Category Archives: War

Prezident Kozyr’s diplomacy as reality-TV genre

Posted on January 18, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann sunmers   Reality-TV rather than Realism … Nikolai Volkoff is known for teaming with The Iron Sheik, with whom he won the WWF Tag Team Championship at the inaugural WrestleMania event, and also with Boris Zukhov as The … Continue reading →

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Structural substitution and the logic of urban modernism

Posted on December 31, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers occupying a space for a time en.wikipedia.org/… Here are some examples of cultural substitution in the built environment that articulate multiple meanings and identify an axis or axes of more than geodetic importance. Every historical site is both monumental and … Continue reading →

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Trump has ended Performance Art forever

Posted on December 28, 2016 by ann li-summers

  “Aktion artist Hermann Nitsch, for example, was arrested and imprisoned numerous times for breaking Austrian indecency laws by masturbating and enacting violent sexual scenes in his performances” … (“(Art) History, it’s reputable” – John Smith in Mr. & Mrs. … Continue reading →

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The present you don’t want to unwrap in front of your nuclear family because Trump is Vlad’s Stepford Wife

Posted on December 24, 2016 by ann li-summers

    By ann summers Trump as Russian dupe… It’s not 1987, and state-sponsored terrorist is not an epitaph or an Xmas wish… This is how kleptocracy works and the GOP is complicit, even at the level of TV (b)romance. … Continue reading →

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It all began with “Thank you for your service”

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Terry Welshans

My wife and are are now home from the events at the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. It was a long trip, about twelve flying hours in a coach seat, thankfully overnight for half of the trip. We … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: ENCRYPTED

Posted on December 16, 2016 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD When the Germans invaded Denmark in April, 1940, Piet Hein (1905-1996) was a 34-year-old scientist and inventor, who had to decide between three responses: do nothing, flee to “neutral” Sweden — or join the Danish resistance movement. As he explained … Continue reading →

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Reflections on a Pearl

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Terry Welshans

By Terry Welshans This view looks about east, with the supply depot, submarine base and fuel tank farm in the right center distance. A torpedo has just hit USS West Virginia on the far side of Ford Island (center). Other … Continue reading →

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Orange Gasbag’s Strategy of Tension continues with RWNJ classics … flag burning, HUAC …

Posted on November 29, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 29, 2016 The current political … Continue reading →

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There will be a Trumpian war, but will it win its Berlusconi time slot

Posted on November 20, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Truck Nutz Nation will get its war, what becomes important is that while there will be protest, resistance (and enlistment), and ultimately destruction and death regardless of outrage, the consequences and aftermath must be anticipated. After all, … Continue reading →

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Trumpism becomes a tense ethno-nationalist party of werewolves, There!

Posted on October 27, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Blame-gaming escalates as Election Day approaches and the Crème brûlée is about to crack. Brown, White, and Black Eggs matter to founders’ states of baker’s dozens. If all politics is local, all racism is localism. Expect a term … Continue reading →

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