Interviews > Marcus Nispel

Goodreads | 10 Questions with James Ellroy

Steampunking Technology | Print Article | Newsweek.com

Rushkoff on his new alternate reality game – Boing Boing

Serendipity: Leon “Whitey” Thompson, “Last Train to Alcatraz.”(1988)

LAist Interview: Bob Zmuda - LAist

Interview with Director Werner Herzog - TIME

Jaiden’s Weaver

The Great Game Designer Boing Boing

Leon Thompson — wrote of Alcatraz

Werner Herzog Q&A – News – Film – Time Out London

A candid chat with Ira Glass | NewsHouse

Fitzgerald, Hemingway And The Sun Also Rises LiteraryTraveler.com

BME: Tattoo, Piercing and Body Modification News » Lead Story » Working-Class Cyborg

Beatles: Rock Band – The fabricated four

Interviews > Patton Oswalt: Big Fan

Celebrating John Fante « Zócalo Public Square

With a Little Help: Can You Hear Me Now? – 12/7/2009 – Publishers Weekly

(all articles read via the wonderful instapaper)

Recently the Hammer Museum, as part of their Hammer Conversations series hosted an event titled Patriots for Profit: The Rise of the Corporate Warrior. The event included an appearance by a personal hero of mine Robert Young Pelton.

Coincidentally, while listening to some episodes of NPR’s Fresh Air, I discovered two interviews on the the same topics. Namely, military contractors (Blackwater, Executive Outcomes, etc.) and the healthcare issues and treatments of those issues of non-military / civilian contractors and sub-contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The latter of the two conversations was especially interesting, as it attempts to answer questions about how we treat Americans who have been in conflict zones like Iraq and Afghanistan, possibly injured, but did not serve as military personnel. Also fascinating is the question of health coverage, and who takes care of the people that may have incurred injuries while contracted by US military.

While the conversation is not currently available via the Hammer’s podcast, I assume that it will be up soon.

The Blackwater conversation can be heard here, as can the discussion with journalist T. Christian Miller, author of Disposable Army on civilian contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan can be heard here.

UPDATE:

The video as well as the podcast download for the Corporate Warrior’s podcast can be found at the Hammer’s Watch+Listen site.

The always fantastic English Russia has done it again. They’ve compiled a fantabulous photo essay of what I consider one of WWII most fascinating events; the Leningrad blockage.

The Leningrad Blockade is also known sometimes known as the Siege of Leningrad [wiki].