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How Israel is Rewriting Laws of War

From Israel, in a chilling and important report, Jeff Halper reports on how two Israeli professors are rewriting the Geneva Conventions to give legal cover for total war on civilian populations. “If you do something for long enough,” says Colonel (res.) Daniel Reisner, former head of the IDF’s Legal Department, “the world will accept it.” From Moscow, Boris Kagarlitsky profiles Russia’s economic liberals, the last true believers in pure capitalism. Welcome to the theater of the absurd. Get your new edition today by subscribing online or calling 1-800-840-3683 Contributions to CounterPunch are tax-deductible. Click here to make a donation. If you find our site useful please: Subscribe Now! CounterPunch books and t-shirts make great presents.

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Today's Stories

March 1, 2010

Mike Whitney
The Case Against Bernanke and Greenspan

February 26 - 28, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
Feed Pete Peterson to the Whales

Alison Weir
Media Reporting on Israel: All in the Family

Will Parrish /
Darwin Bond-Graham
DiFi and Blum: a Marriage Marinated in Money

Jason Hribal
How Orky and Kasatka Almost Sank Sea World

Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
The Pentagon: Gargantua's Mouth

Mark Weisbrot
The Debt is Not the Threat

Alan Farago
The Potemkin Village Economy

Suzan Mazur
Peer Review as Censorship: an Interview with Historian David Noble

Martha Rosenberg
Talking with Gail Collins About the Women's Rights Movement

Ray McGovern
A "Good" Terrorist Captured by Iran

Rannie Amiri
Egypt's Nuclear Option

Dave Lindorff
The Accidental Patient

Ramzy Baroud
Challenging History

David Macaray
Union Politics for Grown-Ups

Jared Ritvo
The Life and Death Struggle of the Yanomami

Missy Beattie
The Indefatigable Cindy Sheehan

Brian McKenna
Zinn and the Art of History

Don Santina
Don't Mourn, Go Green

Binoy Kampmark
Deadly Purchases

M.G. Piety
Frozen in Time: Does Figure Skating Have a Future?

Michael Dickinson Art as Defensive Weapon

Charles R. Larson
Learning to Live

Ben Sonnenberg
"24 City:" a Remarkable Chinese Film

David Yearsley
Sex in the Name of Christ

Poets' Basement
Edward Beatty

Website of the Weekend
A Tribute to Howard Zinn

February 25, 2010

Jason Hribal
Orca Resistance at Sea World

Clancy Sigal
No, in Anger: Liberals Have Lost Their Thunder

Tariq Ali
The Assault on Illhem

Jonathan Cook
Ethan Bronner and Conflicts of Interest

Mike Whitney
The War on Toyota: Is It All Politics?

Peter Lee
China's New Iran Strategy

Russell Mokhiber Prosecuting Bush for War Crimes

Deepak Tripathi Charlie Wilson's Legacy

Norman Solomon
War Politics

Phillip Doe
Colorado's Weed War Swindle

Website of the Day
Once There Was a Senator of Conscience ...

February 24, 2010

Ashley Smith
Haiti and the Aid Racket

Mike Whitney
Geithner's Gotta Go

Garerth Porter
The Real Objective of the Marja Offensive

Joe Bageant
Round Midnight: the American Disease

Shamus Cooke
The Plot to Kill Social Security

Al Benchich
GM's Northern Strategy: Go Non-Union

Harvey Wasserman
The Nuclear Lobby's $645 Million Con Job

Jim Goodman
Promises, Promises: the Fairy Tale of GM Crops

Ron Jacobs
The Hollow Man Reaches His Omega Point

Stewart J. Lawrence
Sarah Palin: All Pump, No Caribou

Tom Clifford
Bribes, Corruption and the Pandur APC

Website of the Day
Blackwater and the "South Park" Alias

February 23, 2010

Uri Avnery
The Dubai Hit

Paul Craig Roberts
The Last Flight of Joe Stack

William P. O'Connor
The Story of Pvt. Hargrove

Steven Higgs
Evan Bayh, the Hoosier Drama Queen

Marshall Auerback / L. Randall Wray
War on Goldman Sachs

Jeff Sher
Health Care as Political Theater

Carl Finamore
Inside Organizing and Outside Representation

Dave Lindorff
Rampage in Philly

Benjamin Dangl
Beer Globalization in Latin America

Anthony Papa
Why Gov. Paterson Should be Applauded for Hiring Former Drug Dealer

Bob Sommer
Bringing the War Home

Robert Bryce
The Melting Case for Cap-and-Trade

Website of the Day
Sibel Edmonds Has Named Names: Why Isn't the Media Reporting It?

