Language is power. Every civilization that has ever wielded serious authority has understood this at a gut level—which is probably why so many of them, across so many centuries and continents, eventually arrived at the same grim conclusion: some words are simply too dangerous to allow. Not offensive. Not inappropriate. Dangerous. The kind of dangerous […]

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The arrest and charges of war crimes on Ben Roberts Smith is a moment of great shame for Australia. He was a member of Australia’s elite Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) and committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Introduction The Australian state lacks a nation. Like America, Australia is also mainly comprised of European settlers who […]

Both countries maintained or rebuilt substantial state capacity over their strategic economic sectors… the opposite of what structural adjustment programs prescribed for the Global South, which systematically dismantled state capacity under the banner of market reform. Part One of this series examined the structural gap between formal independence and real sovereignty, tracing the condition through […]

The history of the United States of America is full of violence and illegal killings of innocent people on its land and abroad. The illegal shooting at Kent State University is one of the examples. On 4 May 1970, the Ohio National Guard in Kent, Ohio, United States of America, shot and illegally killed 4 […]