links for 2010-11-07

In an interview with ThinkProgress, Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 “for her efforts for democracy and human rights,” said an attack on Iran “would give the government an excuse to kill all of its political opponents, as was done during the Iran-Iraq war.” For this reason, Ebadi suggested that the Iranian government probably “wouldn’t mind the U.S. throwing a missile at them.”

While I appreciate that this game is trying to realistically depict the human cost of war, something that most war video games fail or don't even attempt to do, you can't overlook the blatant fact that Homefront is exploiting American anxieties and fears of foreign powers. Especially when they take the shape of an evil Asian man holding a machine gun. This part, however, was kind of interesting: