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Tag Archives: war
Movies I’m Watching:Defiance
This is one of the few Daniel Craig movies that didn’t immediately ratchet my inferiority complex up to a new level. The movie stars Craig and Liev Schreiber as Jewish brothers living in Byelorussia during the time of the Nazis. … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Standard Operating Procedure
Films like this fill in a huge vacuum between the run of the mill Hollywood fare and Michael Moore’s more openly polemical films. His latest effort, about the prisoner torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib aptly demonstrates, yet again, that … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent
Brilliant. One of the most masterful of war films I have ever seen. The Russians have a singular flair and talent for war films–I mean this black and white, grainy dramas where humanity is thrown back upon itself. In the … Continue reading
Books I’m Reading: Paris: The Secret History
I looked up the word “flaneur” in the index of hte boojks and skipped straight to it: I’d heard this term first in books by and about Walter Benjamin, and the idea of these urban wanderers–poets, wastrels, misfits, outsiders, rebels–was … Continue reading
Life, books, literature, poetry, politics
19th c., balzac, baudelaire, culture, flaneur, history, intellectuals, literature, paris, poems, poetry, poets, revolution, secret, war, writers
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Olympic Iraqi sprinter using busted second-hand spikes for competition
伊拉克女队员穿二手跑鞋参加奥运(图)_网易奥运 via kwout Pictures of the old shoes and T-shirts that the Iraqi team are using have been circulating around the internet. Here are some supposed pictures of the pair of shoes that Dana Hussein is going to use. Chinese … Continue reading
Movies that I’ve watched: Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park
One of the better movies that i’ve seen in awhile. The film, shot like a documentary, takes place in 1970s America, where the Vietnam War wages and on a cultural schism has opened up between those that support the establishment … Continue reading
America, movies
1960s, 60s, 70s, America, anti-war, antiwar, black, california, dissent, feminist, hippy, nixon, peter watkins, protest, protesters, punishment, radical, sixties, US, vietnam, war, watkins
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Vanity Fair’s awesome article on US attempts to create civil war in the Gaza Strip
The Gaza Bombshell: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com via kwout Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza … Continue reading