Book Recommendations: The Present Age by Soren Kierkegaard, The Rebel by Albert Camus, and Neo-Conned Again by John Sharpe.
Some good reads with free PDFs
Soren Kierkegaard
A summary of the short book:
Free version via Archive.org:
Albert Camus
Similar to The Present Age, Camus addresses the death of rebellion and the consequences of existing within a world that would force innocence to justify its virtue in front of a corrupt tribunal:
Free PDF:
John F. Sharpe
Neo-Conned and Neo-Conned Again are encyclopedias of essays, articles, and commentary dissecting the legality of America’s invasion of Iraq and The Church's just-war principle. Neo-Conned covers the justifications of Operation Iraqi Freedom, outlining the role neo-cons and their Evangelical and Israel Lobby allies pushed Bush to overthrow Sadam Hussein following 9/11.
Neo-Conned 2 includes an excellent series of essays from Joseph Margulies. Margulies represented individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay as “enemy combatants” who sought legal relief from indefinite detention. The Department of Defense created an administrative review panel in response to Supreme Court case rulings to give the appearance of substantive due process, with the military panel exclusively labeling detainees as enemy combatants and improperly creating a type of jurisdiction to detain individuals with the intent of operating outside the scope of domestic and international court jurisdiction to bypass legal requirements like the Geneva Convention. The collection is particularly valuable given the escalating situation in the Middle-East and the detailed analysis of the Guantanamo Bay supreme Court cases (Hamdi, Rasul).
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