An excessive desire for liberty at the expense of everything else is what undermines democracy and leads to the demand for tyranny. —Plato
In a 2022 lecture at Notre Dame, Alasdair MacIntyre argued that the claims and conceptions of universal and inalienable human dignity as reflected in documents such as the 1948 United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in various post-war European constitutions are puzzling, since this dignity requires a duty of respect to everyone just for being human, no matter their behavior or character, so Stalin the mass murderer has...
New York Times Acknowledges Ukrainian Origin of Deadly Strike
2023-09-22
New York Times Acknowledges Ukrainian Origin of Deadly Strike
By Moon of Alabama
LewRockwell
Posted on September 21, 2023
The New York Times is finally acknowledging that the September 6 deadly impact of a missile in the center of Kostiantynivka was caused by a Ukrainian missile:
The Sept. 6 missile strike on Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine was one of the deadliest in the country in months, killing at least 15 civilians and injuring more than 30 others. The weapon’s payload of metal fragments struck a market, piercing windows and walls and wounding some victims beyond...
NATO Has Become an Enemy of Peace and Security Around the World
2023-08-19
NATO Has Become an Enemy of Peace and Security Around the World
By David Stockman
LewRockwell
Posted on August 19, 2023
America’s Brobdingnagian $1.3 trillion national security budget thrives on manufactured threats and falsely demonized foes. And nothing could be more demonstrative of that proposition than the utter villainy which emanated from the NATO summit in Vilnius.
For crying out loud. Since the Munich Security Conference in 2007, the man (Putin) has said over and over, and then over again, that Ukraine’s ascension to NATO is an absolute red line. And anyone with their head screwed on right would have no trouble accepting that declaration by answering one simple question....
The Bizzarro Effect of Universal Insanity + LewRockwel
2023-08-05
The Bizzarro Effect of Universal Insanity
By Gary D. Barnett
LewRockwel
Posted on August 5, 2023
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How many times in our lives has it been said or thought that things could not get worse, weirder, more absurd, more dangerous, more immoral, more brutal, more controlling, more restrictive, more perverted, more murderous, or more insane? Can those thoughts even be considered in this day and age of complete and total lunacy? What has happened to mankind, and can it all be blamed on brainwashing and indoctrination by the ruling class over the rest of society? I firmly believe that the causes for the inconceivable problems we see...
Here is the reality in Ukraine: The war in Ukraine is a complete disaster, and the American neocons that started and prolonged this war for their own selfish purposes (as they start every U.S. war for their own selfish purposes) have laid waste to yet another country and shown themselves (to anyone who is paying attention) to be filled with bloodlust, tyrannical ambitions and soulless hearts.
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