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Stepping away from this hellsite, probably permanently. This profile will remain as a placeholder. I'm active on FB and Insta, for the latest pub news. Been fun, X (not really, lol).
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J.G.P. MacAdam
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J.G.P. MacAdam
@jgp_macadam
Author. Veteran. Zombi-person. Asst Substack Editor @consequenceforum. Orange-striped cats are my spirit animal. 🐈
Hood River, OR Katılım Mart 2019
210 Takip Edilen162 Takipçiler
This is one I thought @jonstewart might be interested in: the almost 100 yrs of activism behind the benefits that veterans use every day...
consequenceforum.substack.com/p/the-original…
#Veteran #veteranbenefits #va #theva #bonusarmy #voteforvets #burnpit #valoan #vahomeloan #gibill
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3 years, 4 rewrites, and over 50 rejections later, my strange, telling, 10,000-word, multiyear saga of an American firebase out in the Tangi Valley of Afghanistan—1st written in July '21 on the eve of the fall of Kabul—is out TODAY! 🥳🙏
a.co/d/1RCi1f5
@EmergeJournal
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@jgp_macadam reflects on the ongoing tensions in the Middle East through the reading of Delphine Minoui's "I'm Writing You From Tehran"
The Book Review That Wasn't, by @ConsequenceF open.substack.com/pub/consequenc…
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NOW AVAILABLE: THE TIME GOLEM by Seth Schindler, ELJ’s most recent Afternoon Short. “Deftly blending elements of religion, mysticism, and folklore, this unique story brings the esoteric to the world of pop culture in a finale that is deeply moving.” ✔️it. amazon.com/dp/194161776X?…
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@AdrianBonenber1 Hey, I get the counteroffensive's newsletter in my inbox! Indepth reporting 👍
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👍🤟🫣 Today, I had a new short story published at Lethal Minds Journal 👀 📖 🙏
Big thanks to the editorial team at Lethal Minds for their guidance and for keeping a lit journal like this going. 🙏
"The Distance"
lethalmindsjournal.substack.com/p/lethal-minds…
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I spent the better part of 2 years of my life in Iraq. 4,492 U.S. other service members didn’t come home. ~200,000 Iraqi died. All over a nuclear program that was a deception Saddam had been running to try and deter Iran from striking after the Iran-Iraq War ended. We fell for it
Gokul Sahni@Gokul_Sahni
‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq’ (2024) by Steve Coll is a great read. Saddam, obviously, was a murderous despot who misunderstood geopolitics. But it is hard to not see epic American mistakes at play here. (1/22)
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@Gokul_Sahni I just read about the CIAs involvement with the Shah of Iran (Western friendly, but became deeply unpopular at home, which led to 1979 revolt) and I'm like are most of the problems today in the Middle East b/c of the effin CIA playing puppeteer with other people's goverments???
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“Two decades on, there are many additional and important Iraqi perspectives on the invasion and its aftermath, but in measuring the interests of the United States, Bush’s decision still looks like a catastrophe.” 22/22
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‘The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the origins of America’s invasion of Iraq’ (2024) by Steve Coll is a great read. Saddam, obviously, was a murderous despot who misunderstood geopolitics. But it is hard to not see epic American mistakes at play here. (1/22)
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@UncleWillie @JackMurphyRGR This. It's what makes me wonder if it's more brand marketing at this point than actual vets. Most vets I served with are chill people focused on their jobs their families remembering hiking hunting whatever, not on their super bro product placement during election season
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@JackMurphyRGR The internet is so full of "Angry Vet's" making vague threats it's become a meme. PTSD should be a diagnosis, not an identity and a lifestyle choice.
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The angry military veteran schtick is so 2010. It comes across desperate, sad, and lonely in 2024. Your war is over soldier. Time to come home, otherwise you become a parody of yourself.
Mac William Bishop@MacWBishop
[Jennifer Aniston posts about voting] VetBro Coffee Co: This is exactly the same as when Van Straubenzee's companies from the 52nd Foot bayoneted sleeping Continental dragoons in New Jersey in 1778. THE REDCOATS WILL NEVER DEFEAT US!
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I don't think America can untangle its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from Christian militarism, secular as we sometimes like to think we are
Rozina Ali@rozina_ali
For @nybooks, I reviewed a book about Evangelical Christian missionaries who sought to convert Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11 nybooks.com/articles/2024/…
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Friends, Romans, countrymen! For the first time in the lifetime of our press, we have a 100% functioning, interlinked, working, finished, amazing book catalog! No more hopping between multiple sites! Come, see the beauty! (And please buy a book!)
altcurrentpress.com/books
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"Ghost stories serve only the living. They transmute specific tragedies into universal lessons, and in the process, give us a way to make sense of a changing world."
@efriend on the North Carolina myth of Lydia and how folklore evolves over generations: longreads.com/2024/10/29/lyd…
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(1/2) On Oct. 28, 1951, Lt. Lloyd Burke, with the 1st Cavalry Division, earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Korean War. Burke led his men on a charge up a hill, knocking out several enemy positions and, although wounded, killed approximately 100 enemy soldiers.
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Three times the moderator had to ask Trump and Harris about Afghanistan in the presidential debate before they used it to attack the other: "The world’s superpower had, in the end, dropped Afghanistan as swiftly and wholeheartedly as it had picked it up."
bit.ly/3AeqLvS
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