Former U.S. soldier droppin’ some Truth about this bullshit war in Iraq. Do your self and your conscience and your country and your fellow human beings a favor by watching this and then doing something about it.
Tag: ultraviolence
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NORAD 9/11 tapes
Listen to these 9/11 tapes from NORAD’s NEAD base for chills. Read the whole story of how the effort to quell the 9/11 attacks was doomed from the beginning by faulty communications and a military that was sadly outmanned, overwhelmed, and ultimately outgunned. From Vanity Fair. Chilling, terrifying stuff. The candor, and humanity, on these tapes is stone-cold real.
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Flickr stream: photos from arabist
Lookit what hatred can do (photos from arabist of the Israel-Lebanon conflict)
Warning: some extremely graphic images of victims of Israeli war violence in Lebanon.
It’s too bad that the assholes in Hezbollah have to literally ruin the lives of Lebanese civilians by incurring the extreme wrath of Israel (who, let’s face it, pulled the trigger in the terrible images linked to above). I’ve always had a great fondness for the Lebanese. I had a childhood friend who (if i remember right) was Lebanese (he didn’t speak a word of English but we had fun, i hope), and who couldn’t love the country that gave us the late, great Khalil Gibran.
Extreme bad behavior never benefits anyone, whether coming from aggressors or defenders. Violence is violence. If this is how we solve our differences, then the human race truly is doomed to extinction, and godspeed.
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Today in 1989…
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something wicked this way comes
With talk like this going around, don’t let it surprise you when George W. Bush drops a fucking “nucular” warhead on Iran’s collective face.
From the article:
“If the U.S. ventured into any aggression on Iran, Iran will retaliate by damaging U.S. interests worldwide twice as much as the U.S. may inflict on Iran,” [Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei said in a speech to a workers’ assembly, according to the official news agency IRNA.
But what really worries me is that
[t]he recent statements are “a war of words,” said Gary G. Sick, a professor of Middle East policy at Columbia University and longtime monitor of Iranian politics. “Neither side has anything to gain by an attack on the other, but there is a chance of an accident triggering something and that’s what makes the situation so dangerous.”
Just like the bad old Cold War days… only this time, it’s not the U.S.S.R. – it’s Iran, who’s back is got by none other than Russia.
Nice one, Iran. Talking shit to a loose cannon is like playing baseball with a grenade: nobody is going to win, and many spectators are going to be hurt very badly.
It’s incredibly violent and [hilariously] horrifying [mock] video games like this [crazy spoof] (mpg1, 112MB, torrent) that makes kids turn bad[-assed].
(Check out the hilarious Walter Sobchak cameo about 2/3 of the way through!)