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Remember the 2000s?
It was a simpler time. For most of the decade, smartphones were non-existent. Twitter did not drive the news. People still bought CDs. Not every movie at the theater was based on a Marvel character. Jnco jeans (the horror!) were in style.
It was also the time when neoconservatism ruled the political landscape. It wasn’t just an ideology limited to Washington, DC; the media also pushed it. (more…)
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The Tillman Story (2010)
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev
Pat Tillman of the 75th Ranger Regiment was killed in action on April 22, 2004 in Afghanistan. In the grand scheme of things, Tillman’s death was not all that remarkable. America was engaged in two wars at the time, and soldiers, especially those in especially dangerous jobs like the Combat Engineers or the Rangers, were being killed every day. (more…)
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Thomas P. M. Barnett
The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century
New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2004
There has never been intellectual output from the America’s political establishment quite as ill-conceived as what we experienced between September 12, 2001, and March 20, 2003; (more…)
Nikolai Getman, Gulag Prisoners
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Editor’s Note:
Dara Halley-James is the pseudonym of an author who has published well-received “mainstream” books under her real name. The following is the first in an extended series of excerpts from the penultimate draft of the forthcoming book The Sixty Million: How Leading Jewish Communists, Zionists and Neocons Brought on a Dozen Holocausts.
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Part 2 of 3
A Defensive Alignment
The Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis arose in reaction to the Second American War on Iraq. (more…)
