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From our perspective it is reckless, desperate, criminal - but from their's it is all part of their - well-documented by now, from PNAC on - "evil planning," with countless historical precedents, as summarised below. Death Mask: The Deliberate Disintegration of Iraq [This from back on...

Well yes, it is a disaster, getting even more dangerous by the hour, but not for the neo-cons - "only" for the rest of the world. As for Vietnam - even Chomsky argues convincingly that the US achieved its strategic goals there - to completely destroy the country, so enfeebling the subsequent...

Alternatively: The Bush Gang: "A veritable juggernaut of competence." By the estimable Jack Riddler: "The awesome competence of the Bush regime" (a post buried in a DU forum): [via Qlipoth] Those who call the Bush mob "incompetent" make a fatal error. On some unconscious level, they seem...

Snow White [read] and the 14,000 Dwarfs Apparently, at last Saturday's Tate viewing and Meese performance, some bright spark hurled an unidentified object down onto Whiteread's work - possibly one of the Stuckists, the anti-conceptual activist group - Aren't these jaded pomo rituals...

"You think I'm here to amuse you, to entertain you?" [Pesci, Goodfellas]

Mister Matthew: Yes, but its a rather brutal mistranslation [in Sturges' star-driven adaptation above] of the original dialogue from Kurosawa's epic, viz "We've survived yet again ... we've lost yet again. With their land, the farmers are the victors - not us." Droid: "White man's burden...

Keith P: You certainly admire your confidence in "the power of information" and the incorrigibility of party-political Dimocracy. Legitimate scepticism about the Official 9/11 story is grounded in numerous historical precedents, from Pearl Harbour to this, Operation Northwoods: The...

D. W. Griffith dabbled in silent westerns at Biograph Studios, producing such films as: Last Drop of Water (1911), with the western's first characteristic scenes of a wagon train siege and a cavalry rescue the innovatively-filmed Fighting Blood (1911) about conflict between white settlers...

Most all Westerns are "historical" dramas, Johanek; you're confusing genre with period, and "flawed" and "racist" are invariably inherent characteristics of the Western genre, including many of those neo-Westerns that "try/tried" to deconstruct it (including films by Leone, Peckinpak, Penn...

Which means, by similar means, we'll have to properly begin renaming it 11/9: "The willingness of journalists to accept the establishment's view of the events of, and after, 9/11 is truly staggering." Either this or or this action replay

Woebot: Lets see some more cute little Piccies on Dissensus! You don't mean that, surely! Surely: Oh, I'm sorry! Did I interrupt your terms of reference? Wait, wait ... ah! There we are, yess, yeesss ... she's waiting - anxiously ... For HIM, after his root-reconstruction job:

Henry S: and movies like The Wild Bunch and The Unforgiven are great precisely because they critique the western narrative... Eastwood's Unforgiven ostensibly critiques it only to viscerally, sadistically reinforce it in its violently revenge-deadlocked denouement. Mister Matthew: yes i...

For What it's worth: Michael Cimino's unsurpassed Heaven's Gate (the long, 4 hour un-butchered version), the definitive post-Vietnam revisionist-nihilist Western. Sam Peckinpah's work - Pat Garret and Billy the Kid, The Wild Bunch (and his urban-cowboy westerns, Straw Dogs and Bring Me...

Update on Arrested Documentary Stars [via Lenin's Tomb] One of the arrested gives his account: ----------------------------------------- ***And another trivial blast from the pre-Iraq-invasion past: One of the world's most renowned film-makers, Iranian Abbas Kiarostami, was denied a US...

As the Western Racist Paranoia continues ... "Citing the "Prevention of Terrorism" act, British Police have arrested and interrogated three of the stars of the award-winning film "The Road to Guantanamo", together with the three ex-Guantanomo detainees on whose story the film is based...

Am I permitted to laugh, or would that be considered as too anti-Zionist? Well, Marx would get on just grand with Wilde, admiring his fetish for Dorian Grey rather than your fetish for irridentist, racist nationalism, Freud would have had Joyce as his literary-aesthetic "beyond the pleasure...

RE: Is Israel like Apartheid South Africa? Yes, it is ... only worse. Israeli apartheid: Zionism not only supposes that Jewish people (including converts) enjoy ethnic, national or historical rights to Palestine but that these rights are superior to the rights of the native population. Unlike...

Iran Update [continued] Elsewhere, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says [Facing a potential nuclear holocaust at the hands of Iran] the United States must do everything in its power to bring about regime change there, even if it means invading that nation ... as the World Jewish Congress...

Iran Update -------------------------------------- As Iranbodycount publishes its findings Iran Consequences Of War: "This briefing paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the likely nature of US or Israeli military action that would be intended to disable Iran's nuclear capabilities. It...

Hi bohs. Yes, I attended that same Zizek address last November [much frantic-anxious discussion with him and Luke Gibbons later in the Montrose Hotel that night ...]. It was Schumann [though Zizek also has written about Schubert re Stalingrad], and he was using the example as an illustration...