For thirty years, the U.S. citizen has been conditioned little by little, to accept less. Less protection from unions, less protection from polluters, less protection from bankers and the financial sector, less actual work from the government, less leadership from … Lire / Read
La guerre, la guerre, toujours la guerre…
Voici comment David A. Bell qualifie la guerre dans on ouvrage qui vise à repenser notre vision du concept de guerre totale à travers la Révolution française et le règne de Napoléon : « It is something ordinary, wheter we … Lire / Read
La guerre, la guerre…
« But mankind’s relations with war are full of paradoxes and surprises. »
Tiré de Geoffrey Best, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770-1870, London, Fontana, 1982, p. 106.
Voilà une affirmation qui résume très efficacement l’expérience des guerres … Lire / Read
QUAGMIRE QUESTIONNAIRE: Can We Believe ANYTHING We’re Being Told About Afghanistan?
In an article titled, Hamid Karzai’s Rebellion, Robert Dreyfuss of The Nation reports: “President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, the almost classic definition of a pawn […in] a series of angry, frustrated outbursts, […] has declared that the United States … Lire / Read
Civilization vs. Brutalization: Countdown to Armageddon
Over the past months the world has been watching the Americans, and especially President Barack Obama, to see if democracy and the rule of law will continue to decompose in the tomb or resurrect and shine. So far, it doesn’t … Lire / Read
No Child’s Play: Omar Khadr’s Detention and Its Consequences
Omar Khadr’s detention at Guantanamo Bay raises a number of issues. Whether or not he is guilty of the charges he stands accused of, the circumstances and legality of his detainment shake the very foundations of justice that are allegedly … Lire / Read
Our Hope for Justice: Aristotle, Hobbes, and the War on Terror
The War on Terror presents an interesting if difficult case for applying classic notions of justice to the idea of war. To try and resolve some of these difficulties, it may help to look back to the political philosophy of … Lire / Read