Tag: Iraq
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Know Your History Part 4: Bushwhacked
Thanks to Boris B a bit of important cutup/mashup history has been now added to the Bootleg Archive one of the first political mashup compilations, 2004’s Bushwhacked against Bush and the Iraq war. I recently added Twinkleboi who put this together to the Archive and asked him if he still had it – he said…
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Quran vs Bible
This has been doing the rounds but I think it’s worth repeating here. I’ve heard a lot of crap about the Quran being ‘violent’ and Islam being the religion of violence from supposed Christians, people that like a lot of Muslims (including funnily those foot soldiers in Iraq and ISIL/Daesh) don’t know their own books.…
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The Long Peace?
Interesting video/infographic detailing how many people died in World War 2 – very important to revisit this from time to time, lest we forget. I think people feel scared of ISIS, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc – but it is comforting to think these are tiny battles compared to what has gone before. I don’t think we…
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Fly WBC to Iraq
Yup, Adam Hills is correct, he should Kickstarter that shit, I’d chip in some money to fly the Phelps and co. to currently IS occupied territory in Iraq. See how well their nasty evangelising goes down with those beheading Christians – they might agree on the God Hates Fags question, but not with a tiny…
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Who can you trust? The Police and state propaganda war
A very strange (long) weekend, a good one for royalists, bad one for anarchists and the Met Police, and complete headache for Osama Bin Laden (it’s OK, he went for a US government sanctioned swim :-P). No link between those? Well in all three events the media has been used and spun to either pre-convict…