Monthly Archives: August 2024

The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man It is almost impossible even now to describe what actually happened in Europe on August 4, 1914. The days before and the days after the first World … Continue reading →

And yet who was to control the controllers? The Bolshevik leaders assumed that things would be fine so long as public institutions, especially the control organs, drew their personnel mainly from Bolsheviks and pro-Bolshevik workers. But how were the leaders … Continue reading →

Seymour Hersh: At 6 am or so, Calley told me that his much admired company captain, a guy named Ernest Medina, who was known to his troops, I would later learn, as “Mad Dog Medina,” was also at Fort Benning … Continue reading →