Murdoch’s Private Spies

MURDOCH’S PIRATES by Neil Chenoweth Allen & Unwin, 402pp. This book reads like a spy novel, but the combatants work for private corporations, not states. There are no innocent parties, only winners and losers, in a world where law is

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Things a post-Singularity spime should know..

64 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW NOW FOR THEN How to Face the Digital Future Without Fear by Ben Hammersley Hodder & Stoughton,434pp. Reviewed: 4 August 2012 I suppose the future has always been alarming for those who thought much

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Eyewitnesses to Afghanistan’s Infernal Politics

CABLES FROM KABUL The Inside Story of the West’s Afghanistan Campaign. By Sherard Cowper-Coles. Harper Press.312pp. INFERNAL TRIANGLE Conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and The Levant – Eyewitness reports from the September 11 decade. By Paul McGeough. Allen and Unwin. 338pp.

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No More the Innocent Observer of War

EVERY MAN IN THIS VILLAGE IS A LIAR An Education in War by Megan Stack Scribe, 255pp. Reviewed: 11 September, 2010 A good foreign correspondent grasps the perspective of the foreign situation without losing the perspective of home. Some good

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