[W]ar is simply a euphemism for theft-funded mass murder, a blatant crime that we would never dismiss if non-government actors were to engage in it.
Book discussed: We Kill Because We Can
Laurie Calhoun’s article archive
Laurie Calhoun is the author of We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, War and Delusion: A Critical Examination, You Can Leave, and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic’s Critique.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Recent
https://youtu.be/SHHn4_Jj_uI Once again, the American public is being subjected to a nearly unanimous barrage of war propaganda and war hysteria, so that only the most searching and rational can keep their heads. Once again, we find that there has emerged upon the...
https://youtu.be/PAoXVEnUfls … money is one of the greatest and most signifi cant features of the modern market economy, and indeed of civilization itself. Th e more general the money, the greater the scope for division of labor and for the interregional exchange of...
https://youtu.be/p8zPuEhoIXY Many of the social or cultural differences between American blacks and American whites nationwide today were in antebellum times pointed out as differences between white Southerners and white Northerners. These include ways of talking,...
