Category: War

  • Analyzing Islamofascism

    Jeff Vail takes a crack: [T]he only value added by the actual articulation of this new “Islamo-Fascism” label is falsity–it is the association in the public perception of attributes and attrocities of Nazi Fascists that are in fact not accurate when attributed to Salafi Jihadists. And it is in that sense that labels such as […]

  • Muslim-Americans Racial Profiling Continues in Nation's Airports

    We arrived in a small blocked-off area, and we looked around and we saw 200 other Arabs, South Asians and Muslims with us. They asked my sister whether she felt that Iraq was better now or under Saddam’s rule, and they were recording everything they asked us. … They didn’t provide us with enough seating. […]

  • American Coup D'etat? Nope. But Erosion…?

    Harper’s got together a quartet of military experts to examine the eternal question: Could it happen here? UTTWAK: What about a situation in which the military was ordered to start a war that it did not believe could be won?… BACEVICH: The military would leak it to the Washington Post, and the war would never […]

  • HOWTO: Build a Cult Through Brainwashing

    The Battle for Your Mind: Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today by Dick Sutphen: Conversion is a “nice” word for brainwashing…and any study of brainwashing has to begin with a study of Christian revivalism in eighteenth century America. Apparently, Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 […]

  • Military Recruiters Coerce Sex Out of Women Recruits

    100 women this year were coerced into sex with their military recruiters. Across all services, one out of 200 frontline recruiters was disciplined for sexual misconduct last year. 722 recruiters accused of rape and sexual misconduct since 1996 in the Army. Most cases dealt with via demotion or letters of reprimand – rather than criminally. […]

  • Banned Music of the Third Reich

    From this collection of propaganda archives from the German WWII era is this list of songs banned by the Third Reich: The Nazis attempted a transformation of German music by driving out not only Jewish performers and conductors, but also any music written by Jews, or music the Nazis thought inconsistent with their worldview.

  • Amy Goodman Puts Beatdown on MSNBC on Chris Matthews's Hardball

    How much do I love Amy Goodman? More every day. Somehow she got on Hardball with Chris Matthews. They were celebrating the 10th birthday of MSNBC and Amy wonders aloud why Phil Donahue wasn’t invited – and then shows the memos that prove his show was cancelled because the network was scared of having an […]

  • Gonzales Asks for Protection from ‘War Crime' Statute

    An obscure law approved by a Republican-controlled Congress a decade ago has made the Bush administration nervous that officials and troops involved in handling detainee matters might be accused of committing war crimes, and prosecuted at some point in U.S. courts. Senior officials have responded by drafting legislation that would grant U.S. personnel involved in […]

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Israel/Palestine for Dummies

    Paul over at Brainshrub does a fantastic, pretty balanced, thumbnail sketch of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Highly recommended for those in the United States of Amnesia. Quote: Or, to boil the whole thing even further – The I/P conflict is bastards fighting bastards who are backed by rich bastards. It’s doesn’t matter who you want to […]

  • Glen Greenwald on Chicken Hawks

    Jeff Jacboy went on a tear about the term ‘chicken hawk’ and how it was a slur. Glen Greenwald responds: Chicken-hawkism is the belief that advocating a war from afar is a sign of personal courage and strength, and that opposing a war from afar is a sign of personal cowardice and weakness. and aiming […]