Tag: war
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The Enemy of The Extremist Is The Moderate
“When everybody’s an extremist, then you can start really fighting.”
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4,800 Nuclear Missiles On Alert With 5¼" Floppy Disks
John Oliver looks at our rotting ICBM infrastructure.
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Cornel West on The Obama Presidency
“He’s just another neoliberal centrist with a smile and with a nice rhetorical flair.”
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Colonel Henry Blake's Final Exit on M*A*S*H
“You son of a bitch. You’ll probably get an Emmy out of this!”
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The Other Side of Disaster Zone 'Volun-tourism'
“A check to a helpful charitable agency would have been better.”
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The War on Terror Was Ahistorical
“We had the world basically united after 9/11 – the administration should have worked closely with friends and allies to maintain that solidarity.”
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The Japanese Katana and WWII
“Just like the fascist ideology, this sword attempts to imitate and utilise imagined glories from the past.”
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Archduke Ferdinand's Assassination Was a Do-Over
“On June 28th, 1914, Gavrilo Princip’s group “The Black Hand” fucked up the first time when it came time to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. His colleague was to throw a grenade under the carriage as the Archduke and his wife passed over. The grenade delayed and blew up as the next car came […]
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You Have to Choose (Yugoslavia 1992)
“Who are we? My parents were raised as Yugoslavs. My whole life, all I had known was that I was in Yugoslavia and was a Yugoslav. Are we supposed to choose? You HAVE to make a choice.”