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by l3mure 3y ago
It's like saying Hitler was right because Germany is doing pretty well today and Russia isn't, which unfortunately would also not surprise me.
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by l3mure 3y ago
It's not particularly wild because the South Korean government was almost entirely fascist collaborators who had run the colonial government for Japan, and who were reinstalled by mass violence and the crushing of dissent, with US appr
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In the planning phase of the 2003 Iraq invasion: [1] > As a result, the executive steering group and its supporting working groups spent extensive time on building a humanitarian assistance package for Iraq, but comparatively little tim
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by l3mure 3y ago
Americans are truly the most brainwashed people on the planet.
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Their post is dripping with that peculiar tone of abuser melodramatics, really sick stuff.
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It's just a corny rebrand of commons enclosure. I guess it's good if it gets more people to look into that concept though.
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by l3mure 3y ago
> In the beginning, they were inspired and immunized by the US's anti-Muslim fervor during the GWB invasions (we were not only not criticizing, but probably even sharing intelligence with China.) Yeah, seems to be overlooked quite a
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by l3mure 3y ago
> Thomas didn’t report any of the trips ProPublica identified on his annual financial disclosures. Ethics experts said the law clearly requires disclosure for private jet flights and Thomas appears to have violated it. > Justices are
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by l3mure 3y ago
I don't see any reference to why this research was being done. The mosquito and pesticide studies seem likely to be DoD/CIA related since they fit neatly in the pattern of other unethical testing we know they were doing. The named
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by l3mure 3y ago
Using a wireless controller for this is so funny, we need more grifters like them.
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Pentagon’s PSB trawls social media for mean tweets about generals(theintercept.com)
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by l3mure 3y ago
> mostly anti-Han resentment Lying. [1] > An estimate is that around 2,000 Chinese Indonesians were killed (out of a total estimated death toll of between 500,000 and 3 million people), with documented massacres taking place in Makass
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by l3mure 3y ago
> because the US was now friends with China against the Soviet Union The US also got the anti-communist genocide and friendly dictator it desired in Indonesia, which was considered a major win for its interests in the region.
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by l3mure 3y ago
> Wikipedia doesn't seem to mention any contamination issues FTA: > St. Louis’ baby teeth were, indeed, packed with radioactive metals. The study found that children who grew up at the height of the Cold War in 1963 had 50 times
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by l3mure 3y ago
Radiological testing on the now infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing complex: [1] > Pruitt-Igoe was not proof of a Cold War logic; it did not display the “inevitable” failures of planned housing. It was an organized sabotage—and a clandestine si
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by l3mure 3y ago
Extremely on brand for HN, there's always a notable contingent in these kinds of threads.
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by l3mure 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if certain states start forcibly relocating homeless people any day now.
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by l3mure 3y ago
It's true, the cleansing of the American west and propaganda like Birth of a Nation should be understood as prototypes for fascism. Hitler makes the connection himself: [1] > Hitler frequently compared the German war for Lebensraum
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by l3mure 3y ago
> most leftist (which means most of HN) lmao
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by l3mure 3y ago
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/ > Over 937,000 people have died in the post-9/11 wars due to direct war violence, and several times as many due to the reverberating effects of war > An estimated 3.6-3.7
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by l3mure 3y ago
Multiple brutal dictatorships, which were a direct continuation of Japanese colonial control, and which massacred their own people with US support and approval. > In the fall of 1946, the US military authorized elections to an interim l
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by l3mure 3y ago
'Blood on his hands,' the other 3 flesh out specific claims.
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by l3mure 3y ago
> An exclusive archive of formerly classified U.S. military documents — assembled from the files of a secret Pentagon task force that investigated war crimes during the 1970s, inspector generals’ inquiries buried amid thousands of pages
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Kissinger's killing fields(theintercept.com)
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by l3mure 3y ago
> impossible to calculate the amount of good Oh that's easy actually. It's zero.
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by l3mure 3y ago
The CIA did something similar with: > Frank Snepp’s Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End Told by the CIA’s Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam, which was published in late 1977. > At the very least Snepp had wr
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by l3mure 3y ago
Reluctant Metropolis looks interesting, thanks. I'd also recommend Mike Davis' City of Quartz .
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Britain's forgotten war for rubber(declassifieduk.org)
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Britain's involvement in Malaya runs in parallel both temporally and in other aspects to other more well-known colonial debacles from France and the US in southeast Asia. > “In its narrower context”, the Foreign Office observed in a
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> U.S. Asks to Drop Case Accusing N.Y.P.D. Officer of Spying for China > The charges against Officer Angwang came amid growing concern on the part of law enforcement authorities in the United States and other Western countries about B

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