Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence preparations that show the threat to be what Michael Walzer calls a “supreme emergency”, and arise in a situation where...
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A Quick and Easy Way to Starve to Death
It only took 20 days. I didn’t have to sleep on the cold, wet ground, live in a tent; relieve my bowels and bladder in the open like everyone around me; watch my children burn to death or die in my arms because all the hospitals were purposely destroyed; drink...
Ethiopia: As Things Fall Apart
In today’s Ethiopia, ruled by a US backed gangster named Abiy Ahmed, things are falling apart. To start with 75% of the country is out of the government’s control as insurgencies rage. “Prime Minister” Abiy is, in reality, only the Mayor of the capital Addis Ababa...
Snake Oil
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Project 2025: Five Months in, Trump’s Shock Doctrine Is Delivering
Project 2025 is hollowing out government — and it’s just getting started As we approach the fifth month of Donald Trump’s second term, you might be asking: “What’s up with Project 2025?” According to GPAHE (Global Project Against Hate and Extremism), “Data compiled...
Jean Piaget vs Lev Vygotsky: Communist Criticisms of Genetic Epistemology
Why Communists Should Respect the Work of Jean Piaget Synthesizing biology and philosophy Without a doubt Jean Piaget is one of the greatest Western psychologists of the 20th century. By training as a biologist, he synthesized biology with his love of philosophy...
Project 2025: Five Months in, Trump’s Shock Doctrine Is Delivering
Project 2025 is hollowing out government — and it’s just getting started As we approach the fifth month of Donald Trump’s second term, you might be asking: “What’s up with Project 2025?” According to GPAHE (Global Project Against Hate and Extremism), “Data compiled...
Jean Piaget vs Lev Vygotsky: Communist Criticisms of Genetic Epistemology
Why Communists Should Respect the Work of Jean Piaget Synthesizing biology and philosophy Without a doubt Jean Piaget is one of the greatest Western psychologists of the 20th century. By training as a biologist, he synthesized biology with his love of philosophy...
Daniel Ortega is No Nayib Bukele
Left Photo: Inmate in Nicaragua receives diploma (19 Digital). Right Photo: Inmates dehumanized in El Salvador (El Salvador Presidency handout/Anadolu/Getty Images) Ortega and Bukele are polar opposites: one invests in dignity and democracy, the other in mass...
Christopher Black: Balancing the Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice
General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, left, was acquitted of all charges in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda’s Appeals Court after a 14-year battle waged by the late Christopher C. Black, right. Christopher C. Black fought for justice in politically agendized...
The Morality of Small Means: Sanctioning Israel’s Ministers
They really ought to be doing more. But in the scheme of things, the sanctioning of Israeli’s frothily fanatical ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich by New Zealand, Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom and Australia is a reminder to the Israeli government...
Punishing Progress: Washington Targets Social Achievements of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
“We look for the poorest patients,” the Cuban doctor in charge of the eye clinic said. “Often we travel to remote rural areas and bring them to the clinic in a bus.” The clinic, located in Ciudad Sandino, Nicaragua, was part of Misión Milagro (Miracle Mission), a...