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“ Strikes at population targets (per se) are likely not only to create a counterproductive wave of revulsion abroad and at home, but greatly to increase the risk of enlarging the war with China and the Soviet Union. Destruction of locks and dams, however - if handled right - might…offer promise. It should be studied. Such destruction does not kill or drown people. By shallow-flooding the rice, it leads after time to widespread starvation (more than a million?) unless food is provided - which we could offer to do ‘at the conference table.’

— John McNaughton, The Pentagon Papers

02.26.13 ♥ 2
Black Girl Dangerous: The Fallen

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by Mia McKenzie

It’s Memorial Day. It’s the official day of honoring Americans who have died in all wars. Officially, these wars include the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, etc. You know, official wars. I have complicated feelings about all of those wars,…

05.28.12 ♥ 45
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Zoom My mother gave up her dreams and her homeland for our family. / Mi madre dejo su sueños y su patria por su familia.

My mother gave up her dreams and her homeland for our family. / Mi madre dejo su sueños y su patria por su familia.

04.11.12 ♥ 94
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Zoom Steve Mumford, artist embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan. I’d love to see what he can do when he’s not embedded with the occupiers.

Steve Mumford, artist embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

I’d love to see what he can do when he’s not embedded with the occupiers.

03.26.12 ♥ 1
Zoom pantslessprogressive: Dr. Cornel West at the Occupy Wall Street protest Tuesday evening. [Photo: @linktothepast86]

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Dr. Cornel West at the Occupy Wall Street protest Tuesday evening. [Photo: @linktothepast86]

10.01.11 ♥ 16379
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Zoom laborreguita: true stuff.  I decided to use my education for the good of my community and my people, and I will be in debt for years. Yet, those who wish the buy devices of death can get one cheaper than some text books.

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true stuff. 

I decided to use my education for the good of my community and my people, and I will be in debt for years. Yet, those who wish the buy devices of death can get one cheaper than some text books.

09.09.11 ♥ 42662
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“ The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it’s probably too late because the United States has never done that; it’s always gone it alone. To say that we’re going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it’s a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren’t prepared.There isn’t a clear goal in sight. Osama bin Laden’s organization has spun out from him and is now probably independent of him. There will be others who will appear and reappear. This is why we need a much more precise, a much more defined, a much more patiently constructed campaign, as well as one that surveys not just the terrorists’ presence but the root causes of terrorism, which are ascertainable.

— Edward Said on what U.S. response to 9/11 should be. (Published November 2001)

08.31.11 ♥ 5
“ ¡Para mañana todos estaremos muertos por la tarde por este hijueputa telégrafo!

— Capitàn Villalta de Zavala, Nicaragua on the thousands of indigenous soldiers attacking the city after it mandated cutting through indigenous territory to build a telegraph line.

08.09.11 ♥ 3