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    > In a shop in Phomsavan... recycled shells are offered for sale as containers. #NikWheeler
    ...
    > ...Most Lao are subsistence farmers.

    The "most bombed per capita" people in the world are "defenseless peasants" in the 1970s words of #ChomskyAndHerman in #PEHR #AfterTheCataclysm.. #SubsistenceFarmers, I wonder when this term came into use? I'm guessing after the 70s...
    apjjf.org/russell-ciochon/3171

    #Phomsavan #Laos #ShellCasings #UXO

  2. > The hypocrisy and sheer silliness of much political commentary.. is.. remarkable..the.. absurdity.. the Wall Street Journal deriding the “simple-minded myths” that “the problems in Indochina stem from things like American imperialism and its military-industrial complex” (editorial, 31 August 1978). Such phrases as “American imperialism,” ordinarily under a strict taboo, are occasionally permitted in such contexts as these...
    #ChomskyAndHerman #PEHR #PEHR1 #AmericanImperialism #USAimperialism