By Gary Brecher
![War Nerd Newsletter #100 — Amateurs Talk Cancel, Pros Talk Silence](http://web.archive.org./web/20200819124054im_/https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/radio-war-nerd-flag-newest1-200x200.jpg)
There’s a very naïve theory of language at work here, roughly: “if people speak nicely, they’ll act nicely” — with the fatuous corollary, “If people mention bad things, they must like bad things.”
The simplest refutation of that is two words: Victorian Britain.
Victorian Britain carried out several of the biggest genocides in human history. It was also a high point of virtuous literature…
By Gary Brecher
![The War Nerd: How Many Dead Yemeni Nobodies Does It Take To Equal 1 WaPo Contributor?](http://web.archive.org./web/20200819124054im_/https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cq5dam.thumbnail.cropped.1500.844-200x200.jpg)
Republished from the Radio War Nerd subscriber newsletter. Subscribe to Radio War Nerd for podcasts, newsletters and more! The headline here is not a joke, unfortunately. It’s a question you can’t help asking if you’ve followed the war in Yemen. You probably…
By Thierry Marignac
![To Pour Ink On a Grave Again](http://web.archive.org./web/20200819124054im_/https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/20787E7C-CFDD-47AD-97EF-3296C051D323-200x200.jpeg)
Limonov & Marignac, early 1980s Paris Again, damnit! I’ve been doing this forever. Most of my friends kicked the bucket before I reached the ripe old age of 30. Addicts don’t live that long, heroin isn’t a nurturing mother, no…
By Team eXiled
![Filmsuck: a film podcast cohosted by Eileen Jones, The eXiled's infamous film critic](http://web.archive.org./web/20200819124054im_/https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Screen-Shot-2019-08-12-at-12.58.11-PM-200x200.png)
If you haven’t already, check out and subscribe to Filmsuck, a biweekly podcast about film…
By Mark Ames
![ShamiWitness: When Bellingcat & Neocons Collaborated With The Most Influential ISIS Propagandist On Twitter](http://web.archive.org./web/20200819124054im_/https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/B4uWHrSIEAA8ZFG-200x200.jpg)
Mark Ames is the co-host of the Radio War Nerd podcast. Subscribe to Radio War Nerd on Patreon. Who remembers @ShamiWitness? At the peak of ISIS’s power, @ShamiWitness stood out as the genocidal militia group’s “most influential Twitter account” according…
By Gary Brecher
![The War Nerd: Anglo-American Media Complicity in Yemen's Genocide](http://web.archive.org./web/20200819124054im_/https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/b881096318z1_20171122115221_000g8bsif3o2-0-rrdr8j401x43yugyap2_ct677x380-200x200.jpg)
We’re living through a massive artificial famine, right now. In NW Yemen, home of the Yemeni Shia who’ve fought off a Saudi-financed invasion, the “coalition” of invaders has settled on a slower, more effective strategy: artificial famine and blockade. This is how you kill off a troublesome population, not with bombs and guns alone. Hunger and disease are much better mass killers than firearms and bombs.
By Yasha Levine
![Fact-checking the Tor Project's government ties](http://web.archive.org./web/20200819124054im_/https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1-foia-tor-bbg-200x200.jpg)
I was able to obtain via FOIA roughly 2,500 pages of correspondence — including strategy sessions and contracts and budgets and status updates — between the Tor Project and its main funder, a CIA spinoff.