24 August 07 - 22:47
A critique of Libertarianismsth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
21 August 07 - 11:28
A modern Libertarian paradise: another article about beautiful Somalia!sth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
13 August 07 - 08:39
Over Stated: Why the "laboratories of democracy" can't achieve universal health caresth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
12 August 07 - 08:48
George Orwell describes the right-wing blogospheresth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
04 August 07 - 06:04
"Let’s take the Iraq war. There’s libraries of material arguing about the war, debating it, asking ‘What should we do?’, this and that, and the other thing. Now, try to find a sentence somewhere that says that ‘carrying out a war of aggression is the supreme international crime, which differs from other war crimes in that it encompasses all the evil that follows’ (paraphrasing from Nuremberg). Try to find that somewhere. I mean, you can find it. I’ve written about it, and you can find a couple other dozen people who have written about it in the world. But, is it part of the intellectual culture? Can you find it in a newspaper, or in a journal; in Congress; any public discourse; anything that’s part of the general exchange of knowledge and ideas? I mean, do students study it in school? Do they have courses where they teach students that ‘to carry out a war of aggression is the supreme international crime which encompasses all the evil that follows’?
So, for example, if sectarian warfare is a horrible atrocity, as it is, who’s responsible? By the principles of Nuremberg, Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rice -- they’re responsible for sectarian warfare because they carried out the supreme international crime which encompasses all the evil that follows. Try and find somebody who points that out. You can’t. Because, our dominant intellectual culture accepts as legitimate our crushing anybody we like."
On Responsibility, War Guilt and Intellectuals. Chilling.
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03 August 07 - 05:45
In Richistan: Fantastic Wealth for a Few; Steady Decline for Many: The Return of the Robber Baronssth - default - / No trackbacks - § ¶
02 August 07 - 16:44Can you survive in space without a spacesuit?
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