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“Para-politics and the dual state” with criminology prof Eric Wilson

  Tuesday, November 27th, 11 a.m. to noon Central (9-10 Pacific) on NoLiesRadio.org (then archived here a few hours after broadcast). Guest: Eric Wilson, senior lecturer of public international law at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and editor of the brand-new scholarly book The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security Complex, as well as  Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty (Pluto Press, 2009).  Eric Wilson argues that nazi philospher Carl Schmitt (who spawned neocon guru Leo Strauss) got some things right, and some wrong…but that a serious consideration of his ideas can help us understand why…

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