A Recommended Book or Two & a Blog

[Mr_Perceptive]

I jsut read this book. I heartily recommend it.

"With his trademark clarity and force, Peters argues that we have left behind the Age of Ideologies to enter a violent period in which ethnicity and religion--blood and faith--will continue to be the source of ferocious rebellions, genocide, and global terrorism."

see http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/081170274X/jerrydoyle-20/ref=nosim

And, another one:

The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent (Hardcover)
by Walter Laqueur (Author)

"Viewing Europe's future, he discusses current trends in three areas: the immigration of Muslims, financing of the welfare state, and the European Union. They dominate European political life today, and as Laqueur addresses how these foci of popular and elite attention manifest themselves country by country, the author drives his treatment toward the conclusion that reform is nigh impossible yet unavoidable. Muslim immigrants, he argues, have not been assimilated, don't wish to be, and are profoundly alienated from their host societies. Europe's munificent social-welfare systems don't add up, as Laqueur illustrates with an array of demographic statistics pointing downward and economic numbers pointing sideways. As for the EU, its centralizing aspirations have halted with recent rejections of a constitution and its inability to create a credible military force. "

see http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312368704/ref=reg_hu-wl_mrai-recs/002-1097588-7222452


And another blog for after you post here at 3DHS:

http://noisyroom.net/blog/