Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. –Herman Melville, Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs [1854]
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August 1, 2023 Hiroshima and Nagasaki Were Shameful War Crimes
I have not yet seen Oppenheimer but from what I gather about the film, it does not dwell on the massive death and suffering that the U.S. government inflicted on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the nuclear bombs dropped on those two cities. What the film has done is revive the popular justification for the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, …
The Iraq War Was a Systematic Atrocity
by James Bovard
Media coverage of the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War mostly portrayed the war as a blunder. There were systematic war …
Jeremy Bentham, Usury Laws, and the CFPB
by Laurence M. Vance
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in a case that challenges the constitutionality of the funding of the federal Consumer Financial …