War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
From President Obama’s lips to boots on the ground. Word came Sunday night:Â Escalation — 35,000 more troops for the Afghan meat-grinder. And the first batch, 9,000 Marines for Helmand province, will leave as soon as Obama opens his mouth Tuesday at West Point, an event creating a most-strange and ironic circumstance for a snow-job —…
Some serious shit: “Tony Blair and George Bush at Camp David in February 2001 where they discovered they both used Colgate toothpaste.” And they loved war games, much to the peril of the planet. These two terrifying clowns are together again — part-and-parcel of an UK inquiry into British shenanigans in the US-led nefarious run-up…
(Illustration found here). A new satellite-based study published Sunday in Nature Geoscience indicates the supposedly more-stable East Antarctic ice sheet has as been losing 57 billion tons of ice bulk a year since 2006. From the BBC on the report: “We felt surprised to see this change in East Antarctica,” study leader Jianli Chen from the Centre…
The Iraqi saga is a horror-eyed bristle of lies. In the run-up to the invasion, all kinds of fear-mongering lies created a sense of urgency, which quickly evaporated when those woeful tales of woe were shot-to-bits by reality. We’re familiar with George Jr. and Dick Cheney’s intentional falsehoods — “deliberately painting a picture to the American…
One of the great turds of the US political system, Sen. James Inhofe, yes, that silly-assed Republican from Oklahoma, displayed a most-marvelous bit of horror-irony this week as he tweaked the future and all those to come after us. Inhofe is a major big-mouth-crybaby global-warming denier — appears a fairly ignorant man. And with the Copenhagen climate…
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.” — Mark Twain’s Notebook, 1902-1903 Writing in this modern age is still the same as in Twain’s day, only quicker…
In one of the most outlandish public elections in recent memory, the government of Afghanistan has re-installed itself on a pile of criminal corruption so putrid even an idiot can smell it a mile away. Despite all the cuddling, a hard-serious fact remains: “Right now 85 percent of the government is corrupt,” said Ahmed Shah Lumar,…
Instead of George Jr.’s arrogant rant: “I want justice,” he said after a meeting at the Pentagon, where 188 people were killed last Tuesday when an airliner crashed into the building. “And there’s an old poster out West that says, ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive.’ “ We should follow Andy Borowitz’s reporting: In a bold new…
While eyes of just about everybody are on Afghanistan’s potboiler of a national election, a mutinous DOD without a clue and a rising death toll there of US troops, Iraq has become one of those horrific, malignant gifts that keeps on giving. On Monday, there was considered “light violence” in Iraq — two US GIs died from…
Home is not the castle so trumped years ago — now it’s nothing more than a file in the immoral portfolio of US banking’s financial system. A system that’s so skewed you can’t tell the front door from the back. McClatchy has another story on that ugly, nasty piece of shit called Goldman Sachs. Goldman…