A violation of international law is not an appropriate response to a violation of international law. As an alternative to an illegal…
James Crombie
James teaches philosophy, including business ethics and ethics of globalization, at Nova Scotia\'s only francophone university.
His article "Mumford On How Mining and War Corrupted Our Values: On the Social Origins of Some Unsustainable Technologies and Accounting Practices" can be consulted on line (in Techné: Journal of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, vol. 2 (1997), no. 2.
The links (in French) for his ethics of globalization course can be found at http://users.eastlink.ca/~chicaben/cours/2010j/ethi4553/liens4553/. Some personal pages can be found at www3.ns.sympatico.ca/chicaben1/ and university pages are located at http://personnel.usainteanne.ca/jcrombie/.
James contributes occasionally to Wikipedia in English, French and (relatively rarely) in Spanish. James is also an accredited conference interpreter and a volunteer with Babels - having helped with interpretation services at the First Americas Social Forum in Quito and the Fifth World Social Forum in Porto Alegre.
It was Monday, September 21, 2009, in the evening. I had to be in class the next morning at 8:30 and was…
The United States Alien Tort Statute or Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) may be the answer or part of the answer to…
The damage visible in the fleeting television images we have been allowed to see of post-incursion Palestine is breath-taking. But it was…
They have to learn! Such is the motto of the practitioners of violent corporal punishment. Such also seems to be at least…
We are indeed, as John Pilger says, "diminished as a civilized society" by the horror of the events in Palestine, and by…
The irony is breathtaking. The rhetoric of big-power unilateralism – and military humanism – is being thrown back in the face of…
