Endless War category archive
“We’ve Heard This Song Before” 0
Thom discusses evangelism and evangelical causes and the danger thereof when they become political.
He starts by somewhat awkwardly establishing a premise the Communism was an evangelical movement, that, one that wished to convince persons to follow it to the exclusion of others, and moves on to argue that evangelical movements can lead to crusades. It’s not as polished as his usual presentations, but I think it’s well worth a listen.
Jingo Unchained 0
Josh Marshall reflects on Donald Trump’s view of the rest of the world.
War Games 0
From my local rag:
Unlike other types of submarines people are familiar with from Hollywood, Virginia-class submarines don’t have a traditional rotating tube periscope that only one person can look through at a time.
It’s been replaced with two photonics masts that rotate 360 degrees. They feature high-resolution cameras whose images are displayed on large monitors that everyone in the control room can see. There’s no barrel to peer through anymore; everything is controlled with a helicopter-style stick. But that stick isn’t so popular.
In the “words fail me” department, the story goes on to point out that the XBox controllers will cost just 0.1% of the controller designed by the defense contractor.
War and Mongers of War 0
At The Guardian, Paul Mason opines that Trump will indeed go there. A snippet:
Been nice knowin’ ya.
Afterthought:
It’s truly disturbing that we have reached a point of hoping that Kim Jong-Un is the sane one.
Also, I think Donald Trump and his dupes, symps, and fellow travelers grossly over-estimate China’s influence over Kim Jong-Un.
The Return of Swampwater 0
A rumor has been floated that Donald Trump is considering outsourcing Afghanistan to Erik Prince and Blackwater (which has since been renamed several times I forget its current alias because it did such a good job the first time).
A snippet:
War and Mongers of War 0
Lee Camp argues that Donald Trump is following precedent to lie us into lies. (The relevant portion is approximately the first half of the show.)
Warning: Language.
47 Years Ago . . . 0
. . . American soldiers turned their guns on American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to protest one of America’s wars for a lie–not for the first nor for the last time.
I learned about it when one of my friends came into the Campus Center (aka Student Union) at my college and said, “They’re killing us.”