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Hello, and welcome to the Brave New World of America the Totalitarian (I would use stronger language, but some would call it “too inflammatory”). The corporate coup d’etat of our state institutions is virtually complete: the economy, government, education, and the two main political parties in particular are now completely beholden to Wall Street interests and the private profits of the people in these various offices. There is no revolt against them because liberals burned their once-cherished temples of equality, reason, and truth down to the ground and thus left themselves no foundation on which to build an edifice from which to push back.
The articles, book chapters, articles, and essays on this web site chronicle the downward slide from democracy to authoritarianism, and into totalitarianism. In addition, I have offered within these articles some ideas for the beginnings of a resuscitation of a progressive movement. Being a philosopher, I am of course going to highlight the return to some semblance of objective truth, to reason, logical thought, and ethical principles as being primary issues in our rebuilding of the progressivism of tomorrow. Without such important foundational pillars, we will only continue to see the mealy-mouth rhetoric of the so-called progressive politicians who offer nothing but platitudes and “virtue signaling” while selling the people out at every turn by voting consistently against the interest of their constituents.
I hope you find these commentaries and books helpful to your own thinking and a good focal point for organizing ideas and people in the future. For it is organizing that we must do—and now—if we are survive the new authoritarian state.
Robert P. Abele
Spring, 2020
Books Published
- The book will be published by Palgrave Macmillan and will be distributed worldwide. The book will be published in print and eBook, both available in 2021.
The thesis of this book is that there is an element of reason/rationality in every one of our modes of cognition, from perception to ethical ideas. This aspect of reason is at work as well in our deepest moral and political convictions. This dynamic of reason in cognition is irreducible to language or to simple body-based interaction with the world. The aim of the book is to demonstrate this, and to indicate the implications that this recognition has in our ideas of justice. Its ultimate aim is to advocate that we make our political discussions more rational than they currently are, and that we think more clearly than do our political leaders.
FLASHPOINT IN UKRAINE: How the US Drive for Hegemony
Risks World War III: Preview a chapter on Ukraine here.
In the chapter written for this book, Dr. Abele argues that any U.S. meddling in Ukraine is a violation of both the norms of justice and of international law. While Russia and other parties were also at fault, legally speaking, for the Ukrainian civil war, the focus is on U.S. actions, since the rest of the book is written from that viewpoint.
Encyclopedia of Global Justice: Read an expert from this book here.
Dr. Abele wrote 11 chapters in this book. Among them are essays entitled: “Noam Chomsky;” “Propaganda;” “Oil; “Language and Justice;” “The Hague Convention;” “The Geneva Conventions;” “State Terrorism;” “Torture;” “Global Justice and the Invasion of Iraq;” “Conspiracy Theory;” and “Capital Punishment.”
The Anatomy of a Deception: Preview chapter 5 of this book online here.
This book is a reconstruction of the public dialogue that ended with the United States invading and occupying the sovereign nation of Iraq. The focus is on thinking critically about going to war by examining what the public debate was concerning the invasion and occupation of Iraq. It is argued here that the public case made for invading Iraq showed itself at that time to be a manipulation of evidence for a predetermined conclusion.
Democracy Gone: A Chronicle of the Last Chapters of the Great American Democratic Experiment: Preview the table of contents and preface of this book online here.
Has the American democratic experiment run out of steam? Have we replaced our democracy, through our inattention to it, with politicians lustful for power, with a form of centralized authority so out of touch with the needs of the common people that it is hardly accurately described as a true democracy anymore? It is the thesis of this book that our democracy has largely evaporated, and has left behind only an exoskeleton that once was its original vertebrate of ends and principles. The theme and call of this book is that it is critical to democracy in the United States that citizens once again become active participants in the issues of the day. Nothing less than the reclamation of our democracy is at stake.
A User’s Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act and Beyond: Preview chapter 4 of this book online here.
A User’s Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act and Beyond examines the controversial USA PATRIOT Act, passed by Congress six weeks after the horrific events of September 11, 2001. This new set of American laws allows the federal government broad powers to conduct surveillance on American citizens, in some cases without warrant and without judicial oversight. The book summarizes other programs put into operation to severely curtail the civil liberties of Americans, and other such programs and legislation that attack privacy, probably cause, due process, and free speech.
Read More of Dr. Abele’s Articles Here
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- We Hold These Truths: An Updated Manifesto for the Sick, the Tired, the Poor, and the Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free >>
