Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

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Old Wounds

October 27th, 2011 · Comments Off on Old Wounds

How long is a public expected to wait before it can see its national traumas depicted on the silver screen? Here in the U.S.A., that estimated time period seems to get shorter with each passing generation: While over a decade passed between the end of America’s involvement in Vietnam and the debut of Platoon, there […]

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The Utter Mess in New Caledonia

August 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on The Utter Mess in New Caledonia

British Prime Minister David Cameron can take some small measure of solace in the fact that his government is the only one in Europe to be vexed by violent protestors. His French counterparts are suffering through similar civil unrest, though with an asterisk: the nation’s pocket of trouble is located several thousand miles away from […]

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