◄►Bookmark◄❌►▲ ▼Toggle AllToC▲▼Add to LibraryRemove from Library • B In the years since 9/11, the US has built a mosaic of national security powers that undermine its claim to be the "land of the free." According to this useful summary by Jonathan Turley, these include: Assassination of its own citizens; warrantless searches; use of secret evidence and secret courts; the rise of an unaccountable...
Read MoreAuthoritarianism doesn't always come with bells, whistles and goose-steps. More typically, it develops in a series of interlocking steps - a state of emergency ("war on terror") here, a couple of indefinite detentions and Presidential hit orders there, their eventual legal codification - that while on their own seem justifiable and even innocuous, when taken...
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About Anatoly Karlin
I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.
One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.
Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.