Posted by: lettrist on: September 17, 2009
Josh Simpson and Benjamin Lewis from Fort Lewis Iraq Veterans Against the War on Venezuela television:
Posted by: lettrist on: May 10, 2009
I saw this sticker while visiting some friends at Coffee Strong. GI Voice and IVAW held a small protest on this bridge against “Stop Loss,” which is when soldiers are recalled to combat after they have already completed their tours. A large number of soldiers at Fort Lewis are being stop lossed at this moment [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: May 6, 2009
Very little about imperialism has changed since the First Crusade. Imperialism, evangelism, and militarism collide with this video released by Al Jazeera late yesterday. Churches raise money so that US soldiers can distribute Bibles in Pashtu and Dari to Afghan people after they’ve bombed and slaughtered their families.
The religious peoples view [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: May 5, 2009
Just like in 2003 when the New York Times convinced hundreds of smaller American newspapers and persuaded public opinion that invading Iraq was justified, now the same newspaper is whipping up support for escalating the war in Pakistan.
Today it ran a front page story on the danger of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and another on radical [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: February 1, 2009
“I guess the buzz word around here is ’smart power’,” said a senator at the hearing for Hilary Clinton’s initiation as the US Secretary of State two weeks ago. It’s true, all everyone kept saying at this hearing was “smart power”.
Sometimes the phrases IR studies professors come up with are unnecessary. Smart power is supposed [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: January 10, 2009
Robert Fisk, British correspondent for the UK newspaper The Independent and credited by the phrase ‘fisking‘, has in his new book “The Age of the Warrior” brought attention to two separate and very distinct US Armed Forces creeds. The first was originally created after the My Lai massacre in Vietnam to encourage ‘professional’ conduct in [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: November 30, 2008
Somalia is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. While international eyes scorn the recent hijackings of over 40 shipping vessels off Somalia’s coast and berate the perceived “lawlessness” of the pirates who hold them for millions of dollars ransom, the pirates have accused European multi-national corporations (specifically, Swiss and Italian) of dumping toxic [...]
Posted by: lettrist on: October 21, 2008
“The revolutionary organization must learn that it can no longer combat alienation with alienated means.”
- Situationist International
This was a central tenet of the SI, guiding their work on the spectacle’s recuperative strategies and especially the strategies of the subordinated classes. I am taking a look at the indigenous organization in Bolivia from the 1990s to [...]
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