If you read Wufnik’s secession piece yesterday, you may have noticed that the inevitable cropped up in the comments: racism. You can’t talk about secessionist impulses anywhere – Scotland, Belgium, Spain, Quebec – without the subject of the US intruding, and that tends to mean the South. As in, the South in which I grew up […]
Archive | October 30, 2012
Drones: whatever became of U.S. respect for international norms prohibiting assassinations?
How effortlessly drones have insinuated themselves into our national narrative. As Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations writes in a post at his blog Politics, Power, and Preventive Action (thanks to the Progressive Realist for directing us to it): After following this program closely for the past half-dozen years, I have stopped being […]
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