
Watching the West Wing in Baghdad Green Zone w/ Yousef Baker
The East is a Podcast
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The Proletization of the American Military During the Vietnam War
The vietnam war was kind of class through the conscription whatever and there's all that. Fast forward to 2003 where you have an all volunteer military u.s military but the same class contradictions still are part of the genome of that military. You do have disproportionate sort of grunts who are from places where you teach uh mostly right who did volunteer. The U.S. is occupying Iraq legally according to the very democratic political system that the u.s was there to create so it's crazy we live in the craziest time yeah.
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