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Resist Manipulating Authoritative Messaging

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Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine territories is no better then Ukraine’s track record of protecting civil liberties. – Even before the war erupted, there were ugly examples of authoritarianism in Ukraine’s political governance. Just months after the 2014 Maidan revolution, there were efforts to smother domestic critics, which accelerated as years passed. Ukrainian officials also harassed political dissidents, adopted censorship measures, […]

SMAI Analyst Opinion

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Man has to conquer in order to make himself the ruler of the world. The mythology of our culture rings in our ears and no one pays any attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to our mythology, this is […]

Originalists and the Constitution

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The Supreme Court Judges are saying that they are originalists and the Constitution doesn’t mention abortion. This is what else it doesn’t mention: Presumption of innocence; not in Constitution, Proof beyond reasonable doubt; not in Constitution, Unanimous jury verdict; not in Constitution, Right to court appointed counsel; not in Constitution, Same sex marriage; not in […]