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Released 60 years ago this week, Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” still resonates today, writes Noah Berlatsky. Although the film’s Cold War origins have long elapsed, the violence and incompetence of US governance and culture persists in international conflict, fights for presidential power and environmental catastrophes.
The world is experiencing historic debt levels, incompetent &ineffective leadership, insatiable big corporate greed and bellicose actionsfrom autocratic countries. Because of the multitude of uncontrolled unfoldingglobal crisis, nationalism is thriving fueled by the perceived or actual threatof encirclement. For this reason these simultaneous and interconnected crisis arecreating the inevitability of
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
The men who reinvented warfare Malcolm Gladwell’s new book The Bomber Mafia and the visionaries who wanted to make conflict “clean”. When Curtis LeMay was five years old, standing in his family’s backyard in Columbus, Ohio, in about 1912, the future Air Force general saw his first aeroplane. He would recall in his memoir: “Suddenly, in the air above me, appeared a flying machine. It came from nowhere. There it was, and I wanted to catch it.” The boy was enchanted by the “wonderful sound and force and the freakish illusion of the Thing”. He chased it down the street, and wh...