Category: War
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Sinclair Broadcasting Brings On the Orwell
Don’t look now, but your local network is a propaganda machine.
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Pirates and Emperors
What if Schoolhouse Rock examined America’s imperial militarism? You’d get Pirates and Emperors. (Quicktime or Windows Media) Very slickly done and funny to boot!
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U.S. Military as Oil-Protectors
Iraq is hardly the only country where American troops are risking their lives on a daily basis to protect the flow of petroleum. In Colombia, Saudi Arabia, and the Republic of Georgia, U.S. personnel are also spending their days and nights protecting pipelines and refineries, or supervising the local forces assigned to this mission…. [T]he […]
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Howard Dean on the Coming Draft
Won’t it be a strange turn of events when they reverse don’t ask, don’t tell just so they can meet their quotas? Bullets from Howard Dean’s essay. The U.S. Army recently place 300 new recruiters in the field. To meet this year’s quota for enlistees, the Army has sped up the induction of “delayed entry” […]
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Coincidence Theorists Guide to 9/11
There are stunning and astounding coincidences through the entire 9/11 timeline. In my most cynical moments I think that Bush knew – or someone knew – that something big was going to happen and it could be leveraged effectively. Other times I think I’m just nuts to believe that anybody would have that kind of […]
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Misreading Islam?
Commentary on the beheading of Paul Johnson and reaction to radical Islam representing all Islam. I despise Islam. It is the Uncle Waldo, the pedophile, of organized religions. I suspect I’m supposed to feel sorry for the women in chadors, and burkhas, who are assumed to be against this jihad shit, who will be beaten […]
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Road to Abu Ghraib
Human Rights Watch has put together a profile of the entire Abu Ghraib debacle. Definitely on my reading list.
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Vonnegut Goes ‘Cold Turkey'
Leave it to an octogenarian to sum it up wholly and succinctly: Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
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Vonnegut Goes ‘Cold Turkey'
Leave it to an octogenarian to sum it up wholly and succinctly: Here?s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
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Videotape of Al-Queda Beheading American Contractor
Update: If you are looking for discussion regarding the June 2004 murder of Paul Johnson please click here. The circle completes itself for another repetition: The video showed five men wearing headscarves and black ski masks, standing over a bound man in an orange jumpsuit – similar to a prisoner’s uniform – who identified himself […]