Af-Pak Woes-Begotten
January 28, 2011In the last couple of years, the US foreign take on the disaster in Afghanistan is to junk on another acronym, ‘Af-Pak,’ in an apparent effort to link Pakistan with the war being lost in…
Author Archives: Bruce Maulden
Pound for Dollar
January 27, 2011The Brits feel the ugly pinch of wasted economics: The UK economy shrank by a shock 0.5% in the last quarter of 2010 as Britain’s recovery from recession faltered. … Economists said the first estimate…
War as Lie
January 26, 2011State of the propaganda of the US war machine. (Illustration found here). Paul Nash (1889-1946) created the above artwork in oil, titled: “We Are Making a New World.” And Nash had a horror epiphany while…
News Dump
January 25, 2011One wonders at the wonder of technology. I moved last weekend — on Friday transferred the power and gas, and the telephone, to the new address (just a couple of blocks from the old one)…
Tony’s ‘Blank Cheque’
January 21, 2011Tony Blair’s speech before the UK’s House of Commons, March 18, 2003: “It will determine the way in which Britain and the world confront the central security threat of the 21st century, the development of…
Un-Fright the Frightners
January 20, 2011Fright Friday: John McCain ratcheted-up national apprehension when on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, he named Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, blubbering: “She’s got the grit, integrity, good sense and fierce devotion to…
Blog Block
January 19, 2011(Illustration found here). Rare for me to not find a specific subject to write about in the early morning — in fact, it’s usually the exact opposite as there’s so much weird shit happening all…
War, Lies and Death
January 18, 2011Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, wrote in 1993 that in the last century (the 20th, if you don’t remember) 167 million to 175 million men, women and children had their “lives deliberately extinguished…
Krugman at 4 AM — Reality Bites
January 17, 2011As the GOP pulls his head out of the ass of dumb, they seem ready to crush that horror of President Obama’s health care reform — as Republicans dub it, “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care…
Kill Thee One Another
January 16, 2011(Illustration found here). This country is in a shotgun-wedding to strange disaster. From Reuters: A victim of last week’s Arizona shooting rampage was arrested on Saturday and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation after threatening…