Uncle Quinn's Bathroom Book, Part Duex
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Fight Club, Pretty Woman and an Israeli Spy
Fight Club is a cult classic, but did you know that the man who produced it—along with Pretty Woman, The Revenant, Heat, and L.A. Confidential—was a high-level Israeli spy?
The Blood in Your Battery: The Human Cost of the Green Revolution
Muntosh was six years old when he watched the earth swallow his brother.
The Ghost of the Mediterranean: Why History Forgot Carthage
For centuries, the Mediterranean was not a Roman lake; it was a Carthaginian one. Long before the first Roman legionary set foot outside of Italy, the city-state of Carthage—located in the heart of the North Africa—had built a maritime empire that functioned with the precision of a modern corporation and the power of a superpower. Yet, while every scho…
The Story of Alex Odeh
History is often taught as a series of political shifts and borders on a map, but the true history of Palestine is written in the lives of its people. For over 75 years, there have been thousands of stories—thousands of real individuals with families, dreams, and favorite songs who were suddenly turned into ghosts. They were fathers who didn’t return fr…
The Lost Battle for Peace
America wasn’t always a global power waging war all over the world; in fact, many early Americans were far more isolationist. You might even be surprised to learn that during the 1930s, there was a massive, grassroots movement to strip the corporate-beholden politicians in Washington of their power to declare war entirely, handing that life-and-death d…
A Comparison of Iran and the US
The US is waging yet another relentless campaign of “bringing Freedom and Democracy” by dropping 2000 pound bombs on a distant land that most Americans know nothing about and couldn’t find on a map. The salivating politicians and the lapdog media has convinced us that this is necessary and these backward savages need to be destroyed for the good of hum…
The Big Uneasy: In All Likelihood, New Orleans Will Be Underwater by 2045
Did you know that the ocean takes over a football field size piece of New Orleans every 2 hours? There's nothing that can stop the world's best colonizer, and by 2045, Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop on Bourbon Street will have fish and octopus swimming up to the bar for a Purple Voodoo.
THERE’S A FUCKING MCDONALD’S ON EVERY CORNER... AND FOUR TIMES AS MANY GUN DEALERS.
We have been conditioned to believe that the Golden Arches are the ultimate symbol of American ubiquity. We use the phrase "on every corner" to describe the reach of global giants like McDonald’s, Starbucks, or Subway. We think of them as the most pervasive entities in our landscape—the landmarks we can’t escape.
Aspirin & Auschwitz, The Monsters at Bayer Pharmaceuticals
I remember that yellow and brown aspirin bottle in the medicine cabinet from when I was a kid....Bayer... We learned to rely on that anytime we had aches and pains and it was in every household. Little did we know that they were fucking Nazis.... That's right.... They experimented on people in the concentration camps! It was under a different name of c…
Imagine if Anthony Bourdain Saw Palestine Now.
In 2014, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) held its 23rd Annual Media Awards in Los Angeles. They honored Anthony Bourdain with the "Voice of Courage and Conscience" award. While Bourdain was often decorated—winning Peabodys and Emmys—this specific honor recognized the moral weight of his work in a region where most American media figures feared …
Hand Sanitizer is for Losers
If you’ve spent the last few years living like a human version of a Ziploc bag—constantly misting yourself with 70% isopropyl alcohol and side-eyeing anyone who touches a doorknob—it’s time for a reality check. While you’ve been busy trying to achieve “operating room” levels of sterility in your living room, your immune system has been at home on the co…
The Founders of Israel were Terrorists... Really.
History is often scrubbed clean by the victors, but the archives of the British Mandate tell a darker, more violent story than the polished narratives of national liberation usually permit. To call the founders of Israel “freedom fighters” is a convenient retrospective grace. In the 1940s, they were something else entirely: cold-blooded militants who ut…
No, America Was Never a Christian Country
The modern debate over America’s “Christian roots” usually collapses into two camps: those who claim we were founded as a Bible-based theocracy, and those who claim the Founders were secret atheists. Both are wrong.