The BBC's Quentin Sommerville spent a month with revolutionary forces at jungle bases and on front lines in Myanmar....Two loudspeakers, as big as the men carrying them, are brought to the rocky hilltop. Some 800m below, in the town of Hpasang, lies a sprawling Myanmar army base....
I have seen so much hype for this movie and to me.. meh... I mean it was interesting to see what someone thought a civil war "could" look like. But too unrealistic and... worth the watch? Maybe if you didn't expect much. #civilwar
Easily the most accessible of Garland's work since The Beach. Intense stuff and doubly so when you accept that Trump would probably let this happen. Also, THAT bit? Ooft! 😲
#CivilWar to dramat psychologiczny przebrany za film wojenny. Widziałem, jak ktoś śmiał się z pokazanej w zwiastunie mapy, w której linie frontu przebiegały wzdłuż granic stanowych – otóż tło polityczne jest w tym dziele jedynie odległym pretekstem i nie należy przywiązywać do niego uwagi, gdyby ktoś chciał mojej rady przed seansem.
After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
#WarOfndependence that began in 1947 was first a #civilWar between #Arabs and #Jews in #Palestine, and then a multi-state war… from at least five sovereign countries—#Egypt, #Transjordan, #Syria, #Iraq, and #Israel—as well as small contingents from others. It was a war fought village by village and town by town, and it resulted in massive population displacements on both sides.
No Jews remained anywhere in parts of Palestine that fell under #Arab control
A generation after 1967, the #SecondIntifada involved no armies on distant fronts. There was a campaign of #terrorist attacks against #Israeli civilians… together with a campaign of #suicideBombings in Israeli cities.
In the #WestBank it looked less like either a #civilWar or a conventional war and more like an #asymmetricWar or a #counterinsurgency campaign by an occupying army that took years to settle down into a victory on the Israeli side.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity are occurring in El Geneina, Sudan. The events are labeled as “among the worst atrocities against civilians so far in the current conflict in Sudan.”...
I don't understand the weird #civilwar fantasies apparently consuming the #MAGA right. Who, exactly, do the imagine they'll be at war with? And what, exactly, will they be fighting for? Do they think it will be the dumbshit conservatives vs. the Democrats and liberals? I picture a bunch of red necks climbing into their lifted pickups and assembling on some field for war. It's this weird, mastrubatory fantasy where they're all highly trained special operators.
Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation. People have been forced to consume “grass and peanut shells,” the regional director for Eastern Africa of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “If assistance...
I wish I hadn't seen Alex Garland being a centrist shithead in interviews about this, because I liked it quite a bit
Not an apolitical movie, but a focused on the role of press and media. I wish it had gotten into the war motives more explicitly but it felt a conscious choice to explore imagery and the press. Not subtle about who's who in the war, anyway
Feature: Myanmar: Young insurgents changing the course of a forgotten war (www.bbc.com)
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville spent a month with revolutionary forces at jungle bases and on front lines in Myanmar....Two loudspeakers, as big as the men carrying them, are brought to the rocky hilltop. Some 800m below, in the town of Hpasang, lies a sprawling Myanmar army base....
Crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing occurring against the Massalit in West Darfur: Human Rights Watch (www.jurist.org)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Thursday that ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity are occurring in El Geneina, Sudan. The events are labeled as “among the worst atrocities against civilians so far in the current conflict in Sudan.”...
People eating ‘grass and peanut shells’ in Darfur, UN says, as hunger crisis engulfs war-ravaged Sudan (edition.cnn.com)
Time is running out to prevent starvation in Darfur, in western Sudan, a UN agency has warned, as escalating violence devastates the African nation. People have been forced to consume “grass and peanut shells,” the regional director for Eastern Africa of the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “If assistance...