Word: defenselessness
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Gans died in poverty a few years later, but it would be inaccurate to list him or Peter Jackson as losers. They won the contests the white world let them fight, and died not defenseless before the world but unnecessary to it. Their affliction was not African lethargy but malignant neglect...
...forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam than we used on the Nazis. Noam Chomsky (one of the few for whom I feel no contempt) writes, "By March 1969 the total level of bombardment had reached 130,000 tons a month-nearly two Hiroshimas a week in South Vietnam and Laos, defenseless countries." "Go easy on words like genocide," Henry Kissinger told students who visited him in the White House. "It is not the policy of the United States to bomb people." From the Kennedy Subcommittee on Refugees staff report: the target of the bombardment of Laos is "the economic and social...
...SOLDIEER BLUE is just another Hollywood whore, trying to redeem itself by faking a socially-conscious heart of gold. The film opens with a Chevenne attack on a U.S. Cavalry paymaster's detail and closes with a Cavalry attack on a peaceful and defenseless Chevenne village. But it is only tangentially concerned with such affairs. The bulk of the film is given over to a kind of Western Love Story in which a hard-as-nails white woman wanders about, and eventually falls in love, with a rather silly young soldier. Candice Bergen plays the foul-mouthed girl...
...escaped the Nazi gas chambers where millions of defenseless and innocent died, urge you to protest the revival of this medieval form of witch hunt for the sake of political expediency.B-7615; GSAS '55 and 29 others
...blames this on that dark power "the Pentagon." What about the Alliance for Progress, AID, the U.S. Ambassador, United Fruit, the coffee companies, Standard Oil, and the Hanna Mining Company? Are they perhaps neutral? Oh, they might like a president with a more liberal image, but if keeping Guatemala defenseless against U.S. capital calls for a strong man like Arana, then he's get their hearty support. Goulden goes on to say that "both factions committed murders of stomach turning grisliness." Killing is pretty grisly, but so are all the babies dead of measles and malnutrition...