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John Dolan (writer)
John Carroll Dolan (born July 1955) is an American poet, author and essayist.Profile New Zealand Book Council; retrieved August 4, 2017. He has been identified as the once-secret identity behind the pseudonym Gary Brecher, fictional author of the War Nerd column for the newspaper '' the eXile'' which has ceased publication. John Dolan writes as the War Nerd, but no longer "in full character"Gary Brecher "The War Nerd: Escape From East Timor (Part One)" pando.com, May 3, 2015; retrieved August 4, 2017. as Brecher, the two identities having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Ames
Mark Ames (born October 3, 1965) is a Brooklyn-based American journalist. He was the editor of the biweekly ''the eXile'' in Moscow, from its founding in 1997 until its closure in 2008. Ames has also written for the ''New York Press'', ''PandoDaily'', ''The Nation'', ''Playboy'', '' The San Jose Mercury News'', ''Alternet'', ''Птюч Connection'', '' GQ'' (Russian edition), and is the author of three books. He co-hosts the podcast ''Radio War Nerd'' along with John Dolan. Biography Ames was raised in Saratoga, California, where he attended an Episcopalian private school. Ames is Jewish. He graduated from Saratoga High School in 1983. He later wrote about a 2003 alleged bombing attempt at his alma mater in ''Going Postal—Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond''. After leaving Saratoga, Ames attended the University of California, Berkeley, while living with his father (his parents divorced when Ames was eight years old). He late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The EXile
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buffalo Beast
''The Beast'' was a Buffalo, New York alternative biweekly print newspaper published from 2002 until 2009 and then exclusively online until about 2013. ''The Beast'' was founded by Matt Taibbi, Kevin McElwee, and Paul Fallon in 2002. (Taibbi and McElwee had previously collaborated on ''The eXile''.) ("About Us" section at bottom left) It was originally a free biweekly newspaper. It's first contributing writer was Ken Barnes. In 2007 the publication began to charge for issues as a national monthly publication that also offered international subscriptions. In late 2009, ''The Beast'' stopped producing print editions but maintained an online presence with the tagline: "The World's Only Website." The Beast's longest-serving editor was Allan Uthman. An annual feature of ''The Beast'' was "The 50 Most Loathsome Americans" - a list of infamous celebrities, authors, athletes, pundits, politicians, and others selected for their dubious distinction, with reasons and examples given for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American commentator, classicist, and military historian. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for ''The New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ''National Review'', ''The Washington Times'' and other media outlets. He is a professor emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in classics and military history at the conservative Hoover Institution, and visiting professor at Hillsdale College. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and was a presidential appointee in 2007–2008 on the American Battle Monuments Commission. Early life, education and today Hanson, a Protestant who is of Swedish and Welsh descent, grew up on his grandfather's raisin farm outside Selma, California in the San Joaquin Valley, and has worked there most of his life. His mother, Pauline Davis Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antiwar
An anti-war movement (also ''antiwar'') is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause. The term anti-war can also refer to pacifism, which is the opposition to all use of military force during conflicts, or to anti-war books, paintings, and other works of art. Some activists distinguish between anti-war movements and peace movements. Anti-war activists work through protest and other grassroots means to attempt to pressure a government (or governments) to put an end to a particular war or conflict or to prevent it in advance. History American Revolutionary War Substantial opposition to British war intervention in America led the British House of Commons on 27 February 1783 to vote against further war in America, paving the way for the Second Rockingham ministry and the Peace of Paris. Antebellum United States Substantial antiwar sentiment developed in the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Horton (activist)
Scott Horton is an American radio host and author. Career Horton hosts ''Antiwar Radio'' for Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, as well as the podcast ''The Scott Horton Show.'' Horton has conducted over 5,000 interviews since 2003. He is also the director of the Libertarian Institute. Horton is the editorial director of the non-interventionist news portal Antiwar.com. He was previously the host of ''Say It Ain't So'' on Free Radio Austin 97.1 FM, the ''Weekend Interview Show'' and the KAOS Report on Radio KAOS 95.9 FM, for which he won ''The Austin Chronicle''s Best of Austin award in 2007 for "Best Iraq War Coverage". Horton's book ''Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan'' (2017) is an account of the War in Afghanistan since 2001, which argues that the United States should end its presence in the country. ''The American Conservative'' described the work as a "masterful account of America’s prolonged Afghan engagement." In 2019, Horton edited and pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia City Paper
