Will Any ‘Last Rights’ Epigram Go to the Moon? by James Bovard Epigrams are excellent propellants for seditious ideas. How far can one line go? Thirty years ago, I casually appended a sentence to the end of a paragraph in the final chapter of my book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty. I was […]
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Reprinted from TomDispatch: Make no mistake, artificial Intelligence (AI) has already gone into battle in a big-time way. The Israeli military is using it in Gaza on a scale previously unknown in wartime. They’ve reportedly been employing an AI target-selection platform called (all too unnervingly) “the Gospel” to choose many of their bombing sites. According … Continue reading "‘Emergent’ AI Behavior and Human Destiny"
In a recent CNN interview, the normally very confident US Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland sounded a little desperate. She was trying to make the case for Congress to pass another $61 billion dollars for the neocons’ proxy war project in Ukraine and she was throwing out the old slogans that the neocons use … Continue reading "After Two Years, Neocons Desperate for More War in Ukraine"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts French writers on war and peace Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Charred flesh of children viewed with indifference Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: War has tricked us ==== Antoine de Saint-ExupéryCitadelle (The Wisdom of the Sands)Translated by Stuart Gilbert After aligning on the virgin sand the dark triangle of my … … Continue reading →
Highway Robbery Continues to Be the Law of the Land by James Bovard Seizure fever is toxifying law enforcement across the nation. For more than thirty years, federal, state, and local government agencies have plundered citizens on practically any harebrained accusation or pretext. You could be at risk of being pilfered by officialdom anytime you […]
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Tucker Carlson began his interview of President Vladimir Putin with the words, “On February 24, 2022, you addressed your country in your nationwide address when the conflict in Ukraine started….” Clearly the war in Ukraine was the motivation and central topic for the interview. But precisely what Mr. Putin had to say about the Ukraine … Continue reading "Putin Explains Why Russia Doesn’t Pose a Threat to Europe"
Two years since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine – and fully 10 years since the war actually began – the US political-media establishment seems as far away from learning any lessons from the failure of its post-Soviet Russia policy as it has ever been. The Biden administration’s policy toward Russia is simply the logical extension of that … Continue reading "Post-Soviet Failures, Present-Day Realities"
For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us – the onlooking and supportive patriots – war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a., public relations, served up for public consumption. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be. The reality of war should never directly confront the … Continue reading "The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality"
THE MESSAGE: Is this the only way forward for mankind? Continue reading →
