“There is nothing more wicked, more disastrous, more widely destructive, more deeply tenacious, more loathsome.” “…once war has been declared, then all the affairs of the State are at the mercy of the appetites of…
In the face of so much bad shit going on right now — even another US theater of war in Libya — the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan is taking a deep-back seat on the runaway…
“There is a distance, a veil between us.” — ‘All Quiet On The Western Front,’ Erich Maria Remarque (Illustration found here). War as waged nowadays — slipshod and way-unnecessary — kills in ways way-beyond the…
In war, the crazed bull is sometimes left alone in the china shop. (Illustration found here). As the US attempts to wind down its horrible fiasco in Iraq, some mindless and numbing details have been…
Just as the new year began, the US war machine’s ultimate killing device reportedly nailed 19 people in Pakistan where drones kept hovering in the skies all most all the day long creating panic and…
The US and its nit-witted NATO allies should pack up and leave Afghanistan right now — right here and now. And this terrible incident might be a major culprit (among a shitload of others). From the…
The most-modern gadfly in the ointment of nefarious US governmental operations, WikiLeaks, dropped another load of classified documents into the vast media mainstream on Sunday, labeling this batch, “CableGate,” as the doco-dump is more than…
Veteran’s Day 2010 — A continuing, seemingly-never ending festival of sad. (Illustration found here). Adieu to a Soldier — Walt Whitman Adieu O soldier, You of the rude campaigning, (which we shared,) The rapid march,…
In a conflict that’s moving quickly from mismanaged to just plain foolish, Afghanistan is seeing a spike in civilian deaths, especially in the southern part of the country where US and NATO troops are attempting,…
From Jason Ditz at antiwar.com: NATO is scrambling to do damage control tonight after a number of weekend incidents led to the deaths of Afghan civilians, including several children. US troops killed two civilians, including…