Democracy Is Messy : The Green Zone
In an odd foreshadowing, the same day that former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated that she would “many times over liberate Iraq again from Saddam Hussein,” I saw Paul Greengrass‘ new Iraq War film Green Zone starring frequent Greengrass collaborator and star of the highly successful Jason Bourne franchise, Matt Damon.
The film opens [...]
Condoleezza Rice : U.S. Should Have Rebuilt Iraq ‘From Outside Baghdad In’
Former U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, speaking in Hong Kong said she does not regret going into Iraq and would do it again if she had to.
However, in a lesson that could be transposed to Afghanistan, Rice admits to not fully understanding the complexity of the situation in Iraq and among the Iraqi people [...]
Video : Saad Mohseni on Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow began the segment of tonight’s show by stating how much she had been waiting to speak to Saad Mohseni and ended the interviewing by saying how incredible Mr. Mohseni and his family’s success was, how it said so much about Afghanistan as a nation and yet the interview was completely dull and uneventful:
“They [...]
Karl Lagerfeld’s Crazy Classism Continues
The man who famously stated that he drives a Hummer because he doesn’t “want to drive at the same level as the others” now proves himself to be even more out of touch with the rest of the world.
The man is absolutely crazy, but not quite at the level that would make him entirely endearing [...]
Video : Talibanksy Tags Dollar Signs and Poppies Around Kabul
As M.I.A.’s Paper Planes – a song about hustling as a form of survival in a hostile environment – plays in the background Talibanksy uses guerilla street art to point out the harvesting and trafficking of Opium is funding militants in Afghanistan while bewildered Afghans look on. Amazing.
How much, states the video’s title slide as [...]
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