Mark Ames Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The audio version of Naipaul’s Miguel Street is great. A funny & melodious novel that’s meant to be heard.

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In the First Chechen War, 557 Russian officers of various ranks were disciplined, sacked or quit in protest against the war. After 1st month, the commander/senior staff of N Caucasus Military District sacked or resigned. Different times. (source: Anatol Lieven's Chechnya book)

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"Some refused to offer up information and were murdered; others gave false as well as usable information and managed to live through their ordeals. They called British interrogators 'HMTs,' or 'Her Majesty’s Torturers'" —("Legacy of Violence" by Caroline Elkins) https://t.co/ktZI7irDsz

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Just last week: "Jewish groups are condemning a parade in Latvia to celebrate members of Adolf Hitler’s SS...In 2019, Latvian Defence Minister Artis Pabriks called the SS members 'the pride of the Latvian people and of the state.'" https://t.co/NdREVjTAPx

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US intelligence screwed up just about every major event of the last 100 years. Tim Weiner wrote a famous book cataloguing CIA failures (Legacy of Ashes). Langley calls one stupid war right, and it's nonstop endzone funky chicken celebrations. https://t.co/p4zukZsC0A

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🚨🚨New Radio @TheWarNerd — great discussion with Philip Short, author of a controversial (and massive) new biography on Vladimir Putin. Subscribe! https://t.co/He4TSKU91M

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New Radio @TheWarNerd — great talk with Lyle Jeremy Rubin @rubin_lyle on his new Afghanistan war memoir Pain Is A Weakness Leaving The Body. https://t.co/PJcBaMOgb2

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"Owning the Sun is a book about information―the lifeblood of politics―and the history of how patents became controlled exclusively by and for the benefit of a few." Great review of Alexander Zaitchik's new book. https://joecostello.substack.com/p/owning-the-sun?s=r

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"Money is always a faith based system, thus William Greider titled his seminal history of the Fed, Secrets of the Temple. Like all power, money power doesn't like discussions about how and why, nor crises of faith, just acceptance and genteel reverence." https://t.co/1o2Vr4bXME

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Came across this, from Ukrainian-born Prof. Evgeny Dobrenko's introduction to Bulgakov's The White Guard, a brutal & bitter novel about Ukraine's first failed attempt at statehood 1918-1920. All these cities front-center in the news today. https://t.co/AlY9V1sGQN