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#ELECTION 2014 US comedy show host John Oliver takes a dig at Arnab (and berates the US media for ignoring the Indian polls) 'Don't pretend you aren't interested in this, America. The last time you heard a rags-to-riches story about a tea-selling Indian kid, you threw a f***ing Oscar at it.' Scroll Staff ·
http://scroll.in/article/663108/US-...s-the-US-media-for-ignoring-the-Indian-polls)
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You are blaming your personal sexual and racist problems on John Oliver?
I'm doubtful he's the reason you are the way you are.
Believe it or not, the US has free speech and I can criticize anyone I want.
No matter how bad someone is in the US, I can still criticize you for what you post, claim or even do.
The difference between you and I is that I do not argue coverups for those in my country that do evil while you have concerning terrorists.
I confront you on being a racist pervert while you try to rationalize abuse of women and having spewed a damning racist comment.
mazHur....you are a hypocritical pseudo intellectual pervert racist.
Keep on topic..I don't need your sermonising or to know what you are or what you can be upto. You are a coward, a troll which you have proved ...after failing the debate you resorted to mean threats...Shame on you!!
I don't think anybody likes you at home...and even no gal would like to befriend a snob that you are.
Intelligent people must have got it....closedminds and dunce can't
mazHur, why do think a dog fucking a woman in the ass, a white woman at that, is humor?
Why is sexual abuse of women funny to you, or was it because she was white?
Now, you are a racist, mazHur. That's not a question. I've proven it by your own words.
You posted:
For that remark, you ought to apologize to the forum.
The two issues do look connected.
mazHur, you can throw nastiness at me all week long and I really don't mind.
It proves how close I've come in exposing your beliefs while you have no rebuttal other than name calling and meaningless posts.
Plus, I don't respect your intellect enough to be offended.
mazHur, you can throw nastiness at me all week long and I really don't mind.
It proves how close I've come in exposing your beliefs while you have no rebuttal other than name calling and meaningless posts.
Plus, I don't respect your intellect enough to be offended.
can't you stop your rhetoric like a pastor??
What are my beliefs?? I don't think the way you think about me.
you ought to go and take a bath
mazHur, why do think a dog fucking a woman in the ass, a white woman at that, is humor?
Why is sexual abuse of women funny to you, or was it because she was white?
Now, you are a racist, mazHur. That's not a question. I've proven it by your own words.
You posted:
For that remark, you ought to apologize to the forum.
The two issues do look connected.
repetitions and repititions ,,,that's all you have to make to try to wriggly out from the ignominy of being badly beaten and knocked out of debate//
don't cry , baby, this is not the end of the world
Nothing's changed, mazHur.
You still haven't answered why you think sexually abusing white women is funny.
That's called a non responsive reply, mazHur.
Why do you think it's funny to sexually abuse white women?
Here is a passage from Tom,,,,,food for thought for the ignorant,
“Strafe the town and kill the people,
Drop napalm in the square,
Get out early every Sunday
And catch them at their morning prayer.”
the last piece Jonathan Schell wrote for this site, as well as for the Nation magazine, before his death on March 25th. In his final act at TomDispatch, he offered a reminder that he was one of the great war correspondents of our time. (Just pick up The Village of Ben Suc and The Military Half, his two famed New Yorker reports on the Vietnam War, for confirmation of this.) Though people normally think of him as being a war correspondent only in his earliest journalistic years, to my mind he remained one all his life. With his third book, The Time of Illusion, however, he began to turn his attention to the most devastating war of all, the one that could never be fought without truly becoming “the war to end all wars.” That was, of course, a possible nuclear conflagration and that was the war he never stopped covering until his death. I’m also reposting this piece because he was celebrating a book of which we at TomDispatch are particularly proud: Kill Anything That Moves by TD Managing Editor Nick Turse. Decades after Jonathan left Vietnam, Nick stepped through “the gates of hell” with his own unforgettable report on the carnage of the American war there. Signed, personalized copies of Nick’s book are still available at theTomDispatch donation page in return for a contribution of $100 (or more), as are Anand Gopal’s No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes and Todd Miller’s Border Patrol Nation. Tom]
Forty-six years ago, in January 1966, Jonathan Schell, a 23-year-old not-quite-journalist found himself at the farming village of Ben Suc, 30 miles from the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon. It had long been supportive of the Vietcong. Now, in what was dubbed Operation Cedar Falls, the U.S. military (with Schell in tow) launched an operation to solve that problem. The “solution” was typical of how Americans fought the Vietnam War. All the village’s 3,500 inhabitants were to be removed to a squalid refugee camp and Ben Suc itself simply obliterated -- every trace of the place for all time. Schell’s remarkable and remarkably blunt observations on this grim operation were, no less remarkably, published in the New Yorker magazine and then as a book, causing a stir in a country where anti-war sentiment was growing fast.
In 1967, Schell returned to Vietnam and spent weeks in the northern part of the country watching from the backseats of tiny U.S. forward air control planes as parts of two provinces were quite literally blown away, house by house, village by village, an experience he recalls in today’s TomDispatch post. From that came another New Yorker piece and then a book, The Military Half, which offered (and still offers) an unmatched journalistic vision of what the Vietnam War looked like. It was a moment well captured in a mocking song one of the American pilots sang for him after an operation in which he had called in bombs on two Vietnamese churches, but somehow missed the white flag flying in front of them. The relevant stanza went:
“Strafe the town and kill the people,
Drop napalm in the square,
Get out early every Sunday
And catch them at their morning prayer.”
