Showing posts with label Jeremy Kuzmarov. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

From Liberal Democracy to Global Totalitarianism

From Liberal Democracy to Global Totalitarianism

By Thaddeus Kozinski, PhD

LewRockwell

Posted on September 27, 2023


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 as much dignity and deserves as much respect as Mother Teresa. Aquinas’ view of dignitas as interpreted by Charles De Koninick is a challenge to this view, for it assigns human dignity, not to the mere fact of being human, but to the end to which we are called, which is supernatural, union with God, which might not be attained due to one’s choices on earth against those common goods which enable our attainment of the supernatural end, and so human dignitas could be lost. According to this view, the 20th-century concept of human dignity is much too individualistic, and because it is not based in justice and the common good, can only provide negative prescriptions against the undignified treatment of humans. It is unable to provide positive prescriptions that enable persons to obtain the common goods and the virtues they need to attain their supernatural end. For MacIntyre, we need to speak of human dignity in terms of justice, what we owe to each other for the sake of enabling persons to attain their personal and common goods and final end, which is the knowledge and love of God in this life and the next.

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September 27th, 2023
 



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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Why Are We in Niger?

Why Are We in Niger?

By Ron Paul, MD

LewRockwell

Posted on September 12, 2023



The July military coup in the west African country of Niger has once again brought attention to the fact that the US government runs a global military empire that serves Washington’s special interests, and not the national interest.

Before the coup made news headlines, most Americans – including many serving in Congress – had no idea the US government maintains more than 1,000 troops stationed on several US bases in Niger. But it’s even worse than that. A recent report in The Intercept suggests the Pentagon repeatedly misled Congress about the extent and the cost of the US presence in Niger.

According to The Intercept, “in testimony before the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in March, the chief of US Africa Command described Air Base 201 (in Niger) as ‘minimal’ and ‘low cost.’” In fact the US government has spent a quarter of a billion dollars on the base since construction began in 2016.

So when did Congress declare war so as to legalize US military operations in Niger? They didn’t. But as Kelley Vlahos writes in Responsible Statecraft, US troops have been...

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September 12th, 2023
 

Why Are We in Niger?

Ron Paul, MD

Remembering the 9/11 Truth Movement

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Are You Better Off Today Than You Were Four Years Ago?

Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.

9/11- Imploding the Truth

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America is Headed for a Venezuela Style Economy and Government

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Bergoglio, Sexual Revolutionary

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On Day One, Kennedy Will End the Failed ‘War on Drugs’

Jeremy Kuzmarov

Laws Don’t Exist To Prevent Wrongdoing

Caitlin Johnstone


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