Tag Archives: Afghanistan

Afghan Agony: Twisted-Empty Videwpoints

August 20, 2021

Latest installments of the Afghan-disaster chronicles this Friday afternoon, and how fast the week when shit happens. A cascade of events, going from reality to denial. One note of the extreme measures of getting to…

Collateral Day On Mars — Afghan Edition

August 20, 2021

Another brown-tinted environment this mid-day Friday here in California’s Central Valley, painted with way-faded yellow sunshine, mingled in with a thin-overcast layer of a hazel-colored sky. Air-breathing outside literally sucks: Our region still looks like…

Gen. Milley On Afghan Army Disintegration: No One ‘Predicted A Security Force Of 300,000 Would Evaporate In 11 Days’

August 18, 2021

Brown tint to the air this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, and with it a most-definite scent of burnt wood in the small breeze wafting about in the trees — fire is for…

Robots And Republicans And A ‘Helicopter Full Of Cash’

August 17, 2021

Some news be good today: Rescuers on Tuesday pulled 16 people out alive from rubble in Brefèt, a town in Les Cayes in the Southern department, three days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area,…

Enigma Of Collective Soul Shines On HG Wells — ‘A Neighbor From Another World Residing In A Jar’

August 17, 2021

As this Tuesday morning is a nasty news day already — between Afghanistan and COVID the shit’s in the fire. And to somewhat lessen the shit-fall, a post of mystery for all of us living…

Afghan Agony: Media Madness

August 16, 2021

(Illustration: ‘The Three Amigos‘ — Dick Cheney, GW Bush, Donald Rumsfeld — found here). Afghanistan continues to flame the news cycle into the afternoon — and the shit in the airwaves is poor. History and…

Afghan Agony: Final Scream

August 15, 2021

Quick pace of the end game was astonishing — banner headlines at news outlets this Sunday afternoon: ‘Afghan Government Falls‘ (CNN); ‘Afghanistan Falls To Taliban‘ (The Washington Post); ‘Taliban Seize Afghanistan; US Scrambles To Evacuate…

Afghan Agony: Exit Includes Maybe A Massacre Or Two

August 14, 2021

In the wake of shitty domestic American fanfare — COVID surges thanks to Republican hardcore hardheadedness — the sad, shame of Afghanistan continues to unfold badly, an image of a country shattering like glass when…

Afghan Agony: The Art Of Tragedy

August 8, 2021

(Illustration by Afghan artist/activist Jahan Ara Rafi, and found here). Looking beyond the domestic shitstorms this Sunday afternoon of COVID Deltas surges and corresponding displays of cruel ignorance by Republicans, the horrible debacle of Afghanistan…