Sentences with phrase «american war on terror»

It's ironic that a Chinese artist should make one of the more important political statements about the convergence of devastation, celebration, and heroism in the midst of an American war on terror.

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Glenn Greenwald, a liberal journalist who writes for the Intercept, argued that American presidents have long cast aside due process, most obviously in their handling of the War on Terror.

The man who murdered thousands of Americans and instigated the war on terror is finally gone.

The reality of a Bush presidency was however unequivocal: environmental catastrophe, irresponsible tax cuts, which benefited the wealthiest Americans disproportionately, a divisive War on Terror and bequeathed the Obama administration the worst legacy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt replaced Herbert Hoover in 1932.

The UK tends to fight the «war on terror» by proxy, by making it easy for others — usually the Americans — to carry out the dirty work, and reap the rewards while maintaining the façade of a rights - respecting EU member state.

On a rare, and unannounced, visit to the home of the U.S. military's prison for terror suspects, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis offered a pep talk to American troops — and urged them to always be ready for war.

As Mason writes, «The global war on terror has already yielded more than ten thousand survivable traumatic brain injuries to American troops.»

Based on a rather astounding true story, this comedy - drama centres on two stoners who landed a massive defence contract with the American government to sell arms for the War on Terror.

«American Sniper» wants to have it both ways — as a war - on - terror fantasy and poignant PTSD drama — but while it doesn't shy away from the physical and psychological horrors of battle, the movie is so heavy on pro-military propaganda that it doesn't realize its dramatic potential until it's too late.

As the American presence in Pakistan comes to an end, with no indication of inroads made or missions accomplished, the War on Terror once again becomes a function of flawed, human choices, constrained by the fact that our departure isn't «peace with honor.»

IFC Films «sister company Sundance Selects picked up mountain climbing doc «The Summit» and war - on - terror film «Dirty Wars,» while The Weinstein Company «s VOD shingle Radius acquired the rapturously - received «Twenty Feet From Stardom,» which focuses on back - up singers, and HBO Films took North American TV rights to «Pussy Riot — A Punk Prayer.»

It's important to note the terror of Stauffenberg's young children as good ol' American steel starts raining down on them, less because Valkyrie is any sort of revisionist history than because the casualties of even popular wars are something the Bush II administration was loathe to address.

Effortlessly shifting between genres (a musical with Jersey Boys earlier this year, now a war movie) and producing work at a pace more prolific than filmmakers half his age, American Sniper is his latest entry in a series of character studies that examine the shifting psychosis of America and its War On Terrwar movie) and producing work at a pace more prolific than filmmakers half his age, American Sniper is his latest entry in a series of character studies that examine the shifting psychosis of America and its War On TerrWar On Terror.

What can another film about American malfeasance in its War on Terror add to our knowledge and disapproval?

The «war on terror» is a misnomer because the vast majority of Americans don't live in terror of a foreign enemy; Americans of color, though, have always lived and still live in terror of racial violence, some of it from our own government (i.e. police).

In this collection 10 years in the making, Sentilles writes an impressionistic narrative of the relationship between violence and art from American slavery to the War on Terror.

1971 Termination of gold / dollar convertability 1973 - 74 Oil crisis 1974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act 1979 Volcker appointed chairman of Federal Reserve 1980 - 82 Early 80s Recession 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 1987 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act 1989 - 92 End of the Cold War 1990 Budget Enforcement Act 1990 - 92 Early 90s Recession 1992 Presidential Election 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1994 Midterm Elections 1995 - 96 Government Shutdown 1997 Balanced Budget and Taxpayer Relief Act 2001 Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2003 Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2001 - present War on Terror 2007 - 09 Financial Crisis 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The legendary American Humane Rescue program has been involved in nearly every major relief effort over the past 100 years, including World War I when they rescued wounded horses on the battlefields of Europe, the Great Ohio Flood of 1937, Pearl Harbor, Hurricane Katrina, the eruption at Mount Saint Helens, the terror attacks on 9/11, the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, Superstorm Sandy, the killer tornadoes in Joplin and Oklahoma, the Louisiana and West Virginia floods, and the Tennessee wildfires.

But even though Day for Night has its share of politically charged works — with American artists like Nari Ward, Dash Snow, Matthew Day Jackson, Jamal Cyrus, Robert A. Pruitt, and Dawolu Jabari Anderson offering overt criticism of nationalism, the war on terror, manifest destiny, and racism — a general preoccupation with art history undermines the exhibition's transgressive potential, rendering it a series of academic exercises.

George Friedman, in his book The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century, discloses America's «unnatural secret» to a primarily American audience: the «War on Terror» makes absolutely no strategic or military sense.

Metcalf writes: «In a time of porous borders, drug cartels, alien smuggling, human trafficking, immigration fraud, and a still - raging War on Terror, gamed numbers conceal risk to national security and compromise to American neighborhoods.