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At my new website, Attention to the Unseen (which I launched in February, 2018), I look at the world through a wider lens. Along with reports on current affairs, there are articles on our distant past, precarious […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>The poison in Britain’s Labour Party</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2019/07/15/the-poison-in-britains-labour-party/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:02:52 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[anti-Semitism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117212</guid> <description><![CDATA[A few years ago, there was some legitimacy to the claim that some supporters of Israel were cynically engaged in hasbara when they conflated criticism of Israel with antisemitism. In 2009, the Israeli filmmaker, Yoav Shamir, released his documentary, Defamation, in which he exposed the efforts of organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League in the […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>We have become enslaved by our impatience</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/06/29/news-and-the-forgotten-value-of-waiting/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 23:30:41 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category> <category><![CDATA[media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social media]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117180</guid> <description><![CDATA[If someone wanted to create a parody of cable news, it would be hard to satirize the form more effectively than to cast Wolf Blitzer as the lead character in a goofy show called The Situation Room, where all news all the time is breaking news. 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But as […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>The ancient hunt in which the tracker’s skill united reason and imagination</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/03/23/the-ancient-hunt-in-which-the-trackers-skill-united-reason-and-imagination/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:52:06 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117156</guid> <description><![CDATA[“The San people of the Kalahari desert are the last tribe on Earth to use what some believe to be the most ancient hunting technique of all: the persistence hunt; they run down their prey,” says David Attenborough:   “The hunter pays tribute to his quarry’s courage and strength. With ceremonial gestures that ensure that […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Novichok chemical attack near Porton Down fed catnip to conspiracy theorists</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/03/13/novichok-chemical-attack-near-porton-down-fed-catnip-to-conspiracy-theorists/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Attention to the Unseen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[conspiracy theories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117153</guid> <description><![CDATA[Vladimir Putin has long understood that Russia can easily exploit the cynicism that permeates political perceptions across the West. The use of the Soviet chemical weapon, Novichok, in close proximity to the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, hardly seems coincidental. It accomplished two things: 1. By deploying this agent so close […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>The depletion of the human microbiome and how it can be restored</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/03/10/the-depletion-of-the-human-microbiome-and-how-it-can-be-restored/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2018 13:48:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Attention to the Unseen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117147</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tobias Rees and Nils Gilman write: It is a crisis some scientists believe has similar proportions to climate change, but it gets much less coverage: Microbes are disappearing from our bodies. You may have heard that trillions of microbes — bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists — live on every surface of your body as well as […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/03/03/are-we-smart-enough-to-know-how-smart-animals-are/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2018 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117138</guid> <description><![CDATA[Frans de Waal asks: are we smart enough to know how smart animals are? Just as attitudes of superiority within segments of human culture are often expressions of ignorance, humans collectively — especially when subject to the dislocating effects of technological dependence — tend to underestimate the levels of awareness and cognitive skills of creatures […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>The immobilization of life on Earth</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/02/21/the-immobilization-of-life-on-earth/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:50:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Attention to the Unseen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humanity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technology]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117135</guid> <description><![CDATA[One of the defining characteristics of life is movement, be that in the form of locomotion or simply growth. What is inanimate is not alive and yet humans, through the use of technology, are constantly seeking ways to reduce the need to move our own limbs. We have set ourselves on a trajectory that, if […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Quinn Norton and the New York Times’ short-lived courage</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/02/15/quinn-norton-and-the-new-york-times-short-lived-courage/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:27:00 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category> <category><![CDATA[free speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social media]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117133</guid> <description><![CDATA[How fascism is coming to America: It’s happening when people decide the ideal society is one where everyone thinks the same way. And it’s happening when people who know better, kowtow to the dictates of social media instead of doing the right thing. I didn’t know the New York Times hired Quinn Norton until I […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Paleolithic parenting and animated GIFs</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/02/13/paleolithic-parenting-and-animated-gifs/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:50:43 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117130</guid> <description><![CDATA[The creation of the moving image represents a technical advance in the arts comparable with the invention of the steam engine during the industrial revolution. The transition from static to moving imagery was a watershed event in human history, through which people discovered a new way of capturing the visible world — or so it […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>With the very best technology, humanity is digging its own grave</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/02/09/with-the-very-best-technology-humanity-is-digging-its-own-grave/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 21:26:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Attention to the Unseen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[technology]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117128</guid> <description><![CDATA[Technology is generally thought of as extending human capabilities by facilitating everyday actions more easily or allowing us to do things that would otherwise be impossible. From this expansive perspective, technological advance has become synonymous with human progress. Conversely, the less technology populations possess, the more they are viewed as developing or even less evolved. […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Britain First and the first Britons</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/02/08/britain-first-and-the-first-britons/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 20:26:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Anthropology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category> <category><![CDATA[racism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117122</guid> <description><![CDATA[The white supremacists who chant “blood and soil” (borrowing this phrase from the Nazis’ Blut und Boden) think white-skinned people have a special claim to the lands of Europe and North America. This is an arrogant and ignorant belief to hold on this side of the Atlantic where every white person has immigrant ancestry originating […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>What happened to War in Context?</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2018/02/07/what-happened-to-war-in-context/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 20:39:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Attention to the Unseen]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117119</guid> <description><![CDATA[On December 20, I explained my reason for suspending updates to this site by referring mysteriously and ominously to “the dictate of highly unpredictable events.” Regular visitors to War in Context may want to find out what happened and can now do so by reading this post on my new website, Attention to the Unseen.]]></description> </item> <item> <title>No updates for a while</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2017/12/20/no-updates-for-a-while/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Woodward]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:55:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Attention to the Unseen]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117011</guid> <description><![CDATA[I wish this notice could be more precise, but this is a time when under the dictate of highly unpredictable events, I have to set aside my long-standing commitment to update this site. Paul Woodward]]></description> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s national security strategy is a farce</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2017/12/19/trumps-national-security-strategy-is-a-farce/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[News Sources]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:39:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category> <category><![CDATA[national security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Trump administration]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117004</guid> <description><![CDATA[Roger Cohen writes: The Trump Administration has put out its new national security strategy. This is a farce. On any one issue, President Trump and his team have several contradictory positions. That’s what happens when your priority as president is to use foreign policy to throw red meat to your base while other cabinet members […]]]></description> </item> <item> <title>China unveils an ambitious plan to curb climate change emissions</title> <link>http://warincontext.org/2017/12/19/china-unveils-an-ambitious-plan-to-curb-climate-change-emissions/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[News Sources]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:39:01 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fossil fuels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[News]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=117002</guid> <description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports: China is the world’s No. 1 polluter. It burns more coal than the rest of the world combined. It produces more than a quarter of the world’s human-caused global warming gases, nearly as much as North America and Europe put together. On Tuesday, the country set out to claim another […]]]></description> </item> </channel></rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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