Chalmers Johnson writes in TPMmuckraker today:

History is instructive on this dilemma. If we choose to keep our empire, as the Roman republic did, we will certainly lose our democracy and grimly await the eventual blowback that imperialism generates. There is an alternative, however. We could, like the British Empire after World War II, keep our democracy by giving up our empire. The British did not do a particularly brilliant job of liquidating their empire and there were several clear cases where British imperialists defied their nation's commitment to democracy in order to hang on to foreign privileges. The war against the Kikuyu in Kenya in the 1950s and the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956 are particularly savage examples of that. But the overall thrust of postwar British history is clear: the people of the British Isles chose democracy over imperialism.

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Batman vs alien vs predator

I used to collect comic books when I was younger. I still have an interest in comic books.

This short film is an excellent adaption of the comic book to film genre. Of course Frank Miller's "Sin City" is the pinnacle of this kind of film noir styled cinema.

The short film form fits the comic book adaption because of the nature of the characters of the revenge/avenger seem not to be amenable to serious character development or exploration.

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