Chimps Too Wage War
While I was hiding out from the news for a week or so, this little myth destroyer appeared. One of …
Category Archives: War
The Burmese Harp: Fires on the Plain: Two Films
When Kon Ichikawa‘s name is mentioned, ears don’t perk up in recognition. Even if “film maker” is added as …
White Light / Black Rain
More than 64 years have gone by since atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, August 6 and …
Katyn: A Film
I was just on the cusp of realizing that “foreign” films existed and were a real alternative to what 1950s …
Nanking: 1937
In the macabre history of human horrors the Japanese Army’s Rape of Nanking, China, December 1937, stands in the first …
Charlie Wilson’s War
Charlie Wilson’s War, the new Mike Nichols film based on George Crile’s book of the same name opened last week …
A Song
By Max Aub, Spain Translation by Will Kirkland The sun crackles and the earth is mute. No shade for anyone. …
The Sutras of Abu Ghraib
Aidan Delgado is a brave man. A man you want on your team. Not because he faces danger without trembling, …
Poems from Guantanamo
IS IT TRUE? By Osama Abu Kabir Is it true that the grass grows again after rain? Is it true …
War is the Pornography
Chris Hedges is trying to speak out the rot he saw in decades as a front line war reporter, and …
Carrier Now Launching At Afghanistan
Just thought you’d like to know, after a fist full of weeks in the Persian Gulf, launching its aircraft towards …
American Losers
While Americans are caught up in American Idol it is “just so negative!” to think about the real costs of …