February 22, 2010

Vincent Navarro
Fascism is Alive and Well in Spain
The Case of Judge Garzon

Michael Neumann
Israel and Its Neighbors
Leveling the Playing Field

Marc Weisbrot
Hillary Clinton's War Whoop

Richard Neville
Mocked When She Flew to Baghdad

P. Sainath
ABC of Media: Advertising, Bollywood and Corporate Power

Christopher Ketcham
The Joe Stack Manifesto

Marc Catone
The Vatican's Top Ten Album List

February 19 - 21, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
From God to Gaia to Obama's Nuclear Apocalypse

Bill Quigley
Living Under Green Plastic: Voices of Haiti's Homeless

Joshua Frank /
Jeffrey St. Clair
The Case of Briana Waters

Joan Roelofs
Bases of Empire

Paul Craig Roberts
Looting Social Security

Peter Lee
Iran's Natural Gas Game

Gareth Porter
Jailed Taliban Leader Still a Pakistani Asset

Saul Landau /
Nelson P. Valdes
The Defense Elephant in America's Living Room

Mark Schuller
Passing the "Riot Test" in Haiti

Rev. William E. Alberts
The Sacrifice of Haiti

Thomas M. Power
A Hard-Headed Look at Biomass

John Ross
Dead Man Walking in California

Nicola Nasser
Violent Days in Iraq

Rannie Amiri
The Shia Crescent Revisited

Ramzy Baroud
Trial Balloons for War

David Macaray
Iraq's Labor Unions

M. Shahid Alam
Accidental Parallels?

George Wuerthner
A New Round of National Monuments? a Guide to Obama's Short List

Missy Beattie
Cheney's Baby: a Monster Named Torture

Adam Turl
The Wal-Mart Counter-Revolution

Dave Lindorff
Grumpy, White Terrorists in Cars and Planes

Alan Cabal
The Austin Kamikaze

Farzana Versey
The Halal Question

M. G. Piety
The Lonely Sport: What's Killing Figure Skating?

Charles R. Larson
The Fog of War: DeLillo's "Point Omega"

Kim Nicolini
"35 Shots of Rum:" An Intimate Look at Ordinary Life

David Yearsley
The Night of the Living Deadheads

Lorenzo Wolff
Music, Lyrics and the Void Between Us

Poets' Basement
Michelle Askin

Website of the Weekend
Dresden: The Revenger's Tragedy

February 18, 2010

Sasan Fayazmanesh
A Dangerous Liaison: the Iranian Greens and the West

Nadia Hijab
Jerusalem's Battle of the Graves

David Rosen
Sinner Men

Jayne Lyn Stahl
A Tale of Two Cities

Ralph Nader
King Obesity

Dean Baker
Dysfunctional Democracy

Christopher Brauchli
The Politics of Forgetfulness

Charlotte Laws
Hard Times in Vegas

Dave Lindorff
The Battle for Marjah: Why the US has Already Lost

Harvey Wasserman
The Atomic Abyss

Bouthaina Shaaban
The Decade of the Victory for Freedom and Justice in Palestine

Katya Rodriguez
Tug of War in El Salvador

Website of the Day
Inside Obama's Energy Budget

February 17, 2010

Michael Hudson
Wall Street Moves in for the Kill

Karl Grossman
Obama Goes Nuclear

Nirmal Ghosh
The Tiger's Call

Dean Baker
The Savvy Mr. Blankfein

Russell Mokhiber
The Corporate Hijacking of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

John V. Walsh
Elie Wiesel's Ignoble Recruits

Martin Lukacs
Canada's Aboriginal Show and Tell

Nouri Gana
Arab Despise Thyself ...

