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Janet McIntosh

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When Cruelty Seems Like a Joke

I felt a familiar chill reading reports last week that ICE agents in Colorado have been leaving “death cards”—Ace of Spades cards custom-printed...

18.02.2026 20

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Janet McIntosh

Necropolitics and the Language of Death: How Military Talk Turns Recruits Into Killers

Night after night, the buses pull up on the tarmac outside the Parris Island Marine Corps recruit training center in South Carolina. Usually, they...

11.09.2025 10

CounterPunch

Janet McIntosh