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What we got instead is a Wall Street crony and war-machine acolyte who seems content to bail water with a thimble while the Titanic continues its inevitable submersion.
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The spare, rural Texan landscape and the stripped-down post itself, surrounded by a ring of tattoo parlors and pawn shops that yield to rings of highways and chain-store sprawl, evoke the essence of military Americana: a war-machine hub bound by barbed wire, then loneliness rolling out for miles.
Set on an Army post, Fallon's tales of private pain are first-class Lily Burana 2011
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All failed to acknowledge their own moral blindness in failing to imagine what millions of their fellow Americans clearly saw: the havoc that the U.S. war-machine would inevitably wreak on innocent Iraqi civilians whatever its stated intentions or claimed benefits.
Fred Branfman: Should Christopher Hitchens Apologize to Iraqis (And U.S. Peace Marchers?) 2010
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We see the brutality of the Israeli war-machine alongside the difficulties of the average soldier, a fact helped by the principle actors who create distinct characters which we can easily follow even within the dark confines of the dark and despite the uniformity of their clothing and haircuts.
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All failed to acknowledge their own moral blindness in failing to imagine what millions of their fellow Americans clearly saw: the havoc that the U.S. war-machine would inevitably wreak on innocent Iraqi civilians whatever its stated intentions or claimed benefits.
Fred Branfman: Should Christopher Hitchens Apologize to Iraqis (And U.S. Peace Marchers?) 2010
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Obama never mentioned anything, before we 'gave him' our votes, about the ruling-elite corporate/financial imperialist war-machine, and racist tyranny of economic oppression that SDS fought against in the late 1960's --- although it has only gotten worse in the last 40 years.
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Obama never mentioned anything, before we 'gave him' our votes, about the ruling-elite corporate/financial imperialist war-machine, and racist tyranny of economic oppression that SDS fought against in the late 1960's.
America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying 2009
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Obama never mentioned anything, before we 'gave him' our votes, about the ruling-elite corporate/financial imperialist war-machine, and racist tyranny of economic oppression that SDS fought against in the late 1960's.
America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying 2009
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Still and all, even despite all the Taliban ambushes in Afghanistan, the war-machine industry still doesn't seem to be doing too well.
Ambushed by Taliban in Afghanistan & by unemployment in America 2009
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Obama never mentioned anything, before we 'gave him' our votes, about the ruling-elite corporate/financial imperialist war-machine, and racist tyranny of economic oppression that SDS fought against in the late 1960's.
America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying 2009
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