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Historical morality and obstacles to carbon regulation

By admin | Published: 23 December 2009
I think Americans are so exasperated by healthcare reform as to ignore or be unaffected by the recent happenings in Copenhagen. To recapitulate, world leaders gathered there to try and hammer out some kind of consensus about how to deal with global warming. Barack Obama definitely came out the loser, with no deal and a [...]
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By anewnadir | Published: 25 August 2009
Mick Hume has this to say about the Lockerbie release: In the past two decades, however, US power has seriously waned and Britain’s has all but disappeared. The loss of American influence in the Middle East has been brought to a head by the Iraq debacle and the rise of Iran. The UK is now a [...]
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Zizek’s Critique of Schelling’s Critique of Hegel’s Critique…

By anewnadir | Published: 10 August 2009
I’ve been captivated recently by the philosophy of Slavoj Zizek. I think this is because he’s less rigorous than the old Germans and doesn’t seem to have the existential hangups of other European philosophers I’ve spent time reading (I’m thinking of you, Sartre and Heidegger). I can’t profess to having read anything more than a [...]
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