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    Where Did Putin Come From?

    I’m a huge fan of Adam Curtis, maybe you can tell.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • November 1, 2022
    • Politics, War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 10 Comments

    Dour Russians

    Russians are all in the news, today.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 31, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, Totalitarianism, War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 8 Comments

    Slamming Into Propaganda

    Have you ever had the experience of realizing, in a moment of clarity, that something you accepted as a fact was, in fact, a  “framing” propaganda that you had seamlessly adopted into your world-view?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • October 29, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 14 Comments

    Stanislav Petrov Day, 2022

    We are the heroes of our own mythology.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • September 26, 2022
    • War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 15 Comments

    More Nuclear Nuggets

    This is in the “weird tales of nuclear bombs or power” department. I don’t get enough of these, so I won’t make it a cagegory.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • August 30, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 4 Comments

    Under the Gonne

    By now you’ve heard that Shinzo Abe was murdered yesterday; he was shot in the back and died more or less instantly.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • July 8, 2022
    • War is a Racket, We are Fucked, WTF
    • 10 Comments

    Cosmopolitanism and Defensive Warfare


    There is a book that I have returned to over and over again, for years. It fascinates me, because it exposes a lot of philosophical problems that I had never considered.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 28, 2022
    • Nationalism is Bullshit, Philosophy, War is a Racket
    • 28 Comments

    World War 3 Notes – A Matter of Range, Part 2

    In 2016 I wrote a piece here that partially touched on the matter of range in warfare. [stderr]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • June 1, 2022
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket
    • 52 Comments

    It Always Comes Out, Eventually

    [Warning: Torture]

    I’m not sure why, but psychopaths sure do like to brag, don’t they?

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 15, 2022
    • CIA, Things that make blood squirt out my ears, War is a Racket
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    Uncommon Sense: Bayonets

    This is from Jeffrey St Clair’s “Roaming Charges” column over at Counterpunch [cp]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • April 9, 2022
    • Uncommon Sense, War is a Racket
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