Category: War & Peace
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Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War, by Alan N. Shapiro
“Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War” by Alan N. Shapiro (full text is at the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies) Unlike other thinkers such as Noam Chomsky or Chris Hedges (whose positions are highly valuable in their own right), Jean Baudrillard is not ‘against war’. Baudrillard’s position…
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General Patton Memorial Museum
General Patton Memorial Museum 62-510 Chiriaco Road, Chiriaco Summit, California 92201 “A Military History Museum With Exhibits from World War I through the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars And our Tank Yard with Armored Vehicles from World War II through Vietnam” In spite of the above self-description written by the museum itself, I felt that the…
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Europe at War in Serbia and Kosovo, by Alan N. Shapiro
On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization initiated a bombing campaign from 15,000 feet vectored towards designated targets inside the territory of Yugoslavia. NATO’s spokesmen stated that the systematic aerial assaults were a response to brutalities being carried out on the ground by Serb military and para-military forces against the ethnic Albanian majority.