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The Peace of Westphalia as a Lesson in Solving Religious Wars Past Present or Future

Originally published on The Canadian Patriot Review In 1999, a seemingly innocuous speech occurred in Chicago that unveiled a new paradigm in world affairs that was dubbed “the Blair Doctrine”. In this speech, British Prime Minister Tony Blair asserted that the realities of the new age of terrorism had rendered the respect for sovereign nation states […]

A Message to Donald Rumsfeld’s Ghost About My Known Knowns

Edward Curtin On February 12, 2002 at a Pentagon news conference, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked by Jim Miklaszewski, the NBC Pentagon correspondent, if he had any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was supplying them to terrorists. Rumsfeld delivered a famous non-answer answer and said: Reports that say that something hasn’t …

Safe, Smart, Special

Sinéad Murphy Safe, Smart, Special – the three pillars of our doublespeak. ‘Safe’ endangers your life; ‘Smart’ degrades your faculties; ‘Special’ makes you normal. * ‘Safe’ would seem to mean the avoidance of harm. What it means now is the avoidance of possibility. To be safe is to be removed from the world so that …