British ‘Civil War’ Director Alex Garland Disses America: ‘Nobody Is Exceptional’
Alex Garland, the British director of the upcoming A24 movie “Civil War,” has a few choice words for anyone who believes in the concept of American exceptionalism.

Alex Garland, the British director of the upcoming A24 movie “Civil War,” has a few choice words for anyone who believes in the concept of American exceptionalism.
AUSTIN, Texas — “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s election-year provocation, debuted Thursday at the SXSW Film and TV Festival, unveiling a violent vision of a near-future America at war with itself.
John Singleton Mosby, one of the main characters of this story, 161 years ago this week conducted what is considered the perfect special operation.
Indie studio A24 is preparing an April release of its provocative film “Civil War” and the movie is already provoking fierce debate from all sides of the political spectrum even as details on its plot are still sparse.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley responded in the affirmative to radio host and author Charlamagne tha God when he asked if she felt “stupid” after she failed to identify slavery as a cause of the Civil War in December.
Sara Haines told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that “you just need to have woken up and come out of the vagina” to know slavery was the cause of the Civil War while discussing GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is drawing criticism from her primary opponents and other prominent conservatives after she was asked what caused the Civil War in the United States and failed to mention slavery in her word salad response at an event in New Hampshire Wednesday night.
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on Thursday blamed a “Democrat plant” for a question about what caused the Civil War. The presidential candidate neglected to include “slavery” in her list of reasons.
Nikki Haley has come under fire for issuing a word-salad response when asked why America fought in the Civil War.
Ethiopia on Tuesday became the third African nation in three years to default on its sovereign debt, following Zambia and Ghana.
The states of California and Maine are now exploring options to keep former President Trump off their respective state ballots.
The movement to jail former President Donald Trump could lead the United States towards a “Civil War-like split”, Nigel Farage has warned.
The United Nations said on Tuesday that the situation in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” as food and medicine run out.
Voice of America News (VOA) reported on Tuesday that while the international community is nervously monitoring the brutal war between factions of the Sudanese junta and scrambling to deal with the ensuing humanitarian disaster, Communist China is moving full speed ahead with plans to “advance its own interests” in Sudan’s oil and mineral resources.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told Breitbart News that he “made lemonade out of lemons” after CNN host Don Lemon was ousted from the company on the heels of a heated exchange with the candidate last week, which reportedly left executives vexed.
A nuclear-armed Russia “cannot lose” the current war, and any ceding of territory would lead to a “civil war,” according to Russian ultra-right ideologue Alexander Dugin, also known as “Putin’s brain” and “the most dangerous philosopher in the world,” who described the West as the “source of absolute evil.”
Tuesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Hannity,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) downplayed the desire to see a “civil war” that some interpreted from his “national divorce” remarks.
CLAIM: On Wednesday Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said, “We have more people in America that have died in my short lifetime due to gun violence than in every single one of our wars.” VERDICT: False.
Elon Musk has been criticised for describing outlandish Russian predictions of the United States and European Union collapsing and a Fourth Reich rising in Germany and going to war with France as “epic” on Twitter, before clarifying that he regarded them as “absurd”.
Apple TV+ shared a trailer for the historical drama “Emancipation” featuring Will Smith.
Radio shock jock Howard Stern turned up the temperature this week when he openly hinted at a second Civil War if Republican Herschel Walker claims the U.S. Senate seat in Georgia.
The New York Times (NYT) reported on Saturday that the Biden administration secretly sent a team of diplomats to the Tigray region of Ethiopia last month in an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a halt to a devastating civil war that threatens to destabilize the entire Horn of Africa.
Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen, who also serves as foreign minister, devoted very little of his address to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday to discussing the brutal two-year civil war that heated up again over the past few weeks. He spent no time at all responding to the allegations of war crimes and human rights atrocities against both his government and its adversaries.
Ethiopia’s civil war between the federal government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is not the only deadly ethnic conflict raging in that turbulent country. On Friday, residents of the Oromiya region reported digging mass graves for at least 42 villagers slaughtered by a rival tribal militia.
The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), an Ethiopian insurgent militant group, claimed on Thursday that Ethiopian federal forces and allied Eritrean troops launched a “massive four-pronged offensive” against the northwestern part of the Tigray region.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Thursday that the government of his native Ethiopia is blocking him from sending money to or even communicating with family in the blockaded Tigray region, lamenting, “I don’t even know who is dead or who is alive.”
The government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the nation’s former ruling party now functioning as a rebel militia, confirmed that a truce that began in March had broken with major hostilities erupting on Tuesday.
The news agency Reuters, citing anonymous sources, reported on Tuesday leftist President Joe Biden is considering resuming offensive weapons sales to Saudi Arabia in anticipation of his visit to the country, scheduled for Friday.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The heavily armed men appeared around the small farming village in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, frightening residents already on edge after recent clashes between government troops and rebels.
A former U.N. employee alleged on Tuesday that the Ethiopian government intentionally prevented its representatives from declaring an official famine last year in the country’s northern Tigray region, which has been devastated by Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war, the media platform Devex reported.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a joint report on Wednesday in which they alleged Ethiopia’s federal government has perpetrated “ethnic cleansing … crimes against humanity and war crimes” in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region as part of a civil war between Addis Ababa and the separatist militia known as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
No food from international aid groups has entered northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region since Addis Ababa and Tigrayan separatists announced a truce — specifically to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Tigray — in their civil war on March 25, World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.
Ethiopia’s 16-month-long civil war observed a ceasefire on Friday after separatist militants from Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region agreed to a “cessation of hostilities” proposed by Addis Ababa 24 hours earlier to allow humanitarian aid delivery to Ethiopia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday demanding his administration issue an assessment of accusations of genocide against the government of Ethiopia and demanding Biden do more to address the brutal civil war in that country.
Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party (PP) recently dismissed 2,574 officials from leadership positions as part of a major political reshuffle amid Ethiopia’s ongoing civil war, the Addis Standard reported on Wednesday.
The U.S. may be on the verge of collapse due to right-wing threats on democracy, according to a recent New York Times piece that called to intensify “war games” for scenarios concerning the 2024 presidential elections.
The “1619 Project’s” Nikole Hannah-Jones said of her failure to provide the correct year for the start of the Civil War, “It is what it is.”
There’s not going to be a Civil War. America is just fine.
Afghanistan may “descend into a civil war” if the Taliban fails to include competing factions in the country’s new government, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan told the BBC this week, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported Wednesday.
Conservative French presidential hopeful Xavier Bertrand has warned that France faces a real risk of civil war and gang violence as urban violence continues throughout the country.