War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
A shitload of stuff the US says and then does is an outright lie, or at best, a stance hidden behind a forest of double-standards. Case in full point: Cluster bombs. These little bits of long-term horror have been used repeatedly by all the world’s military since the Russians introduced the Germans to its capabilities…
Hats off to the most-excellent news site, thinkprogress.org for noting yesterday of Decider George’s blatant use of the most-forked of tongues. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki blurted out some heavy words to a meeting of Arab ambassadors in the United Arab Emirates Monday morning about how time is coming nigh for the US to gather…
One of our most-favorite of Iraq peoples is the Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr. Beyond looking like a way-sedated Jack Black with a beard, Moqtada carries enormous political clout, and also has the armed capability to back up the rhetoric, attributes in a country not a real country anymore, but now a series of cells…
Celebrate the horror of what US children are doing this holiday: Miller ran with the Marines he was with to the scene of the attack. “As I ran I saw human pieces…a skull cap with hair, bone shards,” he told IPS during a telephone interview from the so-called Green Zone in Baghdad. “When we arrived…
A category here at Compatible Creatures is Orwellian — a sort which in recent days seems to aptly fit. The word’s very image represents a malignant, manipulative and repressive entity in a position of power, including the power to control reality. Coined from a book by UK writer, Eric Arthur Blair, writing under the way-now-famous-name…