Japan's Surprisingly Large Military
On paper, Japan is no longer a military power. Article 9 of the Japanese constitution states that “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of ...
10 Touko 201938min
Romanticizing History Can Be Worse Than Repeating It
The cliche goes that those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. But history is more than just a memory and a lesson, sometimes it’s a tool and a weapon. Some pundits are concerned that his...
3 Touko 201935min
Can Psychonauts Win America’s Wars?
Drugs and war go together like peanut butter and jelly. American soldier boys smoked the reefer in Vietnam, the Wehrmacht ran on amphetamine, and Viking Berserkers were probably on something. Soldiers...
26 Huhti 201949min
How A Legendary Black Samurai Became an Anti-Imperialist Icon
It’s a story some of you may know, it’s been told over and over in different forms. A gaijin, an outsider, comes to Japan and ingratiates themselves with the local military power. From James Clavell’s...
19 Huhti 201934min
ICYMI: Inside the Occult Neo-Nazis Killing People in America
From the Silver Legion to the Aryan Nation, the U.S. has had its share of fascist organizations but its never had anything quite like Atomwaffen Division. Grown and organized online, the group has bee...
12 Huhti 201928min
The History of Preparing for Nuclear War
Civil Defense! From the dawn of World War II and throughout the 1960s, America had a plan to keep its civilians safe and fit to fight in case of invasion or, god forbid, nuclear armageddon. From duck ...
5 Huhti 201953min
The Era of Shitposting White Nationalist Terrorism
On March 15, a shooter entered two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. He killed fifty and injured 50 more. He left behind a bizarre and meme-laden manifesto. In February, authorities arrested a Coa...
30 Maalis 20191h 26min
The War In America's Backyard
America is at war across the world, but it’s also at war at home. For decades, violent crime has been at record lows across the country—but that’s slowly changing as cities such as Baltimore, Chicago,...
22 Maalis 201944min
