By John Dolan
After reviewing so many well-meaning, badly-written books, it’s a pleasure to dissect the work of a skilled liar. The liar in question is Leon Aron, the book is Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life…
Jul 12, 2016 | Comments (9)
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By Yasha Levine
It’s just past Christmas here in Germany and and headed to Hamburg to report on 32c3, the annual Chaos Computer Club conference. And I gotta admit, I’m a bit unnerved.
Dec 27, 2015 | Comments (4)
By Yasha Levine
When I first started reporting on the subprime suburb of Victorville, I little expected that the neighboring town of Adelanto would become ground zero for a fight between billionaires on one side and poor kids on the other.
Dec 5, 2015 | Comments Off on Pulling the Trigger: School Privatization in California’s Subprime Suburbs
The War Nerd and host Mark Ames recorded a special free episode of Radio War Nerd, their subscriber-supported podcast show, to cover the recent Paris attacks.
Nov 16, 2015 | Comments (2)
By Yasha Levine
A bit of random war nerd porn from my Surveillance Valley archive research. This one comes courtesy of a taxpayer funded military rag called “Army Research & Development.” It shows a rare specimen: a 1969 vintage Pentagon Quadruped Hotrod. Kinda…
Nov 9, 2015 | Comments Off on From the Archives: Pentagon’s 1969 Quadruped Hotrod
By Tim Shorrock
This article was first published on timshorrock.com. In January 2010, a few days after a Nigerian terrorist came close to blowing up a US passenger plane on its way to Detroit, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser made an extraordinary confession. “I told…
Oct 27, 2015 | Leave Comment
By John Dolan
Zinky Boys focuses, much more than any Nam memoir I know, on the dead. Even the title refers to the closed zinc coffins in which Soviet dead were sent home.
Oct 8, 2015 | Comments (1)
