By Dirk | Human Rights Activist, Policy Wonk
READ PT ONE: TREASON “It’s like a great darkness falling; it’s the beginning of forgetting.” – Marguerite Duras PART TWO: CASUALTIES For just about as long as we’ve been at war there the recent and distant history of Afghanistan has been wrapped in a cloud of myth that’s worked hard to obscure the context of
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By Dirk | Human Rights Activist, Policy Wonk
“The poison that is war does not free us from the ethics of responsibility.” – Chris Hedges PART ONE: TREASON There are one or two things ahead that your friend and humble narrator here simply avoids having to discuss, that are deflected plus joked about rather than detailed whenever they come up—but that nevertheless form
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By Dirk | Policy Wonk, Political Junkie
So at this point it would be somewhere beyond pointless to recount the details of the Shirley Sherrod story, everyone already knows them and I don’t really want to get into it anyway. I want to have my say and ask a fairly simple question about something else – something related and crucial to –
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