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Why Did Our Ancestors Approve the Constitution?

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Suppose our American ancestors in 1787 had been told that the proposed Constitution, which they were being asked to approve, was going to bring into existence a federal government that would have the following powers: The power to tax people’s incomes in any amount government officials deemed appropriate. The power to regulate people’s economic activities. The power to incarcerate and fine people for ingesting harmful substances. The power to round people up and incarcerate them indefinitely without trial by jury and due process of law. The power to torture people. The power to assassinate people. The power to invade foreign countries and wage wars of aggression against them. The power to establish military bases in foreign countries. The power to take money from people and give it to others. The power to secretly spy on people and monitor their activities. The power to incarcerate and fine people for spending money in other countries. The power to make paper money the official money of the United States. The power to control and regulate ...

States, United States: America’s James Bond Complex

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Today, American politicians of both major parties — conservatives, “moderates,” and so-called liberals alike — insist that the United States is an “exceptional,” even “indispensable” nation. In practice, this means that for the United States alone the rules are different. Particularly in international affairs, it — the government and its personnel — can do whatever deemed necessary to carry out its objectives, including things that would get any other government or person branded a criminal. This is nothing new. “American exceptionalism” goes back to the founding. When American politicians set their sights on Spain’s North American possessions, they were driven by the same attitude. In their view the new “Empire of Liberty,” as Jefferson called it, was destined to replace the old, worn-out empires of Europe in its hemisphere. They had no doubt that the Old World’s colonial possessions would eventually fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. government, either formally or informally. Acquisition through negotiation was preferred over war by a good ...

The Ghosts of Yalta Still Haunt the World

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Seventy years ago, during the week of February 4-11, 1945, the most momentous conference of the Second World War was held at Yalta in the Crimea between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Their decisions have affected much of the world ever since. The Scars of the Second World War The Second World War left a permanent scar on mankind. The battle lines of war engulfed all of Europe, much of Asia, parts of Africa, and touched the shores of North America. Historians estimate that as many as 50 million people may have died in this devastating firestorm. This war also marked a descent into the worst nightmare of barbarism in human history. The Nazis slaughtered millions whom they classified as “racial vermin.” Those innocent human beings were to be eradicated from the face of the earth in a deluded pursuit of engineering a “master race.” Never had humanity witnessed such a magnitude of madness. By the beginning of 1945 it ...