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I love this woman.

Ann Wright is a retired US Army colonel who once worked for the State Department, but she was one of only 3 State Department officials to resign in protest of the Iraq War. She has been on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla before aboard the Challenger 1.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Wright

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Che Guevara by Noriyoshi Ohrai (1964)

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don’t know if anyone lurks but if anyone's interested this is the version without the orange tinge; think it brings out the details a bit more (little bit regretful)

+ thank you to all the reblogs and comments, super duper grateful to y'all^⁠_⁠^

contributing to the gen kill fan art industrial complex; been wanting to draw them for a while, hope i was able to do them justice :⁠^⁠)

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"Democrats wouldn't have bombed iran" ah awesome I was looking for some drugs hey man lemme get a couple hits dw I'm not a cop man bro cmon

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Hitting a whole new plane of unemployed Trying to understand herbert marcuse at 1 am. good riddance

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the worlds most principled liberal cant even manage anti-monarchy

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i think the parallels are rather obvious. if we've universally agreed that the justifications for the iraq war were bullshit, then we should properly recognise the same narratives being used against iran are bullshit too.

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Netanyahu's Iran nuclear bomb claim timeline: 1992-present.

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(via speelberg, pauvremelodynelson-blog)

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i'm aware there are folks on the left who have an incredibly harsh and critical position on veterans, especially towards those who do not reflect or admit their complicity in the imperialist project of their countries. and at first i felt it was a position too unsympathetic and unjustified, considering those who voluntarily enlisted, lets say, post-9/11, were most likely preyed upon or ideologically/economically motivated to do so. in some sense, i saw them too, as victims of imperialism (which i still hold to be true)

it's their criticism on what was being prioritised that eventually led me to agree with their asperity: acknowledging the feelings of the troops and saying 'a million iraqis died' feels (and is) redundant and disrespectful, given they are the ones who bore the brunt and horror of bush's war. you would not first prioritise the feelings of an ss officer in charge of an extermination camp as a "victim" of his regime, when it's those under him that suffer as a result of his position in said regime.

in the end, the question still remains: what good does your shame, your remorse, your trauma do for the victims who will never return?

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Oz is a serious show

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thoughts on season 3, ep. 5 ...

beecher's gotten revenge on vern in every manner possible but this one is different: to take in his son and to get him clean, to act as the father figure andrew never got. essentially, compassion and mercy as a form of revenge in the context of his history with vern (and knowing what he cares about) is pretty cruel in its own way; it's the most authentic-to-beecher revenge he could instigate and evidently it pissed schillinger off enough to show his true colours and well, y'know. it's ambiguous whether he intended for it to end the way it did (i'd like to think not, but his reaction and keller's comment says otherwise). i think what's getting to me is the genius of the plan and the ambiguity of its intentions. gosh, tom fantana!!!!!!

also, the quip he throws at the end: "and o'reilly's been talking about a three-way with cyril and andy" what a menace lol

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Feminism that treats men as natural enemies rather than as products of an oppressive socialization does not seek to end patriarchy – it merely seeks emotional comfort in victimization. It is easier to point fingers and say “men are just like that” than to admit that change requires collective effort, reeducation, and yes, their participation in overcoming this system. This kind of essentialist discourse not only reinforces useless divisions but also throws away any real possibility of transformation. Perhaps this feminism doesn’t even want a world without patriarchy, because that would mean letting go of the simplistic narrative of “bad men vs. good women” and facing the fact that liberation requires much more than just likes on angry tweets.

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every time i open the gen kill tag I get confronted with the very vivid, looping image of alexander skarsgard's bare ass. Not complaining, Just saying ...

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Iraq in Fragments 

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“My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.”

— Nathaniel Fick on Colbert’s perspective during OIF. (X)