''Philadelphia City Paper'' was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The independently owned paper was free and published every Thursday in print and daily online at citypaper.net. Staff reporters focused on labor issues, politics, education and poverty. Critics reviewed the city's arts, entertainment, literary and restaurant scene. Listings of concerts, art exhibits, dance performances and other events were carried in the paper and in a comprehensive online events calendar. The publication was established in November 1981 as a spinoff of the now-defunct WXPN Express newsletter. ''Philadelphia City Paper'' distributed 70,000 copies in more than 2,000 locations throughout Philadelphia, its suburbs and South Jersey. Its more than 2,000 orange-colored boxes and wire racks were found in Center City Philadelphia in cafes, small businesses and on many university campuses. Each year, ''City Paper'' published a City Guide for college students and new residen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UC Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 31,800 undergraduate and 13,200 graduate students. Berkeley ranks among the world's top universities. A founding member of the Association of American Universities, Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes dedicated to science, engineering, and mathematics. The university founded and maintains close relationships with three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, national laboratories at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane's Defence Review
''Jane's International Defence Review'' (''IDR'') is a monthly magazine reporting on military news and technology. History and profile ''International Defense Review'' was established in 1968. It was published by Interavia SA (Geneva, Switzerland) until it was acquired by Jane's Publishing Group in 1987. According to one entry in WorldCat, the name of the magazine was ''International Defense Review'', but another WorldCat entry states that the name was ''International Defence Review'' from 1968 until 1995. Yet another WorldCat entry states that the title is ''IHS Jane's International Defence Review'' after 2012. The ''IDR'' is one of a number of military-related publications named after Fred T. Jane, an Englishman who first published '' Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships'' in 1898. It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which was acquired by IHS Inc. in 2007. The magazine provides in-depth coverage and analysis of air, land and sea platforms and systems, and regularly fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beast (newspaper)
''The Beast'' was a Buffalo, New York alternative biweekly print newspaper published from 2002 until 2009 and then exclusively online until about 2013. ''The Beast'' was founded by Matt Taibbi, Kevin McElwee, and Paul Fallon in 2002. (Taibbi and McElwee had previously collaborated on ''The eXile''.) ("About Us" section at bottom left) It was originally a free biweekly newspaper. It's first contributing writer was Ken Barnes. In 2007 the publication began to charge for issues as a national monthly publication that also offered international subscriptions. In late 2009, ''The Beast'' stopped producing print editions but maintained an online presence with the tagline: "The World's Only Website." The Beast's longest-serving editor was Allan Uthman. An annual feature of ''The Beast'' was "The 50 Most Loathsome Americans" - a list of infamous celebrities, authors, athletes, pundits, politicians, and others selected for their dubious distinction, with reasons and examples given for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNUR
WNUR-FM (89.3 FM) is a 7,200–watt radio station based in Evanston, Illinois that broadcasts to Chicago and its northern suburbs. It is the student radio station of Northwestern University. History WNUR first began broadcasting on May 8, 1948. It originally operated from a 10-watt transmitter that reached into portions of Skokie and Chicago. Between 1982 and 1995, WNUR's slogan was "The New Music FM". Since 1995—the same year the station moved into new facilities in Northwestern's Annie May Swift Hall—WNUR's slogan has been "Chicago's Sound Experiment". (The station had previously broadcast from older facilities in the basement of the same building). In March 2007, WNUR began broadcasting from studios in John J. Louis Hall on Northwestern's Evanston Campus. On-air programming WNUR programming over the years has included ''Airplay'' (a weekly program dedicated to local Chicago music), free-form experimental audio collage programming, weekly live radio comedies, and wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Brecher
John Carroll Dolan (born July 1955) is an American poet, author and essayist.Profile New Zealand Book Council; retrieved August 4, 2017. He has been identified as the once-secret identity behind the pseudonym Gary Brecher, fictional author of the War Nerd column for the newspaper '''' which has ceased publication. John Dolan writes as the War Nerd, but no longer "in full character"Gary Brecher "The War Nerd: Escape From East Timor (Part One)" pando.com, May 3, 2015; retrieved August 4, 2017. as B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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