DIGGING DEEPER LXVIII: Afghanistan (I)
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On two successive Monday evenings, Jan. 5 & 12, UFPPC's book discussion group will examine Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Penguin, 2004) and Ahmed Rashid’s Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (Viking, 2008).[1] -- Coll's book won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and is widely regarded as an important work on the recent history of Afghanistan, and Rashid's volume has been called "an authoritative guide to the region’s politics" and "an insightful, at times explosive, indictment of the U.S. government’s hand in the region’s degeneration" -- Digging Deeper meets Mondays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Mandolin Café (3923 S. 12th St., Tacoma)....
DIGGING DEEPER LXVII: The real wealth of nations
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On Mon. evening, Dec. 29, UFPPC's book discussion group will examine Riane Eisler’s The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics.[1] -- Eisler, sometimes classed as an eco-feminist, is the well-known popularizer of Maria Gimbutas's speculations on the overthrow of a peaceful egalitarian matriarchal society early in human pre-history and its replacement by a patriarchal society based on oppression and war. -- In The Real Wealth of Nations, published in November 2008, Eisler argues that "We stand at an evolutionary crossroads in our human adventure on Earth. We can continue with 'business as usual' -- even though both science and our native intelligence tell us that the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination and conquest may take us to an evolutionary end. Or we can use the great gifts we were given by evolution to create a new economic story and reality—a caring economics that supports both human survival and human development and actualization" (The Real Wealth of Nations, pp. 234-35). -- Digging Deeper meets Mondays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Mandolin Café (3923 S. 12th St., Tacoma)....
DIGGING DEEPER LXV: Down the toilet
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On Mon. evening, Dec. 15, UFPPC's book discussion group will examine Rose George’s The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters.[1] -- In The Big Necessity, published in October 2008, the 39-year-old George notes that “There is no neutral word for what humans produce at least once a day, usually unfailingly. There is no defecatory equivalent of the inoffensive, neutral ‘sex’” (p. 11). -- Digging Deeper meets Mondays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Mandolin Café (3923 S. 12th St., Tacoma)....