Trump is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, including but not limited to pursuing wars of aggression (the ultimate war crime) in Syria and elsewhere. He is therefore worthy of impeachment and imprisonment under both US and international law. But, sadly, he won’t be pursued for those crimes.
Tag: america
The Back Story 023 – America’s Dirty Secret (3m)
The Back Story 023 looks at what really happened with Japanese internment during World War II.
Immigration and Social Engineering
Social engineers of all parties and persuasions talk as though an economy is some kind of mechanism to be centrally fine-tuned and overhauled occasionally according to a plan. Even those who style themselves free enterprisers display the central-planning mentality when it comes to immigration.
Tailor Your Ideology Into Relevance
PROPOSITION: Until libertarians tailor their ideology and their actions to accommodate the common people’s nativism, nationalism, ethnic bigotry, and support for U.S. imperialism abroad and police brutality at home, they can never gain enough adherents to become a serious factor in American political life.
Threatening People with Fines and Jail
A question on Quora: “Why are so many American conservatives against the systems that are so effective in countries such as Finland and Denmark?”
In U.S. Universities, a Divorce Is Needed
If the worthwhile parts of the U.S. universities are to continue to thrive, or even to survive as serious endeavors, it would seem that a parting of the ways must come. The STEM fields must separate themselves from the bullshit parts of the universities. The latter can then go their own way to fester in their nonsense until the general public awakens to the need to cease supporting such activities altogether.
US Has One of the Cruelest Injustice Systems in the World
The cynical “tough on crime” political strategy combined with rampant over-criminalization has led to a country where more than one in four people has a criminal record.
US Foreign Military Bases Aren’t “Defense”
The maintenance of nearly 1,000 US military bases on foreign soil isn’t just a nightmare for peaceniks. It’s also an objective threat to US national security. Shutting down those foreign bases and bringing the troops home are essential first steps in creating an actual national defense.
Lessons from Building Praxis – Part 9
You’re one punch away from hoisting the heavyweight title. Problem is, you don’t have enough time to throw that big punch because you’re taking jab after jab after jab before you can gather yourself. That’s when you realize that staying on your feet to go the distance might be more important than that one big blow.
The State is at War — with the Future
What we’re seeing is the latest bit of backlash from a political establishment scared witless by technologies which threaten to make it superfluous.