..as this article ingeniously argues, the Westphalian system never existed in the first place. It was mostly American theorists making up “the Westphalian system” because the idea of international law made Americans feel better. The real world was always about bandits, terrorists, anarchists, mercenaries, and naked exercises of cynical power, and if we could get our heads around that, we wouldn’t have to sweat a New Dark Age because we wouldn’t be able to tell it from common reality.
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American Civil Liberties Union
On April 16, 2009, the Department of Justice released four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture:
A 18-page memo, dated August 1, 2002, from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA. [PDF]
Delectable covered-up morsels of “Freedom”. Go ahead Texas, secede.
misterpeace:suyhnc:nazi 9-11 (via JJ Tawd)
Think comparing Nazism and the biggest event of Bush’s Presidency is a bit of a stretch? A little too harsh or just pointless conspiracy? Shouldn’t we just move on?
Check out investigative reporter John Buchanan’s exhaustive collection of declassified National Archive documentation on the Bush family’s lucrative financial relationship with the Nazi Government before, during and after WWII.
That’s the real deal, kids.
Follow the money (you think loyalty is nation-bound?). Do your homework.
