The establishment of a parallel legal system, only available to corporations, that can overrule national courts in trade matters is a scandal. An American international trade expert, asked the reason for the unaccountable parallel legal system set up under recent trade agreements in countries that have had strong legal systems for centuries replied, “We have …
A reader has sent me this contribution in orderto put into perspective recent events, from Iraq to the massacre in Paris: Setting aside for a moment the activities of the French and British, who created Iraq and Syria in the first place, the West has unleashed almost incalculable levels of violence on countries along the …
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“Dear Robert, My greatest anguish is beholding what the Israelis are doing to themselves. We saw what apartheid did to the white people, making it possible for them to commit horrendous atrocities. In dehumanising others, they were themselves dehumanised in the process. I saw it in the callousness of young Israeli soldiers at checkpoints when …
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A reader made the following observation yesterday: “The Epicurean solution (to the turmoil in the Middle East) would be: DON’T INTERVENE. Epicurus was against involvement in politics, especially geopolitics, and for good reason – life is too short to make yourself miserable solving other people’s problems. The reader was talking about Britain, but I entirely …
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General Nagata is a top US General. He is quoted as saying, “We do not understand ISIS, and until we do, we are not going to defeat it. We have not defeated the idea. We do not even understand the idea.” About 1,000 foreign fighters flock to Iraq and Syria every month. How and why …
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