Heather Gray /
K. Rashid Nuri
Grow Your Own: Urban Farming's Challenge to Corporate Agriculture

Daniel Wolff
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: a Familiar Strangeness

Website of the Day
Chernobyl: a Photographic Essay

February 16, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts
A Country of Serfs

Forrest Hylton
Students as Spies: Colombia Mimes the CIA

Carl Ginsburg
Less is Less

Jonathan Cook
Arabs of Jaffa Face Settlers as Neighbors

Robert Alvarez
Nukes Aren't the Answer

Deepak Tripathi
A Great Military Triumph? Questions About the Capture of Mullah Baradar

George Wuerthner
Cows, Condos and All the Rest: the Geography of Agriculture and Sprawl in the West

Shamus Cooke
The Great Bi-Partisan Deception

Robert Bryce
Peak Confusion: Tom Friedman's Twisted Energy Politics

Brian Cloughley
Speaking Badly of Charlie Wilson

Carl Finamore
How to Succeed After Failing

David Rovics
Fighting Shell Oil in Ireland: the Arrest of Pat O'Donnell

Website of the Day
Aid to Israel

February 15, 2010

David Price
Human Terrain Systems Dissenter Resigns, Tells Inside Story of Training's Heart of Darkness

Michael Hudson /
Jeff Sommers
Latvia's Road to Serfdom

Ishmael Reed
My Problem with Hardball

Conn Hallinan
China and India: a Danger in Thin Air

Yvonne Ridley
Operation Moshtarak: a Codeword for Ethnic Cleansing in Afghanistan?

Bill Quigley
A Million Homeless in Haiti

Patrick Cockburn
The Assault on Marjah

Dave Lindorff
Picturing the Dead

David Díaz-Arias
Right Rising in Costa Rica

Stephanie Westbrook
Questioning the "Special Relationship" with Israel

Harvey Wasserman
Our Founders Were Not Fundamentalists

Norman Solomon
Dollars for Death, Pennies for Life

Website of the Day
The World's Oldest Potheads

February 12-14, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
The Goat in the Clearing

Andrew Cockburn
The Economic Velociraptors

Arno J. Mayer
The Treason of the Nobels

Ishmael Reed /
Sapphire
A Dialogue on "Precious"

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh
The Retrogression: New Phase, Not Just Another Recession

Jonathan Cook
Israel's War on Protest

Gareth Porter
The Taliban Isolated Bin Laden

William Blum
That Which Can Not be Spoken

Jeffrey St. Clair
Fear and Firewood

Saul Landau
Government of Lawyers Spit on Law

John Ross
Mexican Church and State Go Nose to Nose Over Who Can Marry Who

Fran Shor
Dumb Power in the Af-Pak War

Marshall Auerback
Greece Signs Its National Suicide Pact

Dave Lindorff
I Cut My Hair, But I'm Not a Terrorist

Ramzy Baroud
The Useless Logic of Round Numbers

Gary Leupp
Skewing the Himalayan Revolution

Joseph Sher
Health Insurance Death Spiral

David Swanson
Yoo's Weird Lies About Obama

Randall Amster
Empire of the Sunset

David Ker Thomson
Against Canada

Bill Piper
Obama's Drug War Budget: Looking a Lot Like Bush's

Missy Beattie
How Blackwater Built Morale

Farzana Versey
Botulism and Babel: Understanding the Rot in Academia

Dan Bacher
How Water Exports are Killing California Jobs and Salmon

Bill Worf
Fires, Logging and Wilderness in Montana

Christopher Brauchli
Special Offer! Free Cremation!!

Dr. Susan Block
Secret Sexual Fantasies: the Erotic Theater of the Mind

Charles R. Larson
Politics, Corruption and Sex in El Salvador

David Yearsley
A Clavichord Battles Santa Monica

Binoy Kampmark
The Vicious Countryside: Haneke's "The White Ribbon"

Poets' Basement
LaMorticella, Moser and Chaet

Website of the Weekend
Privatizing Public Bison

February 11, 2010

Patrick Cockburn
The Battle for Marjah

Mark Schuller
Uncertain Ground: the Haiti Earthquake and Its Aftermath

Stephen Soldz
The Seven Paragraphs on Torture

Harvey Wasserman
Vermont's Radioactive Nightmare

Stephen Fleischman
How the Corporations Broke America

Ron Jacobs
Ending the War in Afghanistan

Helen Redmond
Haiti and Health Care

Steve Zhou
Ideological Detox and the Muslim Community

Fatemeh Keshavarz Ahmadinejad, the Western Press and the Iranian Green Opposition

