Tag: Issues in ethics

  • The Law of Force or the Force of Law

    Are the nations of the world doomed to go on fighting the brutal, horrifying wars that have long characterized human history? We might well wonder about that as we watch, aghast, while Israeli armed forces slaughter thousands of Palestinian civilians, Russian military might relentlessly pounds Ukrainian towns and cities into rubble, and new, bloody wars […]

  • Overthrowing the Constitution: All Sides Are Waging War on Our Freedoms

    Overthrowing the Constitution: All Sides Are Waging War on Our Freedoms

    It is both apt and ironic that the anniversary of 9/11, which paved the way for the government to overthrow the Constitution, occurs the week before the anniversary of the day the U.S. Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787. All sides are still waging war on our constitutional freedoms, and “we the people” remain […]

  • Israeli Torture Chambers Aren’t New; They Are What Provoked the Violence of October 7

    Israeli Torture Chambers Aren’t New; They Are What Provoked the Violence of October 7

    For many years I lived just up the road from Megiddo prison in northern Israel, where new film of Israeli guards torturing Palestinians en masse has been published by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. I drove past Megiddo prison on hundreds of occasions. Over time I came to barely notice the squat grey buildings, surrounded by watch […]

  • What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State

    What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State

    Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. —Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around every corner and […]

  • Israel supporters flout Canadian law with impunity

    As an observer of foreign affairs, I’ve often written about the hypocrisy of Liberal and Conservative governments’ failure to uphold “an international rules-based order” despite claims of its importance. In the case of Israel, the duplicity is even more glaring. Our governments, past and present, repeatedly fail to uphold Canadian law. Activists have long shown […]

  • She Was Brutally Killed Before She Could Write Her Story for the World

    She Was Brutally Killed Before She Could Write Her Story for the World

    Arpita Singh (India), My Lollypop City: Gemini Rising, 2005. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 8 August 2024, a 31-year-old doctor at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata (West Bengal, India) finished her 36-hour shift at the hospital, ate dinner with her colleagues, and went to the […]

  • Beware the Derogators: The Geneva Conventions Turn 75

    On August 12, 1949, the four Geneva Conventions were adopted, laying the basis of a normative standard in international humanitarian law.  As Balthasar Staehelin, personal envoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) president to China, stated at an anniversary event at the Swiss Embassy in Beijing, “In the past 75 years, the […]

  • Technofascism: The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users

    Technofascism: The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users

    Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has finally admitted what we knew all along: Facebook conspired with the government to censor individuals expressing “disapproved” views about the COVID-19 pandemic. Zuckerberg’s confession comes in the wake of a series of court rulings that turn a blind eye to the government’s technofascism. In a 2-1 decision in Children’s […]

  • The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

    The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

    What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) and a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled […]

  • Non-binding Democracy

    Non-binding Democracy

    Roma fleeing the war in Ukraine on April 13, 2022 in front of the Main Railway Station in Prague (PHOTO: Richard Samko) Historically it has turned out that Roma occupy the position of outcast almost in all countries where they live. From 2005 to 2015 twelve countries of Central and Eastern Europe took part in […]

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