Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Doctor Strangelove Now or Never
Stanley Kubrick’s sensational and hilarious dark satire “Doctor Strangelove” from 1964 with Peter Sellers shaping three protagonists in a nuclear race of “hot war” against the Russians is still relevant with all the war maniacs around today in 2006; people (leaders of countries) who really think and thoroughly believe that they can solve the problems [...]
In: Culture, Humor, Politics
So much for privacy..
Terror is the word to use when governments wants to diminish or lift the burden of freedom rights from the people. The privacy that each and every person is guaranteed by law and human rights is an illusion for fools. Your windows software is bugged so big brother can tap into your computer when ever [...]
The danish lesson of the war against Iraq?
The danish right wing government speaks with two tongues to the world in matters of war! Denmark decided to go to war in the “coalition of the willing” spearheaded by the US and the UK in 2003. History shows they did it for all the wrong reasons. Intelligence was more than wrong, it was staged [...]
Why should 10 stupid men rule over 1 wise man?
Because they know better! Plato was wrong. At the moment I am reading an interesting book that makes me turn pages with an amazing ease and in the same manner do away with my preconceptions of the wise. The argument of the book is that chasing the expert is a mistake. We should stop hunting [...]
In: Business, Politics, Science
Do you know what the death rate around here is?
Answer: One per person. Its a frightening world, I know. Even more so if one considers that the death penalty is on the rise all over. Death is final and no human being deserves an untimely death. The mere possibility for sentencing an innocent man to death should be reason enough to abolish the cruel [...]
Torture as the doctrine of war in Iraq
In reality its only the horrible nature of man that’s revealed in war. Is civilisation not always preceded or followed by barbaric chaos? The English army in Iraq can apparently not escape the accusations of mistreatment and torture of the Iraqi people. The many examples of torture in Iraq raises an important question: Will war, [...]
Just War in Iraq 2003
In November 2003 I received the Master of Law degree from University of Copenhagen. My final dissertation “Just War in Iraq 2003″ was in International Law . The plan was to make “Just War in Iraq 2003″ into a living wiki document, but that never happen for several reasons. Thank you for the overwhelming interests [...]
In: Law, Politics, Science · Tagged with: international law US invasion Iraq 2003