If Afghanistan is the war we somehow haven’t managed to notice most of the time, even while it’s going on, Vietnam was the war Americans couldn’t forget and have never been able to kick, possibly because we never managed to come to grips with just what it was and what we did there. Now, so many years later, in a monumental essay appearing in print in the Nation magazine and online here at TomDispatch, Schell returns (via Nick Turse’s new book, Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam) to the haunted terrain he last visited so many decades ago. All of us, whether we know it or not, still live with the ghosts of that moment. Tom
“Strafe the town and kill the people,
Drop napalm in the square,
Get out early every Sunday
And catch them at their morning prayer.”
the last piece Jonathan Schell wrote for this site, as well as for the Nation magazine, before his death on March 25th. In his final act at TomDispatch, he offered a reminder that he was one of the great war correspondents of our time. (Just pick up The Village of Ben Suc and The Military Half, his two famed New Yorker reports on the Vietnam War, for confirmation of this.) Though people normally think of him as being a war correspondent only in his earliest journalistic years, to my mind he remained one all his life. With his third book, The Time of Illusion, however, he began to turn his attention to the most devastating war of all, the one that could never be fought without truly becoming “the war to end all wars.” That was, of course, a possible nuclear conflagration and that was the war he never stopped covering until his death. I’m also reposting this piece because he was celebrating a book of which we at TomDispatch are particularly proud: Kill Anything That Moves by TD Managing Editor Nick Turse. Decades after Jonathan left Vietnam, Nick stepped through “the gates of hell” with his own unforgettable report on the carnage of the American war there. Signed, personalized copies of Nick’s book are still available at theTomDispatch donation page in return for a contribution of $100 (or more), as are Anand Gopal’s No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes and Todd Miller’s Border Patrol Nation. Tom]
Forty-six years ago, in January 1966, Jonathan Schell, a 23-year-old not-quite-journalist found himself at the farming village of Ben Suc, 30 miles from the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon. It had long been supportive of the Vietcong. Now, in what was dubbed Operation Cedar Falls, the U.S. military (with Schell in tow) launched an operation to solve that problem. The “solution” was typical of how Americans fought the Vietnam War. All the village’s 3,500 inhabitants were to be removed to a squalid refugee camp and Ben Suc itself simply obliterated -- every trace of the place for all time. Schell’s remarkable and remarkably blunt observations on this grim operation were, no less remarkably, published in the New Yorker magazine and then as a book, causing a stir in a country where anti-war sentiment was growing fast.
In 1967, Schell returned to Vietnam and spent weeks in the northern part of the country watching from the backseats of tiny U.S. forward air control planes as parts of two provinces were quite literally blown away, house by house, village by village, an experience he recalls in today’s TomDispatch post. From that came another New Yorker piece and then a book, The Military Half, which offered (and still offers) an unmatched journalistic vision of what the Vietnam War looked like. It was a moment well captured in a mocking song one of the American pilots sang for him after an operation in which he had called in bombs on two Vietnamese churches, but somehow missed the white flag flying in front of them. The relevant stanza went:
“Strafe the town and kill the people,
Drop napalm in the square,
Get out early every Sunday
And catch them at their morning prayer.”
If Afghanistan is the war we somehow haven’t managed to notice most of the time, even while it’s going on, Vietnam was the war Americans couldn’t forget and have never been able to kick, possibly because we never managed to come to grips with just what it was and what we did there. Now, so many years later, in a monumental essay appearing in print in the Nation magazine and online here at TomDispatch, Schell returns (via Nick Turse’s new book, Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam) to the haunted terrain he last visited so many decades ago. All of us, whether we know it or not, still live with the ghosts of that moment. Tom
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes
''Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan—and then brought the Taliban back from the dead
In a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid detail the lives of three Afghans caught in America’s war on terror. He follows a Taliban commander, who rises from scrawny teenager to leading insurgent; a US-backed warlord, who uses the American military to gain personal wealth and power; and a village housewife trapped between the two sides, who discovers the devastating cost of neutrality.
Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently. Top Taliban leaders actually tried to surrender within months of the US invasion, renouncing all political activity and submitting to the new government. Effectively, the Taliban ceased to exist—yet the Americans were unwilling to accept such a turnaround. Instead, driven by false intelligence from their allies and an unyielding mandate to fight terrorism, American forces continued to press the conflict, resurrecting the insurgency that persists to this day.
With its intimate accounts of life in war-torn Afghanistan, Gopal’s thoroughly original reporting lays bare the workings of America’s longest war and the truth behind its prolonged agony. A heartbreaking story of mistakes and misdeeds, No Good Men Among the Living challenges our usual perceptions of the Afghan conflict, its victims, and its supposed winners.''
''Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan—and then brought the Taliban back from the dead
In a breathtaking chronicle, acclaimed journalist Anand Gopal traces in vivid detail the lives of three Afghans caught in America’s war on terror. He follows a Taliban commander, who rises from scrawny teenager to leading insurgent; a US-backed warlord, who uses the American military to gain personal wealth and power; and a village housewife trapped between the two sides, who discovers the devastating cost of neutrality.
Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently. Top Taliban leaders actually tried to surrender within months of the US invasion, renouncing all political activity and submitting to the new government. Effectively, the Taliban ceased to exist—yet the Americans were unwilling to accept such a turnaround. Instead, driven by false intelligence from their allies and an unyielding mandate to fight terrorism, American forces continued to press the conflict, resurrecting the insurgency that persists to this day.
With its intimate accounts of life in war-torn Afghanistan, Gopal’s thoroughly original reporting lays bare the workings of America’s longest war and the truth behind its prolonged agony. A heartbreaking story of mistakes and misdeeds, No Good Men Among the Living challenges our usual perceptions of the Afghan conflict, its victims, and its supposed winners.''
Look in the mirror and recognize who you are !!
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians
The American Empire Project
Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few “bad apples.” But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese noncombatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to “kill anything that moves.”
Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded—what one soldier called “a My Lai a month.” Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.
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