Gunar Olsen

@GunarOlsen

Journalist/writer, or something. Bylines . Former intern. Cofounder .

New York, NY
Έγινε μέλος την περίοδο Ιούλιος 2010

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    5 Ιουλ

    My first piece for : I went to conference & spoke to several historians who protested SHAFR’s decision to invite David Petraeus to give the keynote address.

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  2. πριν από 14 ώρες

    The extent to which liberal groups speak out against US war is limited to hand-wringing over how humanely the war is conducted—not to be mistaken for opposition to the war itself. Great reporting by in

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  3. 23 Δεκ

    The Cold War was a "a redistribution of violence, so that the great powers saw proportionately less of it and the weaker states proportionately more." —Daniel Immerwahr in on Paul Thomas Chamerlin's book-length rebuttal of the "long peace"

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  4. 22 Δεκ

    In my⁩ Q&A w ⁦⁩, he explained that the war in Yemen is about “maximizing the return from the scramble for the last bits of liquidity in the world” and “undermining the capacity of the people’s ability to resist.“ Read the rest⁩ here:

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    21 Δεκ

    Hillary Clinton May be impressively plastic in many respects but her belief in the Forever War, which she has been so instrumental in starting and restarting, is 110% authentic

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  6. 21 Δεκ
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  7. 21 Δεκ

    The war in Yemen is not a civil or proxy war. It‘s “a century-long campaign to subordinate and integrate it into an increasingly intertwined system known as globalization or neoliberal global economy.” My Q&A with ⁦⁩ in ⁦⁩:

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    20 Δεκ

    “The 45 years of peace between the Cold War’s superpowers were also 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.” Daniel Immerwahr in on a new history of the Cold War

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    20 Δεκ

    "The 45 years of peace between the Cold War's superpowers that Gaddis praised were also 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world." Daniel Immerwahr on Paul Chamberlin's bracing book, The Cold War's Killing Fields, in :

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    20 Δεκ

    For most of humanity, the heyday of the "liberal international order" looks more like this map of mass conflicts in which the superpowers made their mark:

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  11. 20 Δεκ

    Really enjoyed Salim Yaqub’s classic book on how the Eisenhower Doctrine was designed not only to protect the Middle East from Soviet encroachment, but also to contain Nasser’s radical Arab nationalism by strengthening the pro-Western tendencies of the conservative Arab states.

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    18 Δεκ

    For , I wrote about white liberal guilt, class voyeurism, and the parallels between 's Y Tu Mamá También and ROMA

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    17 Δεκ
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    16 Δεκ

    20 yrs ago today on December 16, 1998 Pres. Bill Clinton launched Operation Desert Fox, an illegal, unjustified military attack on Iraq in which the US attacked 100 targets with cruise missiles. I there in the middle of the bombing to witness its effects. Here's my story 1/

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    15 Δεκ

    The US sells nearly 60% of the world’s weapons. There is hardly a conflict on earth where US weapons makers aren’t profiting from the deaths of innocents. Any truly progressive foreign policy must take as a starting point a dramatic reduction of US military sales and assistance.

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    13 Δεκ

    New from me in : Today's historic Yemen vote, with Khashoggi as its catalyst, offers an important lesson for the left's foreign policy: The outrage of a well-informed public can constrain our leaders' worst impulses

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    12 Δεκ

    Must-buy! During the Cold War, the US attempted 69 different regime changes. Only 6 were overt (using military force), while 63 were covert (assassinating leaders, sponsoring coups, manipulating electoral results, or covertly aiding dissidents).

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  19. 12 Δεκ

    The dominant narrative that Obama "failed to intervene" in Syria gets the story all wrong, drastically obscuring how responsible the CIA's arm-and-equip program was for ultimately escalating the conflict. gets it right in :

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  20. 11 Δεκ

    I added a page on my website to keep track of the times I’ve asked powerful people difficult questions in public. Despite the page’s title, I don’t like self congratulation. But I do like making lists & keeping track of things, so this is what that’s about

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    11 Δεκ

    Saudi Arabia is an over-indulged client state, not a strategic ally, and cutting off the arms supply to that ghastly despotism won’t make any appreciable difference in the daily life of 99% of Americans

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