Gary Goldstein
The High Cost of Another Failed Star Wars Test

Website of the Day
Love Stinks: Matchmaking for Polluters & Lobbyists

February 10, 2010

Jules Boykoff
Showdown in Vancouver

Paul Craig Roberts
The U.S. is Now a Police State

David Macaray
A Dagger in the Heart of Labor

William Blum
Haiti, Aristide and Ideology

Martine Bulard
Live Long .... If You're Rich

M. Shahid Alam
A Eurocentric Problem

Tolu Olorunda
Making a Killing on Student Loans

Jayne Lyn Stahl
How Much is Too Much Information?

Cecilia Lucas
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Serve

Eric Walberg
The Great Game Playoff

Website of the Day
Saving Tropical Rainforests

February 9, 2010

Vijay Prashad
Troubles in the Mountains

Bill Quigley
Haiti by the Numbers

Jonathan Cook
Jerusalem Mayor to Raze 200 Palestinian Homes

Shamus Cooke
The Democrats are Coming After Social Security

Robert Jensen
The New York Times, Israel and Ethan Bronner

Laura Flanders
The Discreet Unveiling of a Covert War

Chris Kromm
Who Dat in the New Orleans Mayor's Office?

Dave Lindorff
Mumia Abu-Jamal's Case Stuck in Limbo

George Wuerthner
The Thinning Trap: Fear, Fire and Logging

Belén Fernandez
Check Out That Cuban!

Michael Donnelly
Green After-Birth?

Susie Day
GOP Sells Soul to Pat Robertson

Website of the Day
Goldstone Facts

February 8, 2010

Pam Martens
Wall Street's Killer Instinct Spells Death Knell for Jobs

Heather Gray
The Cruel Insanity of Obama's Agriculture Export Plan

Paul Craig Roberts
Blood Lust and Bragging Rights

Franklin Spinney
Mark-to-Market Pentagon Style

Ralph Nader
Institutionalizing Howard Zinn

Ellen Brown
The World's Greatest Insurance Heist

Sasha Kramer
Hope Rising from the Ashes of Port au Prince

Richard Morse
Who's in Charge of This Country?

Fred Gardner
LaGuardia and the Truth About Marijuana

Binoy Kampmark
Trouble at The Lancet

Michael Winship
Lobbyists Retreat, But Never Surrender

David Michael Green
Just Give Us Some Truth Now

Charles R. Larson
Socialist Blizzard Hits DC

Website of the Day
Markets! Finance!! Scandal!!!

February 5 - 7, 2010

Alexander Cockburn
The Left: Downhill From Greensboro

Paul Craig Roberts
The Free Market Fetish

Forrest Hylton
The Culture of Cocaine

Joanne Mariner
"If You Were in Secret Prisons...:" The Trial of Aafia Siddiqui

Bill Quigley
Haiti, Still Starving 23 Days Later

Jeffrey St. Clair
Vigilante Justice in the Land of Enchantment

Todd Gordon / Jeffrey R. Webber Consolidating the Coup in Honduras

Joseph Nevins
Bottled Water Syndrome: the Drinking Water Profiteers

Mike Miller
What Do Grassroots Organizers Actually Do When They Organize?

Mark Weisbrot
Why Washington "Cares" About Honduras and Haiti

Alison Weir
The NYT's Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality

David Swanson
Top 10 Problems with America Assassinating Americans

Missy Beattie
Recall Notices

Jonathan Cook
How Israel Stole $2 Billion From Palestinian Workers

Richard Morse
Will Clinton Roll With His Pre-Quake Friends in Haiti?

