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Tag: Issues in ethics

  • This Is How It Begins: The Deep State Wants to Terminate the Constitution

    This Is How It Begins: The Deep State Wants to Terminate the Constitution

    That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. —Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale This is how it begins. This is how it always begins, justified in the name of national security. Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of […]

  • Intimidation and Abuses Fuel Fears of Prince Harry Charity Investigation “Whitewash”

    Two Baka men from a community who were evicted to make way for Odzala-Kokoua National Park. Many people in the village have been beaten or abused by park rangers. “We are afraid that if park rangers see us in the forest they will beat us.” © Survival Campaigners have voiced concerns that an investigation into […]

  • A Silent Cry in the Fog of War

    War never changes. The circumstances, participants, causes and locations may vary, but the essence remains unchanged: war is always a tragedy, since it is waged by people against people. And the suffering of the most vulnerable, silent victims of any conflict – children – always remains unnoticed. While activists and volunteers sound the alarm and […]

  • Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)

    Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)

    If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal. — Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006) After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won. Despite the billions spent to create the illusion of choice culminating in the […]

  • Russia threatens EU country with racism lawsuit

    Russia threatens EU country with racism lawsuit

    Closeup of the Latvian flag hanging above the AB dam in Riga – stock photo © Getty Images Russia has threatened to file a lawsuit against Latvia in the UN International Court of Justice for allegedly racially discriminating against its Russian-speaking population, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced on Wednesday. Ethnic Russians make up nearly a […]

  • The EU’s Legal Stance on Goods from Israel’s Illegal Settlements

    Never let it be said that the European Union, whose officials self-advertise as staunch defenders of international law, that some bending can take place.  Take, for instance, the recent revelations in The Intercept about legal advice sent to the EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on July 22 on how to respond to the International […]

  • The Meekness of the Australia’s Anti-Corruption Body

    The warning signs of the Australian National Anti-Corruption Commission’s ineffectiveness were there from the start. The enacting legislation that brought it into existence, for instance, limit public hearings to “exceptional circumstances”, a reminder that the authorities are not exactly happy to let that large expanse of riffraff known as the public know how power functions […]

  • The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

    The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

    The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable… — H.L. Mencken, “Le Contrat Social” in Prejudices: Third Series […]

  • A Fiction of War

    To continue its genocide Israel must first convince the world that it is fighting a war. It targets civilians and claims they are “human shields” who have become collateral damage. It leaves Palestinians with no choices, demanding of them the impossible, and then claims that they are choosing war. Israel simulates war to commit genocide. […]

  • Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches

    Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches

    What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could […]

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