Pinboard: bookmarks for maciej tagged 'us'

"China doesn't really know what it wants to be next. It just knows that it doesn't want to be what it used to be: a feudal country that foreigners could carve up like a ripe melon" Really nice analysis of the US - China relationship and its dysfunctions

china politics international relations analysis interesting us
october 2006 by maciej

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The Long Mistake - TIME Asia Magazine, Dec. 13, 2004

time magazine article about robert jenkins. More details

dprk north_korea jenkins cold_war mil us hist japan
october 2006 by maciej

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Kokuhaku: Pictures at Black Ship

amazing photos from the recently-published (in Japanese) book of an American defector to north korea

north_korea mil us history photo cool
october 2006 by maciej

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The disgracefulness of Charles Frazier. By Stephen Metcalf - Slate Magazine

a great angry book review

review book crushing roar lit cult us america slavery ha
october 2006 by maciej

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Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer by Maureen Ogle, reviewed by Powells.com

rehabilitating the giant breweries

beer book contrarian cult us
october 2006 by maciej

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United Airlines Flight 629 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

another example of plane bombed to collect insurance. This was inspired by the Albert Guay affair

bomb us aviation risk
october 2006 by maciej

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This Is What Waterboarding Looks Like | The Huffington Post
torture photo cambodia us mil
october 2006 by maciej

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Guard families cope in two dimensions - The Boston Globe

cardboard cutouts of soldiers for all your creepy family needs. A big RealDoll market opportunity here

wtf military culture us ha war mil
september 2006 by maciej

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Fairfax Native Says Allen's Words Stung

Allen makes pessimal choice of guy to call "macaca". Squeaky clean overachiever with a heart of gold, and unlike Allen native to the county

doh politics us ha iammacaca idiot
august 2006 by maciej

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Taliban's terror tactics reconquer Afghanistan

Afghanistan is apparently being abandoned to its fate

taliban afghanistan war_on_terrah neglect anarchy politics us
august 2006 by maciej

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Inquiry Suggests Marines Excised Files on Killings - New York Times

more evidence surfaces about the haditha murders. Tampering with evidence, aerial (drone!) video contradicting testimony

marines murder atrocity us haditha iraq uav
august 2006 by maciej

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Desperate Grandmas by Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Summer 2006

"senescent sexual adventures" is a great phrase

soc sex feminism cult us rant ha narcissism lit age
august 2006 by maciej

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Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast - New York Times

US will ship cluster bombs to Israel if Israel pinky-promises not to use them against civilians (again)

war mil israel lebanon atrocity arms_dealing politics us
august 2006 by maciej

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Time for a "War on Fat"

'The Fourth Amendment will offer no protection to the obese as their doors are battered down by heavily armed representatives of the "Fat Enforcement Agency (FEA)"'

NO_FATTIES ha manifesto rant idiot politics cult us
july 2006 by maciej

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The New York Review of Books: Mindless in Iraq

devastating article on the casual ineptitude of bush-era iraq policy

iraq books review politics us incompetence oppress no
july 2006 by maciej

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'It Looked Weird and Felt Wrong'

show me on the doll where you murdered all those iraqi civilians

mil us atrocity iraq oppress americafuckyeah
july 2006 by maciej

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The Resurrection of Pearl Buck
china lit us cult
july 2006 by maciej

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Asian Dolls, Oriental Dolls, Chinese dolls, Korean Dolls,

aww yeah. "As your child changes from an infant to a toddler, the Asian baby doll you choose should change also." And maybe get an Asian RealDoll for your Chinese mail-order bride!

hate china cult asiafetish creepy adoption us toy
july 2006 by maciej

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Imagethief

American PR guy in Beijing writes a good blog

blog china beijing us
july 2006 by maciej

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Frank Jr., the Unsung Sinatra

great WaPo profile of Frank Sinatra Jr.

music song cult us sinatra
july 2006 by maciej

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Ex-G.I. Charged in Slayings of 4 and Rape in Iraq - New York Times

your tax dollars at work

atrocity iraq us mil
july 2006 by maciej

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Inspiried piece of senatorial idiocy - Ted Stevens of Alaska on the internets

And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

internet politics us gov idiot ha
july 2006 by maciej

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Chron.com | Discovery engineer says he was forced out in safety dispute
shuttle risk engineering politics us space nasa
june 2006 by maciej

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spiked | Brad, Angelina and the rise of 'celebrity colonialism'

the ultimate velvet rope - Namibian border control

ha celebrity idiot africa colonialism cult us
june 2006 by maciej

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New Frontiers in Takeout - New York Times

summon Genghis Khan

us eat culture no food obesity car
june 2006 by maciej

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Heroes of My Lai

Harrowing first-person accounts by Hugh Thompson and Ron Ridenhour

my_lai vietnam massacre us mil
june 2006 by maciej

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The My Lai Massacre: Seymour Hersh's Complete and Unabridged Reporting for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, November 1969 /Candide's Notebooks

original articles

my_lai vietnam atrocity us mil hist
june 2006 by maciej

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Fray post on class-dependent inflation rates
slate econ inflation cult us
june 2006 by maciej

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slacktivist: Left Behind

a devout christian blogger's glorious and very funny demolition of the Left Behind series, chapter by chapter

jeebus left behind rapture fundamentalism ha cult us blog
june 2006 by maciej

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | New 'Iraq massacre' tape emerges

more evidence of civilians being killed by american soldiers in iraq. The quote about "ethical training" is surreal

atrocity war iraq us marines
june 2006 by maciej

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Files Contradict Account of Raid in Iraq - New York Times

more info on the apparent massacre of iraqi ciivlians by us marines

war mil iraq atrocity us
may 2006 by maciej

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Gall-Peters projection

history of the brouhaha and a study in sociology

maps cartography sociology politics us
may 2006 by maciej

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Immigration Laws (language and history requirement)

details on what is expected from naturalized citizens

vote us lang politics policy immigration naturalization
may 2006 by maciej

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In Haditha, Memories of a Massacre

absolutely horrible article about indiscriminate killing by US Marines in an Iraqi village

atrocity war mil iraq war_on_terrah aggro no us
may 2006 by maciej

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Bat bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

amazing wwii-era project to disseminate incendiary bomblets by strapping them to bats

bat boom bomb wwii wtf bathacks mil us hist
may 2006 by maciej

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Physics teacher under fire for gun experiment

depressing article on a cool-sounding physics teacher enduring general freakout

culture_of_fear physics pedagogy us blah gun
may 2006 by maciej

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What's wrong with libertarianism

it's the philosophy of a snotty teen, someone who's read too much Heinlein, absorbed the sordid notion that an intellectual elite should rule the subhuman masses, and convinced himself that reading a few bad novels qualifies him as a member of the elite.

politics rant ha libertarianism cult us econ
may 2006 by maciej

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American culture quiz

the list that spawned it all. Includes links to lots of fun ports

cult quiz us ethnography
may 2006 by maciej

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