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Jacobin #34
War is a Racket
- GenresNonfictionPolitics
172 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2019
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Jacobin
68 books129 followersJacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches over 10,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of 600,000 a month.
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April 18, 2020
1.) So many international bases, many secret for extraordinary rendition (ie. torture)
2.) Somehow the military men and women are treated as absolute heroes. If they were used in jobs where they didn't carry a weapon-actually doing humanitarian work, yes they would be heroes. Instead they just make the world a less safe, food secure place. Where is the heroism of guiding a missile into a compound or a market?
3.) An article by Nick Turse (see review of "Kill everything that moves.") about the whistleblowers in post Vietnam that spoke out about the daily killings and torture they saw commited. Not the Mai Lai massacre but daily things like pushing people in front of passing troop carriers or tanks. Its so horrific that nobody even wants to believe it happened and the fact that there was never any justice tells me it is not so much of an exceptional few but more of a guiding principle when our troops are not supervised.
Excuse me, I have to now go and vote for a presidential candidate who voted to invade Iraq....those are now are our choices America. Maybe another bland Democrat losing will FINALLY teach liberal voters a lesson that they can't win by throwing trash onto the debate stage every four years.
2.) Somehow the military men and women are treated as absolute heroes. If they were used in jobs where they didn't carry a weapon-actually doing humanitarian work, yes they would be heroes. Instead they just make the world a less safe, food secure place. Where is the heroism of guiding a missile into a compound or a market?
3.) An article by Nick Turse (see review of "Kill everything that moves.") about the whistleblowers in post Vietnam that spoke out about the daily killings and torture they saw commited. Not the Mai Lai massacre but daily things like pushing people in front of passing troop carriers or tanks. Its so horrific that nobody even wants to believe it happened and the fact that there was never any justice tells me it is not so much of an exceptional few but more of a guiding principle when our troops are not supervised.
Excuse me, I have to now go and vote for a presidential candidate who voted to invade Iraq....those are now are our choices America. Maybe another bland Democrat losing will FINALLY teach liberal voters a lesson that they can't win by throwing trash onto the debate stage every four years.
March 5, 2021
This was a good issue. I have to say I think Jacobin does a lot better in the articles that are more focused on data, history, or even human interest stories. The more current, partisan political essays are often much less interesting, and feel like weak-sauce blog posts.
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