the US, particularly in my opinion, by apparently never conducting …
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The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was my second or third time to read this book and it remains as stunning as ever. Between the Young Lords and FALN, as well as many dozens of other groups, most continental Americans would be shocked to know …
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This is the China that states and entities have been fearing for several decades. This nightmare story has been making the rounds amongst global leaders, analysts and China watchers for the past couple of days. Lest anyone think this an aberration, it isn't nor is it intended to be by the CCP. China takes Uganda's …
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The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century by Parag Khanna My rating: 4 of 5 stars This isn't a bad book. In fact, it's pretty good. But I'm torn on what to rate it. On one hand, it could potentially deserve 5 stars for accuracy, a good overview, it being …
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