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Someone feels threatened by the Internet, and the person who threatens them is you
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Harry J. Bentham
N’est-on jamais tyran qu’avec un diadème? Is there no tyrant but the crowned one? Joseph Chénier At the time I am writing this post, I have nearly finished reading Glenn Greenwald’s 2014 book No Place to Hide. I have opted to avoid publishing a single, official review of the book in favor of writing a number of articles…
Why doesn’t the US just carpet-bomb ISIL and get it over with?
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Harry J. Bentham
Parce qu’ils n’aiment personne, ils croient qu’ils aiment Dieu. Because they do not like anyone, they believe they love God. Charles Péguy While I mostly criticize US foreign policy, the elimination of ISIL seems like one goal that all civilized people can share. There are some moments, such as the recently commemorated 70-year-old Second World…
Will the so-called Patriot Act perish on Monday?
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Harry J. Bentham
Tremblez, tyrans, vous êtes immortels. Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. Jacques Delille American lawmakers have a chance to let the so-called Patriot Act perish by doing nothing. Image via Twitter user @benmarlin The legislation justifying mass spying on the entire world would need to be renewed in the US on Monday, 1…
Politricks: is Anonymous immortal, are its methods supernatural?
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Harry J. Bentham
Je vais où va toute chose, Où va la feuille de rose I go where all nature goes, Where goes the leaf of the rose, Antoine-Vincent Arnault The greatest thing to happen to politics in the Twenty-First Century isn’t political at all. Theatricality and the triumph of the symbolic man over man: “Is Anonymous immortal? Are…
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