DISCLAIMER: While the USA is not the focus of this piece, it is not to suggest that we are ignorant of, or in any way attempting to justify-by-comparison, the history of its founding upon the backs of generationally enslaved Africans and amidst the systemic genocide of the native civilizations its national crimes, like the nuclear …
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Sam Harris on Israel: An Ancient Tribalism in the Modern Day
The once excellent atheist/anti-theist moral philosopher Sam Harris, who had previously written intelligibly regarding threats from Islamist ideologies has, in recent years, lamentably exposed himself as quite tribalistic and hypocritical in his opposition to theocratic nationalism. Imagining himself a proponent of secular, liberal democracy and Universal Rights (and unquestionably believing himself to be just that) …
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The Desert War-Gods: Israel and Palestine
One of the greatest friends of my life was an Israeli Defense Forces veteran who turned to hospice work after her rather disastrous tour. She was an irrepressible, exuberant, Mary-Poppins-like personality who was relentless in her passion to raise the spirit of everyone she met. She was killed by the Islamic State in 2016 doing …
Enchained Empirical Ethicist 