ca. 5 mins. Members of the renowned French-Canadian unit, the Van Doos*, go on foot patrol in an Afghan village. One of my buddies was definitely part of this. (*=from a rough English pronunciation... continue reading

posted by calvados 1 decade 5 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 1,283 views

Short, funny, and insightful video on how we went from Barney Fife to Stormtroopers.

posted by EndAll 1 decade 5 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 3,850 views

Why won't the current Administration end it already?!

posted by blankfist 1 decade 5 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 1,407 views

911 Accountability - An American war veteran brakes it down for you. This kid is a great speaker - Listen to his experience!

posted by Sagemind 1 decade 5 years 2 months 1 week ago • 7,690 views

A revival of interest in Henry Kissinger came during the new millennium, when journalist Christopher Hitchens wrote The Trial of Henry Kissinger, a scathing critique of Kissinger's policy that accused... continue reading

posted by Farhad2000 1 decade 7 years 9 months ago • 2,798 views • 21:07

Directed by Josh Rushing, a veteran Marine Corps media spokesman, "SPIN: The Art of Selling War" is an investigative documentary that looks at the standard justification for going to war by the American... continue reading

posted by bl968 1 decade 7 years 7 months ago • 2,244 views

See the article being referred to: How the US Funds the Taliban by Aram Roston

posted by EndAll 1 decade 5 years 1 month 1 week ago • 963 views

Wait for it... A brilliant visualization of the four great european maritime empires' evolution from 1800 until today, using soft bodies.

posted by Ornthoron 1 decade 5 years 1 month ago • 3,722 views

I think there's a lot of nonsense talk about keeping America safe and the "virus of terrorism". I think we should look at the other side of the coin as well. There's more truth in this John Pilger clip... continue reading

posted by schmawy 1 decade 5 years 2 weeks ago • 2,637 views

Giving context to the US-Iran relationship, which is of heighten importance now, in light of recent unrest and popular uprising in Iran. Lesson for US, stay out of it! Don't meddle with the uprising... continue reading

posted by theali 1 decade 4 years 12 months ago • 5,618 views

This is a nerdy, yet highly interesting speech held at 2009's meeting of the Chaos Computer Club (a by now quite popular "hacker"-convention held in Berlin/Germany). Endure the geekism, there's some highly... continue reading

Eager to see what the UN and Liberian government are actually doing, VBS meets up with a local journalist who plops us down in the center of West Point, the worst slum in Liberia. Without any modern plumbing,... continue reading

posted by geo321 1 decade 4 years 11 months ago • 3,170 views • 6:35

Drone controllers control their vehicles from Nevada, flying them in Afghanistan and Iraq. The title isn't related to the actual Modern Warfare game, but when they say war is becoming a video game,... continue reading

posted by demon_ix 1 decade 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 4,980 views

From YT - "Wikileaks has obtained and decrypted this previously unreleased video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007. It shows Reuters journalist Namir Noor-Eldeen, driver Saeed Chmagh, and several... continue reading

posted by Throbbin 1 decade 4 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 15,029 views

Admission comes at 2:02: "What essentially sets a Nation-State apart which is the monopoly on violence." I don't know what's up with the sounds of someone throwing documents into the trash and emptying... continue reading

posted by blankfist 1 decade 4 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 3,387 views

In parts, on YT. Embedded playlist to follow.

posted by calvados 1 decade 4 years 8 months ago • 1,172 views

Bougainville, with a populations of only 160,000 has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest mines in the world. They have held their ground for a decade with antique weapons and homemade guns.... continue reading

posted by JesseoftheNorth 1 decade 4 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 1,563 views

Former FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan explains how to make a terrorist cry. Not what most people might think.

posted by CaptWillard 1 decade 6 years 10 months ago • 9,279 views • 4:38

Empire or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn't Teach Me about the American Empire by Howard Zinn Narrated by Viggo Mortensen Art by Mike Konopacki Video editing by Eric Wold To read more from Howard... continue reading

posted by siftbot 1 decade 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 12,783 views