David Ker Thomson
Sects and the City

Benjamin Dangl
Beer Battles

Cal Winslow
Healthcare Workers Savor a Victory

Jim Goodman
Fear of the Organic

Michael Dickinson
What Not to Wear or Say in Turkey

Bouthaina Shaaban
The Arab Community ... the International Community

Don Monkerud
Justice Thomas in Hiding

Ananya Mukherjee-Reed
The Olympics That Will Not Be Televised

Doug Bevington
The Rebirth of Environmentalism

Stephen Martin
Globalization Burning

Charles R. Larson
The Nigerian 419 Scam

David Yearsley
At Last, the Sackbutt Gets Its Due

Kim Nicolini
"Up in the Air:"
a Landscape of Impossible Options

Poets' Basement
Marlin and Farrelly

Website of the Day
CIA Watched as Missionaries Shot Down in Peru

February 4, 2010

Barbara Rhine
Keep What You Have, But Leave the Rest

Barry Lando
Master of Treachery: Kissinger on Iraq

David Macaray
Black Lung Rising

Shamus Cooke
China's Wage Rates for U.S. Workers

P. Sainath
India's Farm Suicides: a 12-Year Saga

Christopher Brauchli
Sammy the Mouth Alito: Chucking Precedent at the Surpeme Court

Ramzy Baroud
Will Israel Target Gaza or Lebanon First?

Suzan Mazur
The Peer Review Prison

Harry Clark
The Invention of the Jewish People

Andy Worthington
Swiss Take Two Gitmo Uighurs

Website of the Day
Selective Compassion

February 3, 2010

Paul Craig Roberts
The Crisis is Not Over

Kathleen Christison
Zionism Laid Bare

Franklin Spinney
The Pentagon Goes Intellectually AWOL

Dean Baker
No Way Out: Roadblocks on the Way to Recovery

Marc Levy
No Medal Jacket

Kathy Kelly
Banning the Homeless in Colorado Springs

Gareth Porter
Talking with the Taliban: US and Karzai Clash

Joshua Frank
Blackwash: How the Coal Ash Industry Manipulated EPA Reports

Rannie Amiri
Saada War Rages On

Gregory Vickrey
Short-Changing the Health Care Debate ... For Now

Website of the Day
Mt. Reagan?

February 2, 2010

Michael Hudson
The Bernanke Disaster

Boadiba
Boadiba's Earthquake Diary

Chris Floyd
War, Budgets and Blind Ambition

Paul A. Passavant
The Symbolic Politics of the GOP: State of the Union or Civil War?

Mike Whitney
Bair's Damning Testimony

John Ross
Who's Who in Mexico's Narco Wars?

Jonathan Cook
Israel is Criminalizing Dissent

Susan Galleymore
Wasting Good Waste

Dave Lindorff
Talk Now With the Taliban

Tolu Olorunda
Words as Weapons

Ron Jacobs
I See Hawks and Earthworms

Website of the Day
Cop Watch: Guerrilla Video Primer

February 1, 2010

Michael Hudson
Obama's Junk Economics

Stan Goff
The Murderous Mystique of JSOC: How Secret Becomes Special

Patrick Cockburn
The Case Against Tony Blair

Saul Landau
Universal Disorientation: the Modern Media and Haiti

Dr. Carol Paris, MD
Staying When They Tell You to Leave: What I've Learned Doing Civil Disobedience for Single Payer

Marshall Auerback
A Proposal for Genuine Financial Reform

Harvey Wasserman
Will Obama Guarantee a New Nuclear Reactor War?

Johanna Berrigan
Destruction, Hope and Faith in Port au Prince

Peter Gelderloos
More Wood for the Fire

David Michael Green
An Ugly Week for the Human Race (and Other Living Things)

Martha Rosenberg
If You Liked Bovine Growth Hormone, You'll Love Beta Agonists

Kevin Zeese
Health Care: a Better Idea

Alan Farago
Where Nature Saves the World ... From Us

Website of the Day
Demolishing Flint

March 1, 2010

Empire and Oligarchy

Whatever Happened to "We the People"?

By RALPH NADER

The twin swelling heads of Empire and Oligarchy are driving our country into an ever-deepening corporate state, wholly incompatible with democracy and the rule of law.

Once again the New York Times offers its readers the evidence. In its February 25, 2010 issue, two page-one stories confirm this relentless deterioration at the expense of so many innocent people.

The lead story illustrates that the type of massive speculation—casino capitalism, Business Week once called it—in complex derivatives is still going strong and exploiting the weak and powerless who pay the ultimate bill.

