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Tag: Issues in ethics

  • Engineering a Crisis: How Political Theater Helps the Deep State Stay in Power

    Engineering a Crisis: How Political Theater Helps the Deep State Stay in Power

    A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent president withdrawing his re-election bid at the 11th hour. A politicized judiciary that fails to hold the powers-that-be accountable to the rule of law. A world at war. A nation in turmoil. This is what controlled chaos looks like. This year’s election-year referendum on which […]

  • Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized

    Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized

    The U.S. government is working to re-shape the country in the image of a totalitarian state. This has remained true over the past 50-plus years no matter which political party held office. This will remain true no matter who wins the 2024 presidential election. In the midst of the partisan furor over Project 2025, a […]

  • It was the Media, Led by the Guardian, that Kept Julian Assange behind Bars

    It was the Media, Led by the Guardian, that Kept Julian Assange behind Bars

    It is only right that we all take a moment to celebrate the victory of Julian Assange’s release from 14 years of detention, in varying forms, to be united, finally, with his wife and children – two boys who have been denied the chance to ever properly know their father. His last five years were […]

  • Trendy Appointments: Australia’s Special Antisemitism Envoy

    Was there any need for this?  Australia’s Albanese government, harried by the conservative opposition for going soft on pro-Palestinian protests and the war in Gaza while allegedly wobbling on supporting Israel, has decided to bring a touch of bureaucracy to the show.  Australia now has its first antisemitism envoy, a title that sits in that […]

  • Does Canada Uphold Binding International Law?

    The Canadian government repeatedly tells the world that Canada upholds an international rules-based order that is the basis of democracy. What the Canadian government says is not true. The evidence that it is not true is indisputable. There is widespread concern that social media is putting out disinformation, that this practice is dangerous and harmful […]

  • The US Supreme Court Outs the Imperial Presidency

    The US Supreme Court has much to answer for.  In the genius of republican government, it operates as overseer and balancer to the executive and legislature.  Of late, the judges have seemingly confused that role. In contrast to its other Anglophone counterparts, the highest tribunal in the US professes an open brand of politics, with […]

  • The Release of Julian Assange: Plea Deals and Dark Legacies

    One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus.  That is, if you believe in final chapters.  Nothing about the fate of Julian Assange seems determinative.  His accusers and inquisitors will draw some delight at the plea deal reached between the WikiLeaks founder’s legal team and the US Department of Justice.  […]

  • Electing the Next Dictator: Ugly Truths You Won’t Hear from Trump or Biden

    Electing the Next Dictator: Ugly Truths You Won’t Hear from Trump or Biden

    No matter what carefully crafted sound bites and political spin get trotted out by Joe Biden and Donald Trump in advance of the 2024 presidential election, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to undermine our freedoms will be addressed in any credible, helpful way by either candidate, despite the dire […]

  • Julian Assange Is Released from Prison: What Does it Mean?

    Julian Assange Is Released from Prison: What Does it Mean?

    Lifesize bronze sculpture featuring (L-R) former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and former US soldier Chelsea Manning convicted of violations of the Espionage Act, on May 1, 2015 at Alexanderplatz square in Berlin. (AFP Photo / Tobias Schwarz) © AFP The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, will at […]

  • Victory for the Disposables: The Sentencing of the Hindujas

    In his seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concepts.  In its insidious, older form, one focused on the concept of natal alienation, slaves were chattels and assets, outrightly owned.  Each slave system was distinct and protean, if marked by certain universal features. The universal feature of ownership, at least […]

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