When I read certain passages of his columns I get the same feelings I used to get when I heard certain rappers pop up for a guest verse and just slay the shyt out of a track...
Just sitting there like
I gotta bring that back one more time, did he just say...? Damn, he went the fukk in!
I know he's too critical of Obama for most supposed liberals, and he lapses into a romantic brand of cynicism at times, but this dude is by far the most brilliant, informed, experienced, credentialed, dude writing about politics, imperialism and foreign policy, war, and American culture out there. The way he contextualizes shyt, the natural way he can shift from casual to aggressive to poignant to somber to passionate in any given piece he writes...
An excerpt from his most recent column:
I am not sure when I severed myself irrevocably from the myth of America. It began when I was a seminarian, living for more than two years in Bostons inner city on a street that had more homicides than any other in the city. I had to confront in the public housing projects the cruelty of white supremacy, the myriad institutional mechanisms that kept poor people of color trapped, broken and impoverished, the tragic squandering of young lives and the fatuous liberals who spoke in lofty language about empowering people they never met. The ties unraveled further during the five years I spent as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Nicaragua. I stood in too many mud-walled villages looking at the mutilated bodies of men, women and children, murdered by U.S.-backed soldiers, death squads and paramilitary units. I heard too many lies spewed out by Ronald Reagan and the State Department to justify these killings. And by the time I was in Gaza, looking at the twisted limbs of dead women and children and listening to Israeli and U.S. officials describe an Israeli airstrike as a surgical hit on Islamic militants, it was over. I knew the dark heart of America. I knew who we were, what we did, what we actually stood for and the terrifying and willful innocence that permits most Americans to think of themselves as good and virtuous when they are, in reality, members of an efficient race of killers and ruthless profiteers.
Just sitting there like
I gotta bring that back one more time, did he just say...? Damn, he went the fukk in!I know he's too critical of Obama for most supposed liberals, and he lapses into a romantic brand of cynicism at times, but this dude is by far the most brilliant, informed, experienced, credentialed, dude writing about politics, imperialism and foreign policy, war, and American culture out there. The way he contextualizes shyt, the natural way he can shift from casual to aggressive to poignant to somber to passionate in any given piece he writes...
An excerpt from his most recent column:
I am not sure when I severed myself irrevocably from the myth of America. It began when I was a seminarian, living for more than two years in Bostons inner city on a street that had more homicides than any other in the city. I had to confront in the public housing projects the cruelty of white supremacy, the myriad institutional mechanisms that kept poor people of color trapped, broken and impoverished, the tragic squandering of young lives and the fatuous liberals who spoke in lofty language about empowering people they never met. The ties unraveled further during the five years I spent as a war correspondent in El Salvador and Nicaragua. I stood in too many mud-walled villages looking at the mutilated bodies of men, women and children, murdered by U.S.-backed soldiers, death squads and paramilitary units. I heard too many lies spewed out by Ronald Reagan and the State Department to justify these killings. And by the time I was in Gaza, looking at the twisted limbs of dead women and children and listening to Israeli and U.S. officials describe an Israeli airstrike as a surgical hit on Islamic militants, it was over. I knew the dark heart of America. I knew who we were, what we did, what we actually stood for and the terrifying and willful innocence that permits most Americans to think of themselves as good and virtuous when they are, in reality, members of an efficient race of killers and ruthless profiteers.
at that hack Friedman being mentioned in the same thread as Hedges and Chomsky, even to mock him.