Titled “Banks Bet Greece Defaults on Debt They Helped Hide,” the article shocks even readers hardened to tales of greed and abuse of power. Here are the opening paragraphs: “Bets by some of the same banks that helped Greece shroud its mounting debts may actually now be pushing the nation closer to the brink of financial ruin.”

“Echoing the kind of trades that nearly toppled the American Insurance International Group /AIG/, the increasingly popular insurance against the risk of a Greek default is making it harder for Athens to raise the money it needs to pay its bills, according to traders and money managers.”

“These contracts, known as credit-default swaps, effectively let banks and hedge funds wager on the financial equivalent of a four-alarm fire: a default by a company, or in the case of Greece, an entire country. If Greece reneges on its debts, traders who own these swaps stand to profit.”

“It’s like buying fire insurance on your neighbor’s house—you create an incentive to burn down the house,” said Philip Gisdakis, head of credit strategy at UniCredit in Munich.

These credit-default swaps increase the dreaded “systemic risk” that proliferates until it lands on the backs of taxpayers, workers and savers who pay the price. And if Greece goes, Spain or Portugal or Italy may be next and globalization will eventually bring the rapacious effects of mindless speculation to our shores.

Greece got into financial trouble for a variety of reasons, but it was widely reported that Goldman Sachs and other big banks showed them, for generous fees, how to hide the country’s true financial condition. Avarice at work.

Note two points. These derivatives are contracts involving hundreds of billions of dollars and are essentially unregulated. These transactions are also essentially untaxed, unlike Europe’s value added tax on manufacturing, wholesale and retail purchases. The absence of government restraints produces unlimited predation.

As astute investors in the real economy have said, when money for speculation replaces money for investment, the real economy suffers and so do real people. Remember the Wall Street collapse of 2008 and who is paying for the huge Washington bailout.

The other story shows that the Presidency has become a self-driven Empire outside the law and unaccountable to its citizens. The Times reports “how far the C.I.A. has extended its extraordinary secret war beyond the mountainous tribal belt and deep into Pakistan’s sprawling cities.” Working with Pakistan’s counterpart agency, the C.I.A. has had some cover to do what it wants in carrying out “dozens of raids throughout Pakistan over the past year,” according to the Times.

“Secret War” has been a phrase applied numerous times throughout the C.I.A’s history, even though the agency was initially created by Congress right after World War II to gather intelligence, not engage in lethal operations worldwide.

Unrestrained by either Congress or the federal courts, Presidents say they can and do order their subordinates to go anywhere in the world, penetrate into any country, if they alone say it is necessary to seize and destroy for what they believe is the national security. American citizens abroad are not excluded. Above the law and beyond the law spells the kind of lawlessness that the framers of our constitution abhorred in King George and limited in our country’s separation of powers.

Because our founders would not tolerate the President being prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner, they placed the war-declaration and appropriations authorities in the Congress.

Both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama believe they have unbridled discretion to engage in almost any overt or covert acts. That is a definition of Empire that flouts international law and more than one treaty which the United States helped shape and sign.

Equipped with remote and deadly technologies like drones flying over Pakistan and Afghanistan by operators in Nevada, many civilians have been slain, including those in wedding parties and homes. Still, it is taking 15,000 soldiers (U.S. and Afghan) with the most modern armaments to deal with three hundred Taliban fighters in Marja who with many other Afghans, for various motivations, want us out of their country. Former Marine Combat Captain Matthew Hoh described these reasons in his detailed resignation letter last fall.

Mr. Obama’s national security advisor, Ret. General James Jones estimated that there are about 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan with the rest migrating to other countries. And one might add, those whose migrate are increasing their numbers because they cast themselves as fighting to expel the foreign invaders.

So many capable observers have made this point: occupation by our military fuels insurgencies and creates the conditions for more recruits and more mayhem. Even Bush’s military and national security people have made this point.

The American people must realize that their reckless government and corporate contractors are banking lots of revenge among the occupied regions that may come back to haunt. We have much more to lose by flouting international law than the suicidal terrorists reacting to what they believe is the West’s state terrorism against their people and the West’s historical backing of dictatorships which oppress their own population.

American was not designed for Kings and their runaway military pursuits. How tragic that we have now come to this entrenched imperium so loathed by the founding fathers and so forewarned by George Washington’s enduring farewell address.

Where are